Re: texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

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Hi Andreas,

Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
>> Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map
>> file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong.
> 
> 
> Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries 
> for ec-bgj* (without 'raw') it should not interfere with the other 
> mapfiles (created by texfont) which are for ec-raw-bgj* and 
> texnansi-raw-bgj* (with 'raw'), or am I mistaken? Anyway xdvi complains 
> about texnansi-raw-bgj* (see example below which I had already included 
> in one of my previous mails).

There are two problems that I can see. There is only one that you
can fix, and there is another problem that is a base texfont
issue.


The fixable problem first:

If there is a virtual font, then dvi processors will recursively
break it down into its constituents (those are the *-raw-* font
metrics). Eventually, when there are no longer virtual fonts to
resolve, it looks for the 'base' fonts in its map file.

This process works in a similar fashion for all programs like
pdftex, dvipdfmx, dvips, and xdvi, but texfont only creates a
map file for pdftex. Unf, the pdftex map file cannot be used by
dvips, so for dvips you have to create your own (like you did).

When you create a map file for dvips for a texfont-installed
font family, it needs to have those *-raw-* entries that will
map the fonts to the real postscript font files on your harddisk,
and those were missing from your bgj.map.

Using the attached map file fragment, I can create a postscript file
that has fi ligatures of your example in texnansi encoding using
dvips. I have no xdvi here to try it, but that should work as well.



The second problem:

texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine).
There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will
investigate this further.


Taco

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texnansi-raw-bgjb ElegantGaramondBT-Bold    "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <bgjb.pfb
texnansi-raw-bgjr ElegantGaramondBT-Roman   "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <bgjr.pfb
texnansi-raw-bgjri ElegantGaramondBT-Italic "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <bgjri.pfb

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