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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Suresh Govindachar via texhax wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:bcf1b77c-8fe9-e8c5-6dea-2e2839914521@yahoo.com">Does
XeTeX make it easy to select entire fonts-families or to select
only fonts leaving it up to the type-setter to define files
similar to fontsize.tex linked above?<br>
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Just the latter, Suresh. Personally I would regard
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tug.ctan.org/info/tex-primer_vms-specific/fontsize.tex">http://tug.ctan.org/info/tex-primer_vms-specific/fontsize.tex</a> as
very primitive — from my perspective I would use \csname ...
\endcsname rather than hand-code all those control sequences, and I
would also want to be able to use fonts at the size I decide
(frequently fractional) rather than at a small sub-set of all the
possible integral sizes. What XeTeX allows is very sophisticated,
in that for any font one can specify colour (sadly only in RGB),
emboldening, extension, letter-spacing, slant, script and mapping,
quite apart from its ability to make use OpenType features such as
small caps, etc. What TeX can do with fonts is very limited — what
XeTeX can do with fonts is quite remarkable.<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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