Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:48 PM Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > I tried to experiment (modifying TeX Gyre Pagella from 1000 to > UPM), but for some reason, I wasn’t able to load the font. > hm. Weird. Assuming ttx from fontools $> ttx texgyrepagella-regular.otf $> cp texgyrepagella-regular.ttx

Re: [NTG-context] Questions to font family Pagella

2018-10-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> But for single letters (such as in heading numbers [12.A.γ] and > references to them), I would like to use the Greek glyphs that come with > Pagella. I see: it clearly makes sense to use the same font for Greek and Latin in this particular case; but surely diacritics are not necessary?

Re: [NTG-context] Questions to font family Pagella

2018-10-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/18/18 3:51 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:17:22PM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >> do you know if the new Greek glyphs will be extended to support >> polytonic Greek? > > Not any more than Hans does, but I agree with his assessment that we > shouldn’t count on it

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/18/18 10:37 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi Pablo, > > Let me go back an try to answer the original question: > [...] > Nothing more, nothing less. Many thanks for your explanation, Taco. I think the basic issue is clear to me now: different typefaces may have different dimensions (when pri

Re: [NTG-context] Use \framedtext to write an algorithm (again)

2018-10-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Fabrice, I’m sorry but I don’t understand the question. Can you explain what do you expect from the example but doesn’t work. Wolfgang Fabrice Couvreur schrieb am 17.10.18 um 21:58: Hi Wolfgang, You offered me the following code to write algorithms. It seems that this does not function

Re: [NTG-context] Questions to font family Pagella

2018-10-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2018-10-18 um 15:51 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer : > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:17:22PM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >> do you know if the new Greek glyphs will be extended to support >> polytonic Greek? > > Not any more than Hans does, but I agree with his assessment that we > shouldn’t count

Re: [NTG-context] Questions to font family Pagella

2018-10-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:17:22PM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > do you know if the new Greek glyphs will be extended to support > polytonic Greek? Not any more than Hans does, but I agree with his assessment that we shouldn’t count on it. I think it makes more sense to use different fonts fo

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/18/2018 10:37 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Pablo, Let me go back an try to answer the original question: On 15 Oct 2018, at 21:21, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Dear list, sorry for this basic question, but what defines the size in a font? The font designer decides on the ‘natural’ size of

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 6:15 PM Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > On 10/17/18 11:13 AM, luigi scarso wrote: > > [...] > > Nice to/must have : > > > > Fonts & Encodings > > Book by Yannis Haralambous > > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/ > > and pdf at > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Pablo, Let me go back an try to answer the original question: > On 15 Oct 2018, at 21:21, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > Dear list, > > sorry for this basic question, but what defines the size in a font? The font designer decides on the ‘natural’ size of the font. There are two parts to this.

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/18/2018 9:54 AM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:14:21PM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: I tried to show that the em square is the fixed measure. It’s not. You misunderstand. You sent an example \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \framed{M} \fra

Re: [NTG-context] what defines the font size?

2018-10-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:14:21PM +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > I tried to show that the em square is the fixed measure. It’s not. You misunderstand. You sent an example \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \framed{M} \framed{\tfxx M} \framed{\tfd M} \sto