Fonts for LyX

[Eckhard Höffner]

Thanks.  The old style numbers appear somewhat strange at first glance, 
i agree. I copied them from the original Didot fonts from about 1810.  I 
also stumbled over the numbers at the beginning, but only at the 
beginning. The four is quite big, for example.

There are also parallel (default) and mono spaced numbers.  You can 
switch the style by inserting a tex-box:

\addfontfeatures{Numbers={Lining, Monospaced}}

\addfontfeatures{Numbers={OldStyle}}

That's also the reason I use realscripts, because footnote numbers in 
"old style" look strange. But for usual text I'm quite happy with the 
old style numbers (e. g. page 16). They do not stand out at all, while 
normal numerals look like a block of capital letters. Anyway, the fonts 
are hardly made for long series of numbers. There are much better ones.

My plan was to have a legible font (print and pdf), but not a variant of 
Bembo, Garamond or Times, for example, because TexLive has really good 
fonts of that kind.


Am 01.04.23 um 20:46 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> Thanks for sharing, Eckhard! I looked at the pdf there. Cool font!
>
> What tools do you use to develop the font?
>
> I took a look at the PDF. One thing I noticed is that for the page numbers, in 41 and 42 they appear to be centered vertically but for 43 it seems more like top aligned. Not sure if that makes sense, but it seemed a little off to me.
>
> Good work!
>
> Scott

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Eckhard Höffner
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D-80636 München
Tel.: 089 210 31 888
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