example for Ornament feature

[mewtant]

About §2.8.5 of the manual, Work Sans doesn’t have the most ornamental ornaments, but those which are variations on the bullet work as the manual suggests the feature should. There are a few more ornaments, which can be made to work with RawFeature=+ornm. An example:

\documentclass[17pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setsansfont{Work Sans}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Ornaments in Work Sans}

  • {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=0}•} {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=1}•}
  {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=2}•} {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=3}•}
  {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=4}•} {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=5}•}
  {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=6}•} {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=7}•}
  {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=8}•} {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=9}•}
  {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=10}•} {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=11}•}
  {\addfontfeatures{Ornament=12}•}

  ¶ “ ” ‘ ’ {\addfontfeatures{RawFeature=+ornm}¶ “ ” ‘ ’}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Work_Sans_ornaments.pdf

[wspr]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm leaning away from adding more examples to the manual that use fonts that aren't in CTAN. (In fact I'm think of removing more examples and starting a repository entirely based around fontspec examples. What do you think?)

[wspr]

Oh, a quick question — instead of \addfontfeatures{RawFeature=+ornm} can you just write \addfontfeatures{Ornament} ?

[mewtant]

Yes, \addfontfeatures{Ornament} works and is easier to write; I must have been in need of caffeine when I first tried this font!

A repository of examples would be useful (I have my own tiny repository of examples fixing commercial fonts with \directlua). But my inclination would be to keep a rich variety of examples in the manual, because they attract the eye and help keep a reader motivated to work through the manual. It was examples of Zapfino that first made me look into fontspec; Zapfino isn’t among the fonts for which I’ve purchased a license, because it wouldn’t suit the kind of text I work on, but the examples enabled me to imagine what I could do with other typefaces.

[wspr]

That repository is great! Do you mind if I link to it in the fontspec manual? (I.e., do you think you'll keep it around for the foreseeable future?)

[mewtant]

Glad you find it useful, and certainly you may link to it. It’s not going anywhere, because I need it myself so that I don’t have to figure things out again from scratch each time I use a typeface. I’ll add to it little by little as I have time and find solutions.