Re: .fd files

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>]

"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm> writes:

> On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> > That said, it is not a lot of work to create a module that reads fd
> > files
> > (based on the LaTeX .fd reader, which is quite isolated from the
> > rest of
> > LaTeX). I just don't agree that it is a good idea to do so.
> 
> OK; I guess I'll take your word for it.  The other option is to lobby
> people developing these tools to include support for ConTeXt
> typescripts, or just continue to create them manually.  Texfont can't
> do some of what I need done (for example, to install truetype rich
> fonts with additional glyphs like small caps).

Wouldn't it be easier to create a perl script that translates from
latex .fd files to something that context can use?

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