From: "Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: rule beneath chapter number
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:02:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d997203e-48d3-f6b8-7f52-a054f2da6b52@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59CB4E1D-BD36-437B-8D58-586270351EDB@fiee.net>
On 11/12/21 18:13, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> You’re right, tabular numbers are nonproportional. I meant versal (“normal”) numbers in opposite of oldstyle (mediaeval) numbers.
I think there are two mutually exclusive feature pairs that you're
mixing up:
lnum vs onum: lining numbers versus old style numbers; "lining" having
no descenders, but sitting on the line.
pnum vs tnum: proportional vs tabulate numbers. As the name suggests,
the latter look better where numbers are vertically aligned because each
numeral will take exactly the same space, so tables, but also footnotes
etc. The former of course will look better in running text.
Add to this that numbers can also be subscript or superscript. Some very
extensive professional fonts have surprising combinations of these
features, so in the end, one has to do what you did: fiddle with
featuresets until the result looks right.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-12 3:27 jbf via ntg-context
2021-11-12 4:49 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-11-12 5:26 ` jbf via ntg-context
2021-11-12 8:09 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-11-12 8:47 ` jbf via ntg-context
2021-11-12 17:13 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2021-11-12 18:02 ` Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context [this message]
2021-11-12 13:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
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