[XeTeX] \font usage

[Jonathan Kew]

On 14 May 2006, at 4:22 pm, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 15/05/2006, at 0:23 , Wlodek Bzyl wrote:
>
>>    While adapting plain.tex to Latin Modern font family I tried
>>
>> \font \X = "Latin Modern Roman/R" \X
>> Filmuj rzeź żądań, pość, gnęb chłystków!
>
> By the way, if anyone's thinking along similar lines to me, I'm
> probably adding this functionality to a LaTeX package in the near
> future. That is, loading the OpenType Latin Modern fonts by default.
>
> But it depends. Last time I checked they didn't support automatic
> optical sizes, which is kind of annoying.

Yes, AFAIK they don't have a 'size' feature. Perhaps the team could  
be persuaded to add this.

JK