Re: fonts fonts and fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:33 AM 3/13/01 +0100, S2P development wrote:

>For metric files, basically. Right?

indeed, with the accompanying map files, i now generate something 

texnansi-adobe-myriad.map 

as well as a tex test file which also shows how to include them (using
their internal names, which for some reason are always inconsistent:
blabla-bold-italic vs blablabold-italic vs blabla-bolditalic vs blabla-bi
or whatever). 

>Y&Y still have the tfm files for the full Adobe library on-line, which 
>is basically the same idea hans is going for. Have a look at:
>
>    http://www.yandy.com/usely1.htm

i'll have a look 

>I believe that if you do all of the hard work yourself anyway, that
>it is probably a better idea to replace fontinst alltogether. (But,
>as I said earlier, keeping the functionality intact). 

a matter of stepwise improvement adn i bet that you have some ideas too

>Technically: it is easy to replace 8r (the so-called Adobe Raw encoding)
>with 8y (texnansi) as the base encoding on top of which you can build
>the 8-bit latex virtual font version. 

how i would like texnansi-blabla.tfm and rawtex-blabla.tfm ...  

>> > How many of you use fonts other that cmr and what fonts? In what 
>> > encodings? In what combinations?
>
>I lost track, really. :-)

well, if *you* lost it, then who kept track

A thought: why not use unicode mapping? The regimes can map onto it and
internally we can then stick to <font><char> pairs. We only need to create
series of virtual files i suppose? I don;t know what the consequence for
patterns is, but it would solves the mix ten languages that don't map onto
one font instance problem

Hans
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