[XeTeX] \ifFontExists

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

First of all Happy New Year to everybody!

> But how would we define "matches closely"? How do you measure the  
> "closeness" of fonts, and how do you decide what is "close enough" to  
> meet the needs of a typesetting job? And what if the operating system  
> doesn't have a font that is "close enough", by whatever measure of  
> distance we use?

This is an excellent topic for someone willing to apply fuzzy set theory to
typography. The basic idea is to define an ideal font (i.e., a font where
glyphs have the most standard form) and then to define similarity
degrees, etc. But I will stop here.

A.S.


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