Re: Greek font

[Thomas A.Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Thanks again for helping. I'm happy to say that I'm almost home free. 
The trick was to go via .vpl-files and edit them. The missing glyphs 
were somewhere in the table, I could simply copy and paste them in the 
right position; I then added ligatures for all the accents/breathings 
etc and finally kerning information. I then used vptovf to produce a 
matching tfm, and everything worked as expected; even the "space" has 
micraculously reappeared. Strangely, when I put the resulting .vf-file 
into my "fonts/vf"-folder, TeX would go haywire; this means that I 
couldn't use any remapping in the fonts. I had to cut a few corners, it 
is just a "quick-and-dirty" fix, but it works!!! I've learnt more about 
fonts than I ever wanted, but I now have (almost) real control; I even 
managed to replace one character I didn't like with its counterpart 
from another font (and then edit this new character to perfection in 
pfaedit, a really amazing tool). One last (little) problem; maybe one 
of you has an idea: since I couldn't remap, I have trouble producing a 
single breathing in front of a capital letter. I helped myself by 
defining \define\<{\getglyph{greeoxon}{96}}, so I could at least use 
\<A to obtain capital alpha with rough breathing. The problem is that 
after these commands, I can't get any kerning to work. Any ideas?
Maybe one day I'll know enough about TeX to do all of this the proper 
way. Maybe one day I'll be able to use Omega (btw, how can the new 
e-Omega/Aleph be obtained? And where can I dload Omega 1.15?). But for 
the time being, I'm a happy camper again. Should any of you be 
interested, I'd be glad to share my stuff.
Best
Thomas