Re: fonts fonts and fonts

[Han The Thanh <thanh@informatics.muni.cz>]

> > Are you using fontinst for this? This should imho be the best way to do
> > it, because you can also use the font for tex/latex.
> 
> fontinst is a confusing affair. While it is fairly easy to install
> a simple text font with it, it is very hard to do something complicated.
> People keep telling me that it's possible, but it doesnt make a lot
> of sense to me. 
> 
> Also, I don't understand why it was coded in TeX (don't tell me it is
> for ease of use ... it's not easy to use ... and it's not helpful for 
> portability ... fontinst doesn't even do any of the non-portable stuff). 

completely agree!

> In short: I don't like fontinst, nor will I ever. But it does make 
> sense to create an 8t/7t encoded tfm along with the texnansi one for 
> context. 

I do use fontinst, because I don't have anything more reasonable to deal
with things like composed glyphs, letterspacing, kerning and the likes.
Don't tell me that afm2tfm can do that job.

Thanh