[XeTeX] "Hoefler Text" XeLaTeX interface

[Will Robertson]

On 4 Oct 2004, at 9:41 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2004, at 12:16 pm, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>>> At the moment I need a separate font family for literally almost 
>>> every (if I choose to make them, which I don't) permutation of font 
>>> feature choice. But if there was an XeTeX command I didn't know 
>>> about that would do say:
>>
>> ...
>> In principle, you could probably do it directly in TeX macros even 
>> now--use \fontname to get the name of the current font, and then 
>> declare a new \font with the feature setting you want added. But that 
>> sort of string manipulation in TeX macros can get tricky, I admit.
>>
>
> As a starting point, you could try this....

That's a fantastic beginning!
Your work on this project is just unbelievable.

I need to try and work out if this is enough to be able to do all of 
the Hoefler Text switching without creating separate families - if so 
I'll update my files as soon as I can. I've got some other fonts ready, 
too (the more basic ones).

I guess now I'm glad in a sense that Apple hasn't included the entire 
Hoefler family! (As much as I'd so much rather the bold rather than the 
black font.)

Will