From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Selectfont: extend and slant features
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:59:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53127469.7050903@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1138F28F-83EE-48B8-ADD2-9403608A157E@gmail.com>
On 3/1/2014 12:48 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 28.02.2014 um 20:41 schrieb Joshua Krämer <joshua.kraemer@gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2014-02-26, 23:13, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> 2. When you apply your “testfeature” to a certain font alternative
>>> (e.g. italic) it will work.
>>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks. It's a bit inconvenient, because for each feature you want to
>> apply, you have to define a separate typeface. Is it a bug, or is it
>> intended to be like that?
>
> This is something only Hans can answer, what I wanted to show you is
> that the problem isn’t related to the \definefontfamily command.
you can use dynamic features so apply additional ones any moment, but
some features line slanting and extending are font instance bound as
there the dimensions change and the abckend has to do some work
>> (I understand that this feature may not be needed often. I need it to
>> apply different stretch values to a typeface I'm designing for testing
>> purposes.)
>
>
> Is there any real purpose for this feature? The letters in the second and third
> line don’t look beautiful because the horizontal and vertical strokes don’t match.
>
> \definefontfeature [wide] [extend=1.50]
> \definefontfeature [narrow] [extend=0.75]
>
> \definefontfamily [one] [serif] [Latin Modern Roman]
> \definefontfamily [two] [serif] [Latin Modern Roman] [features={default,wide}]
> \definefontfamily [three] [serif] [Latin Modern Roman] [features={default,narrow}]
>
> \definebodyfontenvironment[50pt]
>
> \starttext
>
> \switchtobodyfont[one,50pt]Stretched
>
> \switchtobodyfont[two,50pt]Stretched
>
> \switchtobodyfont[three,50pt]Stretched
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-01 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 17:18 Joshua Krämer
2014-02-26 22:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-02-28 19:41 ` Joshua Krämer
2014-03-01 11:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-03-01 23:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-03-05 14:05 ` Joshua Krämer
2014-03-05 14:19 ` Joshua Krämer
2014-03-05 14:08 ` Hans Hagen
2014-03-05 20:41 ` Joshua Krämer
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