Re[2]: Greek font

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Monday, September 8, 2003 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> Willi,
> thanks for being supportive. In the meantime, I have taken another
> step: by using tftopl, I produced a .pl-file of my font and edited it.
> I inserted a "LIGTABLE" with ligature (and kerning) information. After
> using pltotf and using the new .tfm, I had partial success: I get a lot
> of the ligatures I want! However, a few problems remain:
> 1) The "space"-glyph has vanished. I assume it must somehow have been
> mismapped. Does anybody have an idea how I could remap this?

Can't help you here.

> 2) One Greek accent is called by using the "~"-character. However, I
> have no idea to which slot it is mapped; the same is true for the
> "|"-character. How can I find out? And, by what Giuseppe wrote me a
> while ago, I gather that I have to make at least the "|" inactive. Is
> this done with \catcode`|=\other ?

Yes, and you need to do the same for ~; or, you can use the =
instead of the ~ for the circumflex accent.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta