Re: texfont and font mechanism

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am Sonntag, 17.08.03, um 23:58 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay:

> Actually, I discuss that in my OpenType MyWay, also... my solution is 
> to

Ok, one reason more to read it.

Instead of further research I did some diligent work
the last evenings writing a lot of typescripts that
nobody will ever need... ;-)

> define a font family for roman caps [rc] beside the roman [rm] font
> family. A change to small caps is done with \switchstyleonly[rc], so if
> you're in SerifBold, you end up in SerifCapsBold.

Good idea.
I don't really understand the family mechanism.
Can I define all "styles" like rm, ss... or is
ist limited (other than the lack of free two-
letter-combinations)?

> It ends up being memory-hungry, and probably a bit slower than other
> options, but it kinda works.

I like high level solutions, so I need always
lots of memory... ;-)

> Funny coincidence, I was looking around apostrophic labs and other free
> fonts as well, this weekend. Then I found fontsanon.com. :)

And what do you think? Better? (I'll have a look later.)
I spent some hours writing (that is, ordering and editing)
typescripts for Meade's Street family.
Don't know if I'll use it...

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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