From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10736 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: more on typescripts (and optical sizes) Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:28:34 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030204132721.03c61490@server-1> References: <9281934C-37C6-11D7-825B-0030657A7050@fastmail.fm> <9281934C-37C6-11D7-825B-0030657A7050@fastmail.fm> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044362748 23018 80.91.224.249 (4 Feb 2003 12:45:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: , "Bruce D'Arcus" Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18g2SQ-0005z7-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:45:47 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD8210B20; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:47:44 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE4810B1B for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:44:01 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h14ChqSJ003476; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:43:53 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h14Chsgo022756; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:43:56 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20030203234644.11957@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10736 At 11:46 PM 2/3/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote: >Hans, > >Because I'm just starting to come to grips with parts of the font >mechanism, how is this different from the mechanisms within type-siz.tex? >Is it that there is one more degree of freedom that the type-siz doesn't map? sure, take a look into font-ini and search for getglyph (see symb files for how they are used), or look into the unicode or chinese stuff; there are all kind of automatisms that scale nicely 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------