From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8954 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt and expert fonts Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:10:40 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020808090604.0338ff20@server-1> References: <3978810.1028738892491.JavaMail.cpadmin@nassol01.mcs.muohio .edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399319 31906 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:55:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:55:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Bruce D'Arcus" In-Reply-To: <3978810.1028738892491.JavaMail.cpadmin@nassol01.mcs.muohio .edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8954 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------