On 8/22/2023 5:45 PM, Hamid,Idris wrote:
(OTOH, had previously seen yours and Mikael's sophisticated minion-math.lfg)
It's not that complete and we only tested an old evaluation copy. Our
policy wrt commercial fonts is now that we only look into them when we
get (some 5) copies for context dev without any restriction of usage
because we might want to show them in manuals or articles or
presentations and there is no reason to spend time on them unlees we're
paid for it.
I think that my version is/will be more complete - except for mathematics. Once
some fine-tuning and additional testing is done, will donate the results to
ConTeXt.
Good.
As for free fonts. MinionPro Opticals should be considered an exception to the
free-fonts rubric. After all,
i) its multiple-master design base was inspired by MetaFont/Knuth, and hence
ii) it's very popular with TeXies.
I don't have that font set and am not willing to spend money in it either.
Put another way, Minion Pro should be considered an honorary TeX typeface -)
Hm, so we should honor a font vendor for that? Do font vendors expect
texies to spend time on something they cannot use? Also, some of these
commercial licenses have become pretty restrictive. With respect to
spending time on something, the same is true for some tools: supporting
acrobat, fonts, specific file formats, features etc ... one way tickets
... if we need it in a project i can waste the time on it, otherwise i
rather spend the time on things we (and users) can actually use and have
fun with.
Hans
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