Re: Re: How to use PostScript font

[Hans Hagen Outside <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi Patrick,

>Yes, but what is the problem? We are not talking about "other fonts",
>just the ones preinstalled by psnfss. We know ervery bit of those
>fonts, so no need to reflect the spacing etc. in the filename, since
>e.g. phvr8t will always have the same characteristics thougout all
>distributions. 
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that's fine for those who use ec fonts, but i happen not to use them (we 
started using texnansi a long time ago; i'm not even sure if ec was 
around that time, and i definitely didn't have access to metrics then)

>>say that i want to mix polish and german (using qx and ec encoding) in
>>one doc, i want similar spacing etc, don't i?
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>Right, but qx isn't supplied by psnfss anyway, is it? So you'd have
>to make your own font; but I still can't see the drawback in using
>those fonts for 99% of [texts covered by ec encoding]. I can agree on
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well, (other thread), this is why we need an encoding with 'as many 
characters as possible' which means, no funny characters like copyright 
and registered and such  (which spoils slots)  -)

>"don't mix fontinst installed fonts with afm2... installed fonts when
>you need same em width (and alike)." But for most texts I bet that
>this is not an issue.
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probably,  so, i have no problems with everyone except me using ec and 
psnfss fonts; and indeed i don't want to mix systems (most of the 
documents i process here use commercial fonts and for those i depend on 
my own font hackery; it simply does not pay off to spent much time on 
figuring out fontinst for that, apart from the fact that i lost track of 
font names long ago -)   

>Absolutely. The choose the adobe metrics from psnfss, but as I am
>told the URW metrics have somewhat questionable kerning data. And
>using URW metrics with Adobe fonts will break on glyphs that are in
>URW but not Adobe.
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right, and that's why i use the urw metrics with urw files (i always 
embed those files, since i don't want operating systems/acrobat/printers 
to swap in their own substitutes and clones); when i use for instance 
palatino from adobe  or linotype, I just generate new metric files.

>That is really good. Let me see what I can do with respect to
>psnfss/texnansi...
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ok; btw, also take a look at sieps afm2pl since it has some other nice features 

Hans 

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