Re: texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

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

On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>> how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non
>> existing ligs into account
>
> Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this  
> tomorrow,
> it is too late for me to do serious work.
>

I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the  
beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses  
it so it will not include default ligatures. If you delete this, it  
will work. If you use lm-ec.enc (which has a number of mistakes fixed  
anyway), it works. BUT afm2pl needs a file default.lig which is not  
present in all TeX distributions. I asked Siep a couple of months  
ago, and he replied there was a switch to ignore default.lig, but in  
that case, the default ligs would have to be supplied by texfont  
itself (which should be doable). IMHO, texfont should switch to  
afm2pl by default; it's much better at preserving kerning information  
(Adam, any thoughts on this?), and it makes virtual fonts  
unnecessary. I now use it regularly for all my font needs and am very  
satisfied with it.

Best

Thomas