Re: font encodings (glyph lossed with Gentium in T5)

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Jan 22, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> E.g. if I install the Junicode fonts with texfont, the t5 table is  
> half empty. If I create the AFMs with FontForge, it's mostly  
> filled, but I get some of the glyph ... not found' warnings, i.e.  
> it can access some more characters, but still not all.
> But *all* of the characters should be there (they *are* in the font!).
> 'dcroat' (striked-through d) is a typical case.
>
> Please, any of the wizards, what can we do?
>
>

OK, this may not be of much help, but I just converted GenR102.TTF to  
pfb via fontforge, and now the font correctly picks up the dcroat  
glyph. I mus admit I had similar situations in the past where simply  
regenerating the font would solve mysterious problems, so I shrugged  
my shoulders and did what a man must do. I think the new Gentium  
license allows for this conversion, and the LaTeX people will be  
distributing pfbs anyway, so why not convert to pfb (which is easier  
for TeX to use anyway?)

Best

Thomas