Re: iso latin 2

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Vit Zyka wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> I wonder,
>>
>> \definecharacter Aring         {\ilencodedrA}
>>
>> \definecharacter Lstroke       {\ilencodedL}
>> \definecharacter lstroke       {\ilencodedl}
>>
>> where do these come from? is that because csr does not provide those 
>> glyphs?
> 
> 
> il2 encoding is not ISO-8859-2 but encoding of CS fonts (csr...). It was 
> derived from ISOO-8859-2 but:
> - first 128 glyphs are the same as cmr...
> - upper part is added according to ISO-8859-2 
> (http://nl.ijs.si/gnusl/cee/charset.html) but only chars needed for 
> Czech/Slovak lang.
> 
> Neither Aring is present in CSfont, nor Lstroke, nor lstroke.
> 
>> (which makes il2 like aer (almoet ec) something almost il2 -)
> 
> 
> I have mentioned that when I was interested in CMAP.
> 
> ---
> 
> I entered these three chars definitions when I was preparing support for 
> Storm's fonts last weekend. It is a large collection (about 50 families) 
> of commercial fonts with large glyph set each (about 370). Since there 
> are prepared large collectin of tfm (t1 or il2 + one extended) from Petr 
> Olsak I decided to use them. I prepared enco-st2.tex (storm il2) and 
> enco-st3.tex (storm extended) for now (I intended also enco-st1 for t1). 
> The question is how to elegantly switch from standard (st2) tfm to 
> extended (st3) tfm when the glyph is not present in st2 - with 
> preserving \rm, \bf, \it, \bi.
> 
> Example: {\bf Bold text with special char \textplus} where \texplus is 
> bold variant from st3 encoded tfm. It is understandable?

I wonder, why don't you use the more recent qx encoding;

if il2 is only used for csr, then we can best extend il2 encoding since all the 
chars missing in csr are present in latin modern;

Hans

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