[XeTeX] New font to play w/ ``Arno Pro'' bundled w/ the Adobe PS CS3 beta

[Stephen Moye]

On Friday, January 05, 2007, at 08:52AM, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>On 3 Jan 2007, at 6:05 pm, Stephen Moye wrote:
>>
>> Is the new optical size naming convention breaking fontspec/XeTeX  
>> optical size selection? I've tried
>>
>> \setromanfont[OpticalSize=72]{Arno Pro}
>>
>> and this made no difference.
>>
>> Simple saying:
>>
>> \setromanfont{Arno Pro}
>>
>> seems to select either a small (8pt) font or a semibold -- probably  
>> the former.
>
>The former. (You can use \fontname\font to find out what was actually  
>used.)
>
>>
>> If I want the 10pt, then I have to ask for that explicitly:
>>
>> \setromanfont{Arno Pro Regular 10pt}
>
>The naming isn't the issue, but xetex's attempt to distinguish old  
>("broken") and new (correct) 'size' feature tables wasn't working for  
>this font.
>
>I have just fixed this in the TeX Live repository, so the TL2006  
>release should handle the optical sizes properly. (This will also be  
>updated in the xetex repository and "standalone" packages, once TL is  
>finished, but for right now the TL development tree has the most up- 
>to-date xetex sources.)
>
>JK

Thanks. One question -- it has been my habit to update XeTeX from your svn repository. If I should switch to the TL2006 TeX environment, should I continue to use 'svn update'?

Thanks again.

SGM