Re: Fonts

[Michael Piotrowski]

Jeff Kingston <address@hidden> writes:

> I wonder whether anyone else thinks that Bookman Light (and similar
> things) ought to be in their own family?

Given the current naming scheme, I've been putting both variations in
my font database in some cases, e.g.,

   HelveticaNeue-Condensed
   HelveticaNeueCondensed-Base
   HelveticaNeue-BoldCond
   HelveticaNeueCondensed-Bold

It might be more intuitive if the font management would handle weight,
width and slope separately, which would need database entries somewhat
like this:

   address@hidden @Tag     {"UniversCondensed-BoldSlope"}
             @Family  {"Univers"}
             @Width   {"Condensed"}
             @Weight  {"Bold"}
             @Slope   {"Italic"}
             @Name    {"UniversE-BoldCondensedItalic"}
             @Metrics {"_qbci___.afm"}
             @Mapping {"microLaser.LCM"}
             @Recode  {"Yes"}}

Actually, I think it might be useful to handle the font encoding
similarly.

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                                  <address@hidden>