Re: [NTG-context] (fake) bold as font feature

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On 03/26/2018 07:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 3/26/2018 4:55 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 3/26/2018 1:40 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

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Hans,

would it be possible to add a embold feature (similar to the slanted font feature) that fakes the bold font with \starteffect[both]...\stopeffect and it doesn’t strecht the font?

much is possible if i can motivate myself

Good to know in order to propose new features :-). Hm. Fake bold / slanted / small caps /<what ever> of a base font are dangerous, there is an high risk to compromise the legibility of the text (this is especially true nowadays with user consumer tablets 10" full hd ). A font is not only glyphs, but also kernings and hints and all these

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: things must match. As Knuth shown , the right way is to design from the beginning how each glyph should be transformed instead of apply to all the glyphs the same transformation (which is faster, this is sure). This is the key concept of metafont --- in my opinion better than the variable fonts . I am not saying that this impossible to do in context-mkiv ( *it is* possible: just see 5.3 Virtual fonts of the luatex reference) but in the end the result is the same of write the correct bold/slanted/small caps/<whatever> version of the base font . it's anyway not true to say that 'boldening a font' is a bold font .. it's more like: hey, we can do the same as all these font vendors,

On 3/28/2018 11:32 AM, luigi scarso wrote: provide 25 weights of the same base regular (we can't go thinner btw) a boldened latin modern regular for instance looks like a real 'modern' latin modern and looks way different from the metafontish produced bold latin modern (i actually like the boldened more in this case so we can have a "modern latin modern" typescript ... of course math is a different issue but even that can be made acceptable it anway makes a nice topic / presentation for the ctx meeting Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------