Very true. But, though Apple champions the font and has included it in the OS since 1991, it is peculiarly limited in utility. Though the small-caps issue is more-or-less settled, the absence of pre-built fractions and the inability to use the font’s sub/super/scripts or numerators/denominators is an ongoing source of irritation, at least to me… I can see the glyphs in FontBook, but there seems to be no way to use them — at least in TeX. The more irritating as it is a beautiful typeface.
SGM PS. By the way I’d love to be proven wrong about the sub/super/script and numerator/denominator issues ;>) > On Oct 27, 2023, at 5:23 PM, David Barts via XeTeX <xetex@tug.org> wrote: > > Yes, Apple ships a very nice set of fonts standard with MacOS. It’s one of > the reasons I’m a Mac user, as one could easily spend hundreds (or maybe low > thousands) licensing all those fonts individually. Makes the Apple price > premium pay for itself. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 26, 2023, at 04:42, Stephen Moye via XeTeX <xetex@tug.org> wrote: >> >> And a nice surprise: Not many fonts, even those labelled ‘pro’, contain >> italic, bold, and bold-italic small caps: >> >> <Screen Shot 2023-10-26 at 7.39.44 AM.png> >> <hoefler-sc.tex> >> >> >>> On Oct 26, 2023, at 7:03 AM, Stephen Moye via XeTeX <xetex@tug.org> wrote: >>> >>> Ah, and very useful. I have worked out the following as a possible >>> approach… and begins to make Hoefler a bit more useful. >>> Suggestions/improvements? >>> >>> <Screen Shot 2023-10-26 at 6.59.57 AM.png><hoefler-sc.tex> >>> >>>>> On Oct 25, 2023, at 11:56 PM, David Barts via XeTeX <xetex@tug.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> <smcp1.tex> >>> >> >
