Re: mfonts.tex from manuals

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> 1. Certainly the *easiest* way to get a working solution is to
> change the fontsynonyms in typ-dis.tex so that they match the real
> world instead of the desired world.

in the past we have cycled between both [u|p]plr8t kind of names and the 
problem was that

(1) sometimes one of them was missing
(2) this aliasses file (obscure kpse feature) was interfering
(3) the location of files changed [this urw35v thing] resulting in 
missed files while copying

for instance, it was always a gamble what reference to the dingbats 
would work today

so

>
> 2. But on the other hand, that would be promoting a rather bad
> practise, and deleting the fontsynonyms instead would be better.

this looks like the way to go

>
> I happen to know that Hans will start distributing a cont-fnt.zip
> file soon that will contain texfont-style metrics, so my vote goes
> to the second solution.

that makes two votes ...

Hans