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From: Siep Kroonenberg <siep@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: Greek font
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:51:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030910155103.GA7609@tullamore.elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6579FF3A-E20A-11D7-A812-00039318D414@uni-bonn.de>

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:40:31PM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Willi,
> thanks for being supportive. In the meantime, I have taken another 
> step: by using tftopl, I produced a .pl-file of my font and edited it. 
> I inserted a "LIGTABLE" with ligature (and kerning) information. After 
> using pltotf and using the new .tfm, I had partial success: I get a lot 
> of the ligatures I want! However, a few problems remain:
> 1) The "space"-glyph has vanished. I assume it must somehow have been 
> mismapped. Does anybody have an idea how I could remap this?

TeX doesn't use a space glyph. Instead, there is a fontdimen
space and there may be boundarychar kerns and ligatures to replace
space kerns and -ligs.

If you want more complete documentation: get a TeX source tree, run
weave on pltotf.web or vptovf.web and compile the resulting TeX
file.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg
siep@elvenkind.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-06  8:06 Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-06 15:49 ` Willi Egger
2003-09-06 16:13   ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-08 12:13     ` Jens-Uwe Morawski
2003-09-06 18:03   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2003-09-06 21:10     ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-06 21:35     ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-07 22:07     ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-08 13:52       ` Willi Egger
2003-09-08 14:40         ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-10 13:08           ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2003-09-10 15:51           ` Siep Kroonenberg [this message]
2003-09-10 16:26             ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2003-09-10 23:01         ` Hans Hagen

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