Re: ConTeXt and expert fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:48 PM 8/7/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>OK, I've gone through all the manuals, and tried hard to figure this
>out, but obviously don't quite get the details of the font system in
>ConTeXt.
>
>I want to set up a font (like Minion, or in this case Hoefler Text) for
>use in the following way:
>
>For all tables    monospaced figures (osf or lining)
>For all headings and page numbers   proportional lining
>text  osf
>footnote markers  superiors

no big deal once i understand what osf oand/or lining is -)

>SO my basic question is: how do I do this?  I have tried to set up a
>"SerifFootnote" fontsynonym (which is to access a specially-encoded
>"footnote" font), but no matter how I try to access it, I get an
>"unknown variant" error.

can you make a minimal sample document

>More generally, there's an interesting article on using so-called "rich
>font" (like Hoefler Text, but in the future, OpenType) with TeX, in
>which the author argues that TeX macros need to take the more complex
>capabilities of these fonts into account.  A relevant excerpt
>(http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/Pubs/richfonts.ps):

hm, tugboat article, somehow missed it; quite some ugly bitmaps in there, 
and since it fails to print i ran it through distiller; interestingly 
distiller also downsamples bitmap fonts (in some modes), which is weird. 
Anyway, i'll have a look at it.

>Why not in ConTeXt then?  If one has a complete expert set of a font
>like Minion, shouldn't what I outlined above be the default behavior of
>a TeX macro system?  Once TeX supports OpenType this will become all
>the more relevant...

you can set up a lot, like fonts and conversions of numbers so it's possible,

Hans
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