Thanks, questions, and suggestions #65
Description
I thank you for providing FontPro, which helped me install Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. Still, a few questions and a few suggestions for improvement.
Questions:
(Q1) How can I use the semibold every now and then and the usual bold for the rest? The option medfamily or fullfamily overrides the usual bold, which I find undesirable (and from the posts on stackexchange I seem not to be the only one). It would be more user-friendly that the conventional boldface always remains the standard and the semibold becomes selectable.
(Q2) Without 'expanded' option for 'makeall', is Microtype's expansions still working for pdf and not of lesser quality? I found the README not 100% clear about this.
(Q3) The output of the MyriadPro installation started with: "Different font versions found: --pack option is disabled"
My otf fonts (taken from my Adobe Creative Suite CS4):
Myriad CAD Regular: 1.023;PS 1.000;hotconv 1.0.57;makeotf.lib2.0.21895
Myriad Currency Regular: 1.006;PS 3.000;hotconv 1.0.67;makeotf.lib2.5.33168
Myriad Pro Regular and others: 2.037;PS 2.000;hotconv 1.0.51;makeotf.lib2.0.18671
I did not saw a message of FontPro processing Myriad CAD Regular and Myriad Currency Regular. All the others were processed.
MyriadPro-BoldCond did give the warning:
cfftot1: glyph 'ohorn': warning: complex flex hint replaced with curves
cfftot1: (This font contains flex hints prohibited by Type 1. They've been
cfftot1: replaced by ordinary curves.)
Still, the MinionPro also gave similar warnings of the kind above, so I am not really worried about the warning.
How to proceed best with these fonts in a future installation?
(Q4) The output of the MyriadPro installation gave me the impression MyriadPro uses MnSymbol. Wouldn't it make more sense MyriadPro uses MdSymbol?
(Q5) I receive the following Microtype warnings (see my Microtype settings at the bottom of this email):
Package microtype Warning: I cannot find a protrusion list for font
(microtype) OML/MinionPro-TOsF/m/it/12'. Switching off (microtype) protrusion for this font on input line 59. Package microtype Warning: I cannot find a protrusion list for font (microtype) OML/MinionPro-TOsF/m/it/8'. Switching off
(microtype) protrusion for this font on input line 59.
Package microtype Warning: I cannot find a protrusion list for font
(microtype) `OML/MinionPro-TOsF/m/it/6'. Switching off
(microtype) protrusion for this font on input line 59.
Can this be fixed by me? Or by you? Or is this the responsibility of the microtype maintainer?
Suggestions:
(S1) Update README: root priviliges -> root or superuser priviliges. Superusers should precede './scripts/install' and 'updmap-sys' commands with 'sudo'
(S2) Make it easier: Already have an empty 'otf' folder for the user, instead of asking the user to create such a folder.
(S3) Output of installations of MinionPro and MyriadPro:
Warning: missing glyph hookrightchar'. Warning: missing glyph hookleftchar'.
Perhaps this can be fixed? Still, I cannot recall I ever used these glyphs, so don't go through much trouble to fix this.
My Microtype settings:
\usepackage[final,step=1,tracking,spacing]{microtype}
\microtypecontext{spacing=nonfrench} %Ensures Microtype's interword spacing remains enabled when other packages change the interword spacing
\DeclareMicrotypeSet{allmathT1}{ encoding = {T1,TS1,OML,OMS} }
\DeclareMicrotypeSet{basicmathT1}
{ encoding = {T1,OML,OMS},
family = {rm*,sf*},
series = {md*},
size = {normalsize,footnotesize,small,large}
}
\DeclareMicrotypeSet{basictextT1}
{ encoding = {T1},
family = {rm*,sf*},
series = {md*},
size = {normalsize,footnotesize,small,large}
}
\DeclareMicrotypeSet{smallcapsT1}
{ encoding = {T1,TS1},
shape = {sc*,si,scit}
}
\UseMicrotypeSet[protrusion]{allmathT1}
\UseMicrotypeSet[expansion]{basicmathT1}
\UseMicrotypeSet[tracking]{smallcapsT1}
\UseMicrotypeSet[spacing]{basicmathT1}