Michiel Kamermans wrote:
- HAN NOM A/B
(http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/fonts/fonts_hannom.html),
technically a general CJKV font, massive glyph span, but no opentype
features as far as I can tell.
I have seen this page before, and been puzzled by the names
credited with the creation of t
On 7/15/2010 4:04 AM, Ryo IGARASHI wrote:
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Hi, Will,
Just to comment on 3., only for Japanese font stuff.
2010/7/12 Will Robertson:
3. All of my Japanese examples use the Hiragino fonts distributed
with Mac OS X; are there any free alternati
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Hi, Will,
Just to comment on 3., only for Japanese font stuff.
2010/7/12 Will Robertson :
> 3. All of my Japanese examples use the Hiragino fonts distributed
> with Mac OS X; are there any free alternatives I can use that supports
> features such
On 2010-07-14 22:24:30 +0930, "Fr. Michael Gilmary"
said:
Oh, good! Then, I humbly request, for the benefit of those you love on
this list, that the next version of fontspec documentation have
hyperlinks for ToC, etc Maybe you've already done this in more
recent versions that we have her
On 14/07/2010 15:51, William Adams wrote:
On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:45 AM, François Charette wrote:
The edition itself should indeed be searchable, indexable and the accompanying
apparatus should provide clear evidence for all changes the editor(s) made to
the original source(s). The photographi
On Jul 14, 2010, at 9:45 AM, François Charette wrote:
> The edition itself should indeed be searchable, indexable and the
> accompanying apparatus should provide clear evidence for all changes the
> editor(s) made to the original source(s). The photographic reproduction
> should only complement
On 14/07/2010 15:31, Peter Baker wrote:
I love it! I'll try to get a look at his stuff.
Some of Boncompagni's earlier publications are on Google Books, but they are still
comparatively conservative in terms of "authentic reproduction". That became more visible
in the later issues of his Bul
On 14/07/2010 14:24, William Adams wrote:
On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:16 AM, François Charette wrote:
Still, I cannot refrain from asking: what is exactly the point of such fonts?
Any edition of an historical text should be first and foremost legible and
intelligible to modern readers, without dis
On 07/14/2010 06:16 AM, François Charette wrote:
In 19th-century Rome, a prince and mathematician named Baldassare
Boncompagni[1] ran his own publishing house and scholarly journal on
history of mathematics and physics, the “Bullettino di bibliografia e
di storia delle scienze mathematiche e
On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> I agree with all except (possibly) the last part : what exactly
> do you mean by "reflect modern sensibilities" ? Would you advocate
> changing the wording of a reproduction of a historical document
> solely because its origin
Will Robertson wrote:
P.S. I love this list.
Oh, good! Then, I humbly request, for the benefit of those you love on
this list, that the next version of fontspec documentation have
hyperlinks for ToC, etc Maybe you've already done this in more
recent versions that we have here.
On 14 Jul 2010, at 13:24, William Adams wrote:
>
> (whose wife purchased a reproduction of The Declaration of Independence for
> him as a Christmas gift last year:
> http://mbelloff.tripod.com/goddardbroadside.html
> --- we got the first edition w/ the original wording, but there's a new one
> w
William Adams wrote :
On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:16 AM, François Charette wrote:
>> Still, I cannot refrain from asking: what is exactly the point of
>> such fonts? Any edition of an historical text should be first and
>> foremost legible and intelligible to modern readers, without distracting
>> the
On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:16 AM, François Charette wrote:
> Still, I cannot refrain from asking: what is exactly the point of such fonts?
> Any edition of an historical text should be first and foremost legible and
> intelligible to modern readers, without distracting them. To accurately
> reproduc
On 2010-07-14 19:46:02 +0930, François Charette
said:
[quite off-topic]
In 19th-century Rome, a prince and mathematician named Baldassare
Boncompagni...
P.S. I love this list.
Thanks :)
W
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On 12/07/2010 19:38, Peter Baker wrote:
On 07/12/2010 11:44 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
If you typeset the word λόγου with and without 'hist' you will see
a difference.
Thanks for the suggestion; unfortunately I think these fonts only have historical
ligatures (hlig) rather than historical a
On 2010-07-14 12:38:56 +0930, Alexey Kryukov
said:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0930
Will Robertson wrote:
Why? If they are "historical forms" isn't it better to give them a
meaningful OpenType feature name?
To my mind, an attempt to provide meaningful feature names for every
possible sit
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0930
Will Robertson wrote:
> Why? If they are "historical forms" isn't it better to give them a
> meaningful OpenType feature name?
To my mind, an attempt to provide meaningful feature names for every
possible situation was a key mistake of the OpenType standard. It
On 2010-07-13 21:50:50 +0930, David Perry
said:
Sure, or cv01 (like ss01) if you implement the short tags. Fontspec is
unusual in that it lets (actually, requires) users to request stylistic
alternates by number. Most programs present the alternates visually in
a character palette.
Well, t
Will Robertson wrote:
Please ask if it looks like I've missed adding a feature in fontspec;
chances are I need to add code or documentation or both to the package.
A somewhat na\"\i ve question, if I may ? Reading the Fontspec manual,
fairly early on I see :
The fontspec package allows us
Will Robertson wrote:
The reason the naming scheme is so chaotic is that it was first written
to support Mac OS X AAT fonts (this was before XeTeX supported
OpenType!)
I suspected that was the case, thanks for confirming.
I'm trying to document OpenType font features now with clear refere
On 2010-07-13 03:37:13 +0930, David Perry
said:
This has always been available under the "Variant=0/1/2/3/..." feature
but this name wasn't very obvious. In more recent versions of fontspec
you can use "StylisticSet=0/1/2...".
Thank you, thank you. I hadn't picked up on this. The naming
con
Will Robertson wrote:
But please note
that this feature is essentially deprecated: it is better for a font
designer to use stylistic sets instead.
Why? If they are "historical forms" isn't it better to give them a
meaningful OpenType feature name?
I think what Alexey is referring to is th
On 07/12/2010 11:44 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
If you typeset the word λόγου with and without 'hist' you will see
a difference.
Thanks for the suggestion; unfortunately I think these fonts only have
historical ligatures (hlig) rather than historical alternates (hist).
Cheers,
Will
I've go
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:00:00AM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 2010-07-12 18:33:54 +0930, Alexey Kryukov
> said:
>
> >On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0930
> >Will Robertson wrote:
> >
> >>- Historical style (hist)
> >
> >You can try my Theano Old Style font
> >(http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/
On 2010-07-12 17:07:37 +0930, Yves Codet
said:
For the last feature you could use a Greek font which includes it, for
instance "Alexander", that you can download here:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
If you typeset the word λόγου with and without 'hist' you will see
a difference.
Thanks fo
On 2010-07-12 22:01:42 +0930, Khaled Hosny
said:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:45:49PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
1. Does anyone know of any free fonts that have optical size variants?
Latin Modern.
Oh! It's like the purloined letter, hiding in plain sight.
Thanks,
Will
On 2010-07-12 18:33:54 +0930, Alexey Kryukov
said:
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0930
Will Robertson wrote:
- Historical style (hist)
You can try my Theano Old Style font
(http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/theano.html), which has some
historical forms implemented both for Greek and Latin.
On Mon 12th Jul, 2010 at 16:45, Will Robertson seems to have written:
Dear all,
I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well as improving
the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the use of any non-free fonts
so that others can compile the manual without trouble
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:45:49PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well as
> improving the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the use of any
> non-free fonts so that others can compile the manual without troubl
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:45:49 +0930
Will Robertson wrote:
> - Historical style (hist)
You can try my Theano Old Style font
(http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/theano.html), which has some
historical forms implemented both for Greek and Latin. But please note
that this feature is essentially depreca
Hello.
Le 12 juil. 10 à 09:15, Will Robertson a écrit :
Dear all,
I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well
as improving the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the
use of any non-free fonts so that others can compile the manual
without trouble.
I've
Dear all,
I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well as improving
the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the use of any non-free fonts
so that others can compile the manual without trouble.
I've got a few areas I'm stuck on, since my font repertoire isn't very
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