From: Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>
Subject: Re: ligatures?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 23:27:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0hr6ek3.fsf@gundla.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFA52288-8490-11D7-94D3-0050E4258255@fastmail.fm> ("Bruce D'Arcus"'s message of "Mon, 12 May 2003 11:46:46 -0400")
"Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@fastmail.fm> writes:
>> make use of the "Virtual Fonts" feature in TeX and the backends. How
>> did you install your fonts? You should have some .vf files for your
>> fonts and you can access the contents of them with vftovp (convert
>> back with vptovf) and just add ligature information.
>
> The strategy he used does not use virtual fonts.
Who is "he" in this case? Adam?
> It involved running afm2tfm (via texfont) on the afms to extract the
> glyphs using different encodings.
But afm2tfm gives you the vf's! And how can you reencode a font
without vf's? Are you doing this in the mapfile?
> Conceptually this is pretty
> straightforward. I'm not sure (because I've never done it) what
> would be involved in extending this installer to support adding ligs
> via vfs...
Just take the fi as an example.
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-12 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-12 14:28 ligatures? Adam Lindsay
2003-05-12 14:57 ` ligatures? Bruce D'Arcus
2003-05-12 15:01 ` ligatures? Bill McClain
2003-05-12 15:25 ` ligatures? Bruce D'Arcus
2003-05-12 15:43 ` Dumb newbie question about UTF-8 support Edmund Lian
2003-05-12 15:03 ` ligatures? Patrick Gundlach
2003-05-12 15:46 ` ligatures? Bruce D'Arcus
2003-05-12 21:27 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2003-05-12 22:04 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2003-05-12 15:54 ` Adam Lindsay
2003-05-12 20:54 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2003-05-12 21:41 ` ligatures? Patrick Gundlach
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