using variable font

using variable font

[Herbert Voss]

Hello all,

this worked years ago with another variable font. But it
fails with FiraCode. I get always the same weight:

\definefontfeature[w300][default][axis={weight:300}]
\definefontfeature[w400][default][axis={weight:400}]
\definefontfeature[w500][default][axis={weight:500}]
\definefontfeature[w600][default][axis={weight:600}]
\definefontfeature[w700][default][axis={weight:700}]

\definefont [FiraCode@300] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w300]
\definefont [FiraCode@400] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w400]
\definefont [FiraCode@500] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w500]
\definefont [FiraCode@600] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w600]
\definefont [FiraCode@700] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w700]

\starttext

\csname FiraCode@300\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=300\par
\csname FiraCode@400\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=400\par
\csname FiraCode@500\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=500\par
\csname FiraCode@600\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=600\par
\csname FiraCode@700\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=700\par

\stoptext


the font is availabel at Google:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Code

It also fails with another variable font.

up-to-date lmtx on macOS.

thanks
Herbert
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Re: using variable font

[Hans Hagen]

On 7/1/2021 9:19 AM, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> this worked years ago with another variable font. But it
> fails with FiraCode. I get always the same weight:
> 
> \definefontfeature[w300][default][axis={weight:300}]
> \definefontfeature[w400][default][axis={weight:400}]
> \definefontfeature[w500][default][axis={weight:500}]
> \definefontfeature[w600][default][axis={weight:600}]
> \definefontfeature[w700][default][axis={weight:700}]
> 
> \definefont [FiraCode@300] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w300]
> \definefont [FiraCode@400] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w400]
> \definefont [FiraCode@500] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w500]
> \definefont [FiraCode@600] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w600]
> \definefont [FiraCode@700] [file:FiraCode-VariableFont_wght.ttf*w700]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \csname FiraCode@300\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=300\par
> \csname FiraCode@400\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=400\par
> \csname FiraCode@500\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=500\par
> \csname FiraCode@600\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=600\par
> \csname FiraCode@700\endcsname  FiraCode, weight=700\par
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> the font is availabel at Google:
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Code
> 
> It also fails with another variable font.
> 
> up-to-date lmtx on macOS.

looks like a cache issue but there is also somethign else (with these 
variable fonts one needs to run into an instance that actually uses one 
of these fuzzy features)

i'll fix it

Hans



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