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From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Virtual font tip
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:25:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040708152503.18185@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708135035.GA16728@swordfish>

Don't be discouraged, Matt.

I think your tool is really nifty--it's precisely one of those "if I have
time, I'll learn about VPLs" projects that I wanted to have realised at
some point. Your solution goes far beyond the FontSite500 support, as far
as I can see.

cheers,
adam

Matt Gushee said this at Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:50:35 -0600:

>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:03:55PM +0200, Holger Schöner wrote:
>>
>> > After purchasing the FontSite 500 CD, I wanted to make good use of some
>> > of the nice text fonts it contains--in particular I wanted to create
>> > TeX virtual fonts that would add ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures and
>> > replace the ugly ( ;-) ) lining numerals with old-style figures.
>>
>> I do not know, whether this is exactly what you looked for. But I found a
>> page by Christopher League, who created those virtual fonts (I think) for
>> use in LaTeX. I had good success in using the stuff he put on his
>webpage as
>> well for ConTeXt, and have set up a page in the Wiki, at
>
>Oh, I love when people provide solutions for my problems after I've
>already solved them for myself! Of course, I never asked. Maybe I should
>have.
>
>Thanks anyway.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-08 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-07  0:07 Matt Gushee
     [not found] ` <20040707084814.5e72441d@atipa.local>
2004-07-07 14:19   ` Matt Gushee
2004-07-08 11:03 ` Holger Schöner
2004-07-08 13:50   ` Matt Gushee
2004-07-08 14:25     ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2004-07-08 17:31       ` Matt Gushee

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