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Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend? |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:34:02 +0100 |
address@hidden writes:
> by Pango. Even if they use TeX fonts, the information is based on
> the PS outlines. I fully support your idea to replace
> ec-fonts-mftraced with cmsuper or something similar, converted to
> OpenType so that the TFM files are no longer needed. Ideally,
> those OpenType TeX fonts should behave similar to any other
> OpenType font; this means the loss of italic correction (which
> isn't available in OpenType fonts), for example, but it assures
> that the font interface doesn't have to cope with special cases.
That's not going to work completely, not only do we loose italic
correction, but also design size. Can't we agree with other parties
(tetex?) on a standard SFNT table for TeX specific information?
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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- Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Rogier van Dalen, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2005/01/04
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, George Williams, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Werner LEMBERG, 2005/01/05
- Re: [tex-live] Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Vladimir Volovich, 2005/01/05
- Re: [Fontforge-devel] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?, Rogier van Dalen, 2005/01/05