From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47633 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Making necessary OpenType features on by default Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20090220183922.GA10583@khaled-laptop> <499EFD12.1080808@wxs.nl> <32A3D493-4371-459B-A2DA-3B98494BD641@gmail.com> <20090222210356.GB16381@khaled-laptop> <49A2802A.3030704@wxs.nl> <20090223120906.GB7439@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235391601 28264 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2009 12:20:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:20:01 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 23 13:21:16 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbZoB-0007ZG-8i for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:21:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81DA51FC03; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:19:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21338-01-5; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:18:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20C41FBB8; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:18:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9005F1FBB8 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:18:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21338-01-4 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F11FB98 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.113]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1NCHmY7004621 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:48 +0100 Original-Received: from [87.178.102.169] (account tschmit1@uni-bonn.de HELO [192.168.0.2]) by fe2.uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.12) with ESMTPA id 12318093 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:17:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20090223120906.GB7439@khaled-laptop> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=131.220.15.113; country=DE; region=07; city=Bonn; latitude=50.7333; longitude=7.1000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.7333,7.1000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 183882875 - 15c4419aa238 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47633 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________