Re: fonts / proposal

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:06 PM 8/3/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Friday, August 03, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>HH> Hi,
>
>HH> I'm currently working on fonts, not so much in context itself, as well as
>HH> installation. Since i want a clean way to install fonts [commercial ones
>HH> for instance] and since licence policy is always tricky, i now put 
>them in
>HH> a dedicated tree texmf-fonts.
>
>I think the TeX Directory Standard puts fonts under
>
>\texmf\fonts\<type>\<class>\<vendor>\<name>
>
>e.g.
>
>\texmf\fonts\type1\public\ams\cmr
>
>or something of the sort.

right, and since i like to delete and reinstall the base path's i don't 
want my own fonts or patches there -)

I think the (only) problem with this is that it fails on pure DOS
>system (8.3 naming constrictions). Since the font naming is X
>Windows-like, why don't you just use the X Windows scheme?

right, in which case one can use filemapping to map back on 8 char names 
for which i provide

   \usetypescript [map][berry]

>I don't find any objections. The recursive fontsynonym technique
>also allows for automagic font substitutions: if
>ec-uplr8a-slanted-167 is not available, it can be mapped to the
>closer available font (e.g. removing the 167, which would seek
>for a "default" slanted font, then removing the "slanted" etc;
>something like using a * in a fontname part under X Windows).

right, can even be automated,

Hans
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