X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["773" "Wed" "14" "February" "1996" "04:17:07" "+0100" "J%org Knappen, Mainz" "KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "16" "Additional font dimensions for text fonts" "^Date:" nil nil "2" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA03349 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:59:18 +0100 Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id A198B241 ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:57:58 +0100 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 9551 for LATEX-L@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:55:15 +0000 Received: from DDAGSI1.BITNET (NJE origin MAILER@DDAGSI1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0064; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 11:52:52 +0000 Received: from DDAGSI3 (SYSTEM) by DDAGSI1.BITNET (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 1203; Fri, 16 Feb 96 19:41:18 MEZ Received: from vzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de by DDAGSI3.GSI.DE (IBM MVS SMTP V3R1) with TCP; Fri, 16 Feb 96 19:41:10 CET Received: from DECNET-DAEMON (KNAPPEN@VKPMZD) by VzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE (PMDF V4.2-11 #4432) id <01I16URMX68G001X8U@VzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE>; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 04:17:09 +0100 X-Envelope-to: @mvs.gsi.de:latex-l@dhdurz1.bitnet X-VMS-To: GATEWAY"latex-l@dhdurz1.bitnet" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <01I16URN1GK2001X8U@VzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 04:17:07 +0100 From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Additional font dimensions for text fonts Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1724 This a request for feedback, which additional font dimensions the ec text fonts should have. For nice typesetting, which font dimensions are usefull? How could they be applied (e. g. in LaTeX3)? The dc fonts currently contain 6 additional font dimensions, namely def font_character_set expr x = fontdimen 8: x enddef; def font_baselineskip expr x = fontdimen 9: x enddef; def font_acc_height expr x = fontdimen 10: x enddef; def font_cap_height expr x = fontdimen 11: x enddef; def font_asc_height expr x = fontdimen 12: x enddef; def font_rule_thickness expr x = fontdimen 13: x enddef; They are currently undocumented, and the first one (font_character_set) looks already like a failure (font dimensions get scaled, if the font is scaled). --J"org Knappen.