Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Pablo Rodríguez wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Pablo Rodríguez wrote: >> >>> After using \showfontstrip to get fonts with the same x-height by >>> calculating the rscale factor, I guess it would be very useful (at least >>> for me) to have an option that calculates relative scaling automat

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: > My most common scenario for font scaling is not roman with > sansserif or > typewritter, but roman Latin with roman Greek characters and > setting the > same x-height for both. And I thought there were fine with the same > x-height for bot

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-16 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hans Hagen wrote: > Pablo Rodríguez wrote: >> After using \showfontstrip to get fonts with the same x-height by >> calculating the rscale factor, I guess it would be very useful (at least >> for me) to have an option that calculates relative scaling automatically >> to match both x-heights. >> >> I

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-15 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hans Hagen wrote: > � wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Using XeTeX, one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX >> (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of >> fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman >> font. I wonder whether there is

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Pablo Rodríguez wrote: > After using \showfontstrip to get fonts with the same x-height by > calculating the rscale factor, I guess it would be very useful (at least > for me) to have an option that calculates relative scaling automatically > to match both x-heights. > > I think it would be a usefu

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Pablo Rodríguez wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> does this mean that when >> >> \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=0 (default) >> >> xetex will mess around with the interlinespace? that would be a bad default >> behaviour >> > > In XeTeX (and XeLaTeX) the default value is one. > > I guess XeConTeXt sho

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-14 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hans Hagen wrote: > does this mean that when > > \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=0 (default) > > xetex will mess around with the interlinespace? that would be a bad default > behaviour In XeTeX (and XeLaTeX) the default value is one. I guess XeConTeXt should have \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=1 by default.

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-14 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX > (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of > fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman > font. I wonder whether there is something similar for

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-13 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2006-11-12 um 22:17 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez: > >> I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX >> (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the >> scaling of >> fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of t

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-11-12 um 22:17 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez: > I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX > (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the > scaling of > fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the > roman > font. I wonder wheth

[NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-13 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman font. I wonder whether there is something similar for ConTeXt. By the way