Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f1PB68r13962 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:08 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1PB68s19304 . for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:08 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1PB68H24930 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:08 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09F1A.F41ED000" Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA22494 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1PB66Q06591 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:06 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.C53F4D50@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:05:55 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 493052 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:03 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13210 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA53974 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:02 +0100 Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f1PB63h16319 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14Wyzx-0008Q8-00 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:05:53 +0100 Received: from manz-3e36485b.pool.mediaways.net ([62.54.72.91] helo=istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14Wz0n-0006PE-00 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:06:46 +0100 Received: (from latex3@localhost) by istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id MAA19720; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:03:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010225024744.B96941@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <14984.13275.957442.490284@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <14998.10371.943812.829077@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <20010225024744.B96941@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.4.1 X-Authentication-Warning: istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de: latex3 set sender to frank@mittelbach-online.de using -f Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: insufficent NFSS model (?) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <15000.59014.281096.511735@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Frank Mittelbach" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4016 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09F1A.F41ED000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Timothy Murphy writes: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:08:19AM +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > > > fonts are classified according to four different axises > > Probably not relevant to this deep discussion, > but I often wondered why colour (or even color) > was not added as a fifth "axis". because it is not a property of the font in the sense that changing = color (or even colour:-) doesn't mean changing anything font related, ie the tfms selected stay the same. not so if you go from medium series to bold or = bold extended or from upright to slanted ... frank ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09F1A.F41ED000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: insufficent NFSS model (?)

Timothy Murphy writes:
 > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:08:19AM +0100, = Frank Mittelbach wrote:
 >
 > >  fonts are classified according = to four different axises
 >
 > Probably not relevant to this deep = discussion,
 > but I often wondered why colour (or even = color)
 > was not added as a fifth = "axis".

because it is not a property of the font in the sense = that changing color (or
even colour:-) doesn't mean changing anything font = related, ie the tfms
selected stay the same. not so if you go from medium = series to bold or bold
extended or from upright to slanted ...

frank

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