Hello, Will Robertson wrote: > On 27 Apr 2005, at 5:20 PM, Achim Blumensath wrote: > > >the MinionPro project was asked about our wishes for an improved font > >selection scheme. Currently there are three things which we miss in > >NFSS: > > > >o Separate values of \bfdefault,... depending on the font family. > > > >o Support for many-dimensional font shapes. We need: > > - one axis for roman/italic/swash, > > - one axis for u&lc/small caps/spaced small caps/versals, > > - one axis for text figures/lining figure, and > > - one axis for proportional figures/tabular figures. > > > >o The ability to change math fonts within the document. Currently, > > \SetSymbolFont and friends are declared \@onlypreamble. This is > > needed, for example, to switch to tabular figures when setting > >tables. I forgot one feature: o Being able to load packages from FD files (e.g., keyval). > I believe that there will never be a fixed scheme that is able to > encompass all variations that can be thought up by a font designer, You misunderstood. What I meant was: being able to define your own axes. Internally all axes could be implemented as shape parameter. I suggest replacing the current shape value by a comma separated list with one entry for each axis: \fontshape{it,sc,osf}\selectfont Achim -- ________________________________________________________________________ | \_____/ | Achim Blumensath \O/ \___/\ | TU Darmstadt =o= \ /\ \| www.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/~blumensath /"\ o----| ____________________________________________________________________\___|