[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX
William F. Adams
wadams at atlis.com
Mon Apr 12 20:25:42 CEST 2004
On Monday, April 12, 2004, at 01:44 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> I'm not talking about novel fonts like Zapfino. I'm talking about
> wanting the following to "just work" without hacking:
>
> default text font = Hoefler Text with old-style figures
> table font = HT with monospaced osf
> headings = HT with lining figures
> etc.
>
> Oh, and when I use optical fonts, I want them to work automatically.
>
> There's no easy way to do this in LaTeX or ConTeXt, and there should
> be. OpenType fonts have the same issues.
OIC.
Well, yes, LaTeX (and I'm guessing the other formats) aren't
finely-grained enough in their font setups to cover this automagically.
A while back I made a suggestion on the Latex3 mailing list that
LaTeX's document preamble should be more expressive and this was one of
the things on that, something along the lines of:
> \typespecification[headings]{Univers-condensed}
> \typespecification[captions]{Univers}
> \typespecification[text, 10]{TimesTen}
> \typespecification[math]{Euler}
> \typespecification[monospace]{Courier}
Would that address something of what you're wanting?
Nice point about table text fonts wanting monospaced figures.
Once I'm done w/ my Zapfino paper and editing for TUG2003, the next
project is to work up the above to see how feasible it is as part of
creating a TeX free-font sample page for tug.org.
Long-term project is to create a typeface family which covers so much
(think Lucida Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting, Bright, Math &c.)
that a scheme for TeX support for it will encompass any and all
reasonable font usages / settings.
William
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