Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

Thank you for both responses, Werner — most informative and much appreciated. -- /Philip Taylor/

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

>> May I /very/ respectfully suggest that while support for colour >> emoji fonts may well be of interest to some, it would be more in >> the spirit of TeX to invest that effort into attempting to support >> the technology that underlies Zapfino Ink >>

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

> May I /very/ respectfully suggest that while support for colour emoji > fonts may well be of interest to some, it would be more in the spirit > of TeX to invest that effort into attempting to support the technology > that underlies Zapfino Ink > .

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

On 13/07/2022 18:05, Bruno Voisin via XeTeX wrote: If anybody wishes to take on that task, here's another possible item for the todo list: the support of colour emoji fonts. I have not tried with other emoji fonts, but Apple's font (Apple Color Emoji.ttc in macOS) is supported by LuaHBTeX in

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

> On 13 Jul 2022, at 19:05, Bruno Voisin wrote: > > Overleaf has a very nice technical article on TeX's support of emojis > > https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/An_overview_of_technologies_supporting_the_use_of_colour_emoji_fonts_in_LaTeX > > discussing in detail why XeTeX doesn't su

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

> On 12 Jul 2022, at 22:46, Karl Berry wrote: > > Jonathan or Arthur or anyone can correct me, but so far as I have > observed, no one has been working on such new xetex developments for > years now. > > If there is anyone out there with sufficient time, interest, and skill, > a volunteer would

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

I stand corrected. I'll keep that in mind the next time we update the fonts. David. From: XeTeX on behalf of David Carlisle Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5:08 PM To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. Cc: Bruno Voisin Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Suppo

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 22:03, David Jones wrote: > STIX Two is distributed in OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 formats: > > https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts > > Only the TTF files are variable fonts. > > Only the OTF fonts are distributed via CTAN since none of the TeX engines > can use the (variable)

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

STIX Two is distributed in OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 formats: https://github.com/stipub/stixfonts Only the TTF files are variable fonts. Only the OTF fonts are distributed via CTAN since none of the TeX engines can use the (variable) TTF fonts. The changes in version 2.13 only affected the var

Re: [XeTeX] Support of variable OpenType fonts

Hi Bruno and all, Does XeTeX support variable OpenType fonts, or is the addition of their support planned at some point? Jonathan or Arthur or anyone can correct me, but so far as I have observed, no one has been working on such new xetex developments for years now. If there is anyone ou