Re: Texfont map file.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

John R. Culleton wrote:

>I always believed that when referring to a file in  a \font
>statement one should use the first name found in the appropriate
>line in the map file. This is supposedly the name of the tfm file
>for that particular font. However texfont produces a map file
>like this:  
>
>8r-raw-AGaramond-Italic AGaramond-Italic 4 < AGaramond-Italic.pfb 8r.enc
>8r-raw-AGaramond-Regular AGaramond-Regular 4 < AGaramond-Regular.pfb 8r.enc
>8r-raw-AGaramond-RegularSC AGaramond-RegularSC 4 < AGaramond-RegularSC.pfb 
>8r.enc
>
>...and texfont actually produces two tfm files per font. The
>correct name to use in a \font statement is the second name in
>the generated map file statement, not the first. Since not all
>map file statements have the second parameter this can be
>confusing.  
>
>Since texfont attempts to provide for both pdftex and Context
>users this little gotcha should be referenced in the texfont
>manual. I discovered it by accident. 
>  
>
texfont is doing it right -) 

what you observe is virtual font handling (which involves multiple tfm/vf metric files) 

Hans 


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