[XeTeX] Slanted Latin Modern specification with fontspec

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Mon Apr 28 15:35:58 CEST 2008


On Apr 28, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Will Robertson wrote:

> On 28/04/2008, at 6:21 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> slanting introduces four more variants for serif fonts, two (regular
>> and bold) of upright (by forward slanting) and another two (regular
>> and bold) of italic (by backward slanting). There should also be a
>> way to set the angle(s) of slanting.
>
> The next version of fontspec will support XeTeX's font slanting  
> feature (which you can do right now with, say,  
> [RawFeature={slant=0.2}]), so you'll be able to do this if you  
> really want. Mechanical font slanting should be considered in the  
> same vein as letterspacing lowercase text, however.
>
> Will


Howdy,

Stealing Sheep. :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)




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