On Apr 27, 2005, at 3:50 AM, Achim Blumensath wrote: > o Support for many-dimensional font shapes. We need: > - one axis for roman/italic/swash, How much ``swashness'' are you allocating? Zapfino has up to eight variations, and the OpenType spec allows for up to 20 (ssalt) I think it'd be better to have one axis for ``shape'' (roman, upright italic, italic, oblique) and another for swash alternate level (since one could have swash alternates for roman) > - one axis for u&lc/small caps/spaced small caps/versals, I agree w/ Lars that all caps is a better term in English than versals (unless you're planning on accommodating alternate cap forms here? As Will Robertson pointed out, one of the problems w/ this sort of thing is knowing where to stop.) > - one axis for text figures/lining figure, and > - one axis for proportional figures/tabular figures. What about 3/4 size lining figures? Or French old-style (2 has an ascender) as opposed to English? William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com