From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: texfont: installed font only works with pdftex
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:21:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D9B729.5050109@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB3AE75C-590A-4B49-8220-83ED4A200C87@uni-bonn.de>
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
>>> how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non
>>> existing ligs into account
>>>
>> Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this
>> tomorrow,
>> it is too late for me to do serious work.
>>
>>
>
> I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the
> beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses
>
well, we can consider to let texfont use a ec-fixed encoding for afm2tfm
and the regular ec encoding for the rest
--afmencoding=ec-fixed
or so
> it so it will not include default ligatures. If you delete this, it
> will work. If you use lm-ec.enc (which has a number of mistakes fixed
> anyway), it works. BUT afm2pl needs a file default.lig which is not
> present in all TeX distributions. I asked Siep a couple of months
> ago, and he replied there was a switch to ignore default.lig, but in
>
she
> that case, the default ligs would have to be supplied by texfont
> itself (which should be doable). IMHO, texfont should switch to
> afm2pl by default; it's much better at preserving kerning information
> (Adam, any thoughts on this?), and it makes virtual fonts
> unnecessary. I now use it regularly for all my font needs and am very
> satisfied with it.
>
for a while afm2pl was the default, but then it suddenly defaulted to latex default (em) spacing which ruined a project here because that went unnoticed and resulted in incompatible output, so it made me more careful; i'm not sure to what extend afm2pl uses the same default for the fontdimen related things as afm2tfm
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-06 8:07 texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding Andreas Schneider
2006-08-06 9:52 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-06 15:00 ` Andreas Schneider
2006-08-06 16:53 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608062211300.31615@rabat.Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.DE>
2006-08-06 21:00 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-08-07 7:59 ` Andreas Schneider
2006-08-07 8:29 ` Andreas Schneider
2006-08-07 8:42 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-07 12:34 ` texfont: installed font only works with pdftex Andreas Schneider
2006-08-07 13:25 ` texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding Hans Hagen
2006-08-08 7:14 ` texfont: font only works with pdftex Andreas Schneider
2006-08-08 8:05 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-08 8:33 ` texfont: installed " Andreas Schneider
2006-08-08 8:56 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-08 19:27 ` Andreas Schneider
2006-08-08 21:26 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-08 21:46 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-08 21:57 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-09 5:29 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-08-09 10:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-08-09 11:33 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-09 13:58 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-09 14:14 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-09 14:29 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-08-09 14:52 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-09 15:44 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2006-08-08 21:50 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-11 9:34 ` Andreas Schneider
2006-08-11 9:59 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-11 10:33 ` Andreas Schneider
2006-08-06 21:42 ` texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding Hans Hagen
2006-08-06 23:22 ` Mojca Miklavec
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