[XeTeX] [OT] Free fonts for fontspec examples?
Yves Codet
ycodet at club-internet.fr
Mon Jul 12 09:37:37 CEST 2010
Hello.
Le 12 juil. 10 à 09:15, Will Robertson a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to improve the examples in the fontspec manual. As well
> as improving the examples already there, I'd like to eliminate the
> use of any non-free fonts so that others can compile the manual
> without trouble.
>
> I've got a few areas I'm stuck on, since my font repertoire isn't
> very large.
>
> 1. Does anyone know of any free fonts that have optical size
> variants?
>
> 2. I'm looking for examples which use (and don't need too many
> explanations) the following features:
>
> - Contextual swashes (cswh)
>
> - Uppercase spacing/kerning (cpsp)
>
> - Historical style (hist)
For the last feature you could use a Greek font which includes it, for
instance "Alexander", that you can download here:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
If you typeset the word λόγου with and without 'hist' you will see
a difference.
I hope this helps. Best wishes,
Yves
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