[XeTeX] Package for font loading

[William F. Adams]

I've been really swamped at work, and only now getting a chance to read 
up on, d/l and look at the latest flurry of developments.

I did want to make a couple of quick comments / observations

  - Will Robertson's ``typespec'' package name --- I'm afraid that that 
name is already used on CTAN for Stephen Moye's wonderful type specimen 
package, so probably the name should be changed --- I'd suggest padding 
it out to typespecification, or perhaps changing it to ``typesystem'' 
or ``xtype'' or maybe ``ts4otaat'' (Type Specification System for 
OpenType and Apple Advanced Typography''

> I've chosen "\romanfont", "\sansfont", "\monofont" for now, but they 
> only -imply- that they are setting the default font for that style. 
> I'm fairly happy with them, but I thought I'd see if anyone had some 
> better ideas than me.
>
> Maybe "\setromanfont", etc., would be better?

I like the declarative ``setromanfont'' form better myself.

Will, you _really_ should write up an article for TUGboat once you've 
got these packages stabilized. Barbara Beeton (and Wendy McKay) and a 
lot of others would be thrilled (just as we're all thrilled to find 
that you and Jan have done so much for all of us, building on 
Jonathan's fabulous work)

William

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