[XeTeX] Re: Re: Re: Re: Fontspec feature request?

[Suki Venkat, [TnQ]]

> >I myself can't make out why the LaTeX one is better (I will happy if
> >somebody could explain that). 
> 
> It's a font design issue. The TeX-based braces have a modulated stroke
> (it goes thin and thick in different places). Scaling in one direction
> will distort the thick-thin relationships, scaling uniformly will effect
> the color (apparent blackness on the page). Your scaled fences started
> life as a monoline, but some vertical distortion is now apparent. 
> 
> Knuth really did know what he was doing when he designed TeX/Computer Modern.
> 
> But I'm sure you know all that, as a typesetting professional.

 Thanks Adam!
Yes I can see how it distorts the thick-thin relation-ship but I am
surprised by the reduction in blackness. I was thinking that only the
curves outlining the font gets stretched; didn't know that the blackness
reduces -  I suppose \scalebox{#}[#]{\includegraphics{*}} that I used
treats it like a raster image and not as vector. Is there any other way
in LaTeX to scale a font vertically like a vector?


Suki