[XeTeX] FontSite 500 fonts and XeTeX

[William Adams]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> These require
> custom handling in the application (I expect things like PageMaker or
> XPress probably had some features designed to support them);

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%ragemaker and quirk xpress

One would think so, but they didn't.

Both fake small caps w/ a button, even when present in an expert set  
--- the closest that one gets to automation are various scripts which  
will insert f-ligatures from an expert font (but woe-betide if the  
main font is changed). There were also a couple of XTensions for  
Quark for this sort of thing (one specifically engineered to support  
Emigre's Mrs. Eaves).

It's only w/ InDesign, and now Quark XPress 7 (want a laundry-list of  
its problems?) that one gets decent support for typographic font  
features and pretty much only w/ opentype fonts (or .ttfs which  
include opentype layout tables).

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> in the
> TeX world, the alphabet soup of .tfm, .vf, .fd, .enc, .map, etc.
> provides a mechanism that could be used.

The fontinst manual and Philipp Lehman's wonderful _Font Installation  
Guide_ cover all of this in detail --- there're also some interesting  
and useful articles on this sort of thing in TUGboat:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/
http://www.tug.org/tugboat/

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications