From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CF1C62B3-DF31-4CB4-A4C2-C23CB8EBEB51@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090223120906.GB7439@khaled-laptop>
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> For scaling, we can specify a size, some thing like:
>
> \setupbodyfont[arabic=foo,20pt,latin=bar,18pt]
>
> or so.
I don't know Arabic, but I've done similar things for Greek, and that
is not a good interface. You want a scaling factor, so users won't
have to worry about scaling in footnotes, titles, etc., an absolute
size is not a viable alternative.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-23 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 18:39 Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 18:57 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 19:31 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-20 21:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 21:23 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-20 22:10 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 22:26 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-21 23:53 ` Karl Berry
2009-02-20 20:23 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 22:07 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 22:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-21 15:58 ` Ilda Khaki
2009-02-23 10:58 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-21 13:05 ` Otared Kavian
2009-02-22 21:03 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-22 22:44 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-23 12:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 13:00 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 15:34 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-23 17:15 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 17:56 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2009-02-23 22:51 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 23:19 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-24 20:41 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-25 2:30 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-23 10:53 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 12:09 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 12:17 ` Thomas A. Schmitz [this message]
2009-02-23 12:28 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 16:56 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 17:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-02-23 17:04 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-02-23 17:49 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 23:23 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-24 15:49 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2009-02-24 16:03 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 12:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-22 22:54 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-22 23:35 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-21 21:14 ` Otared Kavian
2009-02-23 10:42 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-23 12:25 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 12:46 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-23 12:56 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 18:58 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 20:27 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-20 22:09 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-20 22:46 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-21 11:41 ` Hans Hagen
2009-02-22 20:54 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-02-22 23:08 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2009-02-22 13:51 ` Khaled Hosny
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