[XeTeX] \ifFontExists

[William Adams]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

> 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.


Well, there was Bauermeister's ``PANOSE'' system (I believe HP now  
owns the license for it), which matches fonts up by appearance and  
allows a system to choose an alternative font based on how close it  
matches --- years ago I turned off ATM on a Windows machine and PANOSE  
matched fonts so closely I didn't realize it until I examined the  
printout closely.

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications