X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1199" "Thu" "9" "May" "1996" "16:41:08" "+0100" "KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE" "KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE" nil "29" "ec font dimensions again" "^Date:" nil nil "5" nil "ec font dimensions again" nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA09767; Thu, 9 May 1996 17:44:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.74406FE1@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 9 May 1996 17:43:11 +0200 Received: from URZINFO.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by URZINFO.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 82221 for LATEX-L@URZINFO.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 9 May 1996 17:00:05 +0200 Received: from MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (dzdmzc.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.34]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.5/8.7.4) with ESMTP id QAA12835 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 16:59:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from decnet-daemon (KNAPPEN@VKPMZD) by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V5.0-4 #10401) id <01I4IBN7NT0GA3D182@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE> for latex-l@urzinfo.urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Thu, 09 May 1996 16:41:08 +0100 X-VMS-To: IN"latex-l@urzinfo.urz.uni-heidelberg.de" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <01I4IBN7OQXEA3D182@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 16:41:08 +0100 From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: ec font dimensions again Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1737 After a longer break, I come back to the fontdimension issue. Thanks to Barbara for sending the ISO/IEC 9541-1 to me. Here's my current proposal of additional fontdimensions to the dc/ec text fonts: 23: font_cap_height % Height of non-accented caps 24: font_ascender_height % Height of lowercase letter with ascenders 25: font_accented_cap_height % (Maximal) Height of accented caps 26: font_descender_depth % (Maximal) Depth of lowercase letters 27: font_max_height % Height of the highest object in the font 28: font_max_depth % Depth of the deepest object in the font 29: font_digit_width % Width of the widest digit 30: font_cap_stem % Breadth of the stem of capital I The dimensions 23--29 are based on the proposal Micheal Downes posted about one month ago, I have added the height of accented caps. A new proposal is No. 30, font_cap_stem. This can be used to calculate an `absolute boldness' to be used in a futuristic font selection scheme (FFSS). According to the standard cited above, the absolute boldness can be calculated as font_cap_stem/alphabet_width, where alphabet width can easily be measured by TeX (or any other typesetting program). --J"org Knappen.