Re: OpenType beginners question

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ulrich Dirr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've adapted the complete luatex/markiv typescript example at
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV#Opentype_features
> for FF Kievit Pro I. It works quiet nice out of the box (aaah, nomore
> fiddling with font installation!).
>
> \starttypescript [sans] [kievit]
>
>    \definefontsynonym [KievitProRegular]         [name:KievitPro-Regular]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [KievitProMedium]          [name:KievitPro-Medium]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [KievitProExtraBold]       [name:KievitPro-ExtraBold]
> [features=default]
>
>    \definefontsynonym [KievitProItalic]          [name:KievitPro-Italic]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [KievitProMediumItalic]
> [name:KievitPro-MediumItalic]    [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [KievitProExtraBoldItalic]
> [name:KievitPro-ExtraBoldItalic] [features=default]
>
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript [sans] [kievit]
>
>    \definefontsynonym [Sans]            [KievitProRegular]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]      [KievitProItalic]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansBold]        [KievitProMedium]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansSlanted]     [SansItalic]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted] [SansBoldItalic]
> [features=default]
>    \definefontsynonym [SansCaps]        [Sans]
> [features=smallcaps]
>
> \stoptypescript
>
> \definetypeface[kievit][rm][sans][kievit][default]
> \definetypeface[kievit][ss][sans][kievit][default]
> \definetypeface[kievit][tt][mono][modern]  [default][rscale=1.12]
> \definetypeface[kievit][mm][math][iwona]   [default][rscale=1.02]
>
> \setupbodyfont[kievit,ss,10pt]
>
> Now \bf \it works perfectly well but \sc doesn't. Do I need some extra
> definition?

I'm only guessing without trying:

You have

\definefontsynonym [KievitProRegular] [name:KievitPro-Regular]
[features=default]
\definefontsynonym [Sans] [KievitProRegular] [features=default]
\definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Sans] [features=smallcaps]

I suspect that "features=default" is taking precedence (ask Hans once
he's back about the phylosophy behind this mechanism). I don't say
that it should be that way, but for the moment try to define a new
font instance with "features=smallcaps" from the beginning.

Something like:

\definefontsynonym [KievitProRegularCaps] [name:KievitPro-Regular]
[features=smallcaps]

\definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [KievitProRegularCaps]

You also have \addfontfeature available where you can enable small
caps. To be honest, \sc could work without so much trickery in XeTeX
and LuaTeX (it could simply add +smcp to the current font), but
definition of \sc has not been adapted to work like that yet.

Mojca
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