[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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