Bennett Helm wrote: > Wow -- a very nice feature! thanks.
> Of course, now that you've whetted my > appetite, I want more. > > The standard TeX distributions on Mac now include support for various > standard Mac fonts, such as Baskerville, Didot, Georgia, Hoefler, > Gill Sans, Futura, Lucida Grande, Optima, Verdana, and American > Typewriter, some of which include true small caps and old style > numbers. Including support for these (at least on Mac) would be great. > > The catch is, these fonts are .ttf and so apparently work only with > pdfTeX. > > Given this limitation, would adding support for this be desirable? > (If so, I can provide implementation details....) In theory, it would be desirable to support as much fonts as possible. In practice, however, I needed very much hardcoding for each font, unfortunately, which really limits the number, so I decided to go for the most common CTAN fonts at first. In the long run, I think we should try to set up an interface where the users (or packagers) can easily add other fonts (in an external style file). This needs some careful thinking, though, and, as Georg convinced me, should best be implemented in conjunction with some general document setting framework. Ironically, I couldn't be more concerned myself by this limitation, because I usually use a commercial font and therefore still need the preamble. Jürgen > Bennett
