Re: Setting up lbr fonts

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:23:08 +0100
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> >And another question: fontinst generates some fonts including
> >symbols like degree. upright-mu or the registered-symbol. These
> >are in (LaTeX) TS1 encoding. What declarations are needed to use them?
> 
> you can define them as symbols
> 
> \definesymbol [registered] [\getglyph{Serif}{\char123}]  % or 
> {Palatino}{\char123} or {fontname}{\char123} or take your choice

In mfonts.pdf is shown how font-style switches (\bf, ...)
automatically apply to the Euro-Symbol.

Is it enough when i say
\definefontsynonym [PalatinoSymbols] [<TS1-Font>]
\definefontsynonym [PalatinoSymbolsBold] [<TS1-Bold-Font>]

\definefontsynonym [SerifSymbols] [PalatinoSymbols]
\definefontsynonym [SerifSymbolsBold] [PalatinoSymbolsBold]

\definesymbol [registered] [\getglyph{SerifSymbols}{\char123}]

to reach the same automatism.

Can i use the \definesymbol declaration in typescripts in order to
make the symbol-name<-->slot mapping local?

> these will scale with the current font size. The problem with these symbols 
> is that because they are not always present in a font, we cannot add them 
> to encoding vectors.

In both cases
- declaring a symbol
- using a symbol from a predefined encoding
 one must know which symbols are available, thus some predefined
 symbol-declarations could make the life easier. TS1 s a good
 starting-point, since it includes most of the symbols commonly available
 in commercial fonts. But i see, there is no good integration in texfont.

Regards,
  Jens