Hi Joachim,
Am 31.07.2012 um 13:46 schrieb Joachim Trinkwitz <j...@uni-bonn.de>:
> Am 31.07.2012 um 11:06 schrieb Keith J. Schultz <keithjschu...@web.de>:
>
>> One of the reasons why I stopped using LaTeX was its lack of support for
>> system fonts.
>> Xe(La)TeX change all that. Yet, when I look at fontspec, I said what in all
>> hell do I have to
>> do all that (setting up all kinds of features, and God knows what).
>
> Most fonts, system, free or commercial, will function out of the box, without
> fiddling with the fontspec options. Those are for the few exceptional cases
> or for certain special needs like font variants, color etc. (OK, speaking
> from the perspective of a user who don't need languages with non-latin
> scripts …)
The thing is if you read the manuals you wonder! I did not say that,
but reading the maual you see you can set a font/family with all kinds of
feature including the
simple old bold and italic. I wonder if textit had gone away! No where
is it stated in the manual that you do not need to set up the font families. I
t is, also, not me
many that I try to nudge into the TeX-world have the same experience.
>
>> Well that is another thing to keep in mind. For whom are all those features
>> in Xe(La)TeX needed.
>> A very elite group of people that understand typography and its use. Not,
>> the average user.
>
> I tend to think this when people a whining over the lack of microtype support
> in XeTeX, cause I don't believe each and every printed page need the
> perfection of Gutenberg's Bible prints. But then, the majority of (La-/XeLa-
> etc.)TeX users are just the types of writers which are passionate about
> typography, at least much more than the 'average user' of other writing
> systems …
Good point, except micro-type goe sway beyond Gutenbergs resolution!
regards
Keith.
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