Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:35:15 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kB1HZ9ui032071 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:35:09 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id kB1HVDwo020282; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:31:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAUN21Xu027421; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:31:10 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.3) with spool id 1291817 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:31:10 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kB1HVApR017913 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:31:10 +0100 Received: from venus.open.ac.uk (venus.open.ac.uk [137.108.246.32]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kB1HUomT013262 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:30:55 +0100 Received: from vostok.open.ac.uk ([137.108.140.139]) by venus.open.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GqCDr-0006z5-GP for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:30:51 +0000 Received: from EPPING-EVS1.open.ac.uk ([137.108.170.246]) by vostok.open.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:30:51 +0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: The Next Font Selection Scheme Thread-Index: AccVZnM60B70A0USQU+uY2eiw7K3HwAB72NQ X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Dec 2006 17:30:51.0396 (UTC) FILETIME=[72714440:01C7156E] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id kB1HVApR017914 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:30:50 -0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: "J.Fine" Subject: Re: The Next Font Selection Scheme To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Precedence: list X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5001 William Adams wrote: > Things which CSS font selection doesn't encompass: > > width > optical size (as opposed to physical --- I left this out of my list) > font features such as swash and contextual ligatures > numberstyles > > They do have a nice numbering scheme for weight though (100--900) > which could be adapted --- there's no reason this couldn't be a > superset of CSS --- that's a very good idea and also use the > numbering scheme for widths. Thank you for this. So let me ask a question that William already hints at. Could the 'Next Font Selection Scheme' be a superset of CSS? Best regards Jonathan