Re: FAQ: fonts

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:23 PM 2/25/2002 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>Am Montag, 25. Februar 2002 17:24 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> > >- the FAQ is too terse and doesn't mention the nasty pitfalls (like the
> > > fact that you *cannot* redefine a typescript collection)
> > btw, you can overload one by a later accessed typescript
>
>But if there are (accidentally) two typescripts with same names, none of
>them's working! (Took me a while to mention...)

hm, i wonder why

> > right, this is needed because otherwise one cannot overload entries;
>
>Overloading of mappings seems never to work; you always get an "already
>defined" warning -- that's why I comment all maps in pdftex.cfg and let
>ConTeXt do the work.

right, this is one reason why i let context load before the psfonts file 
comes into play; more natural would be if pdftex would permit overloading 
(imagine using a generated slant font with a different slant and therefore 
metrics; in the default tex distribution there is no distinction between 
such instances).

Hans

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl
                       Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
  tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   fall-back web server: 
www.pragma-pod.nl
-------------------------------------------------------------------------