On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:26:06AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote:
ok; btw, also take a look at sieps afm2pl since it has some other nice features Hans
My belated three cents on some of the things which were discussed in this thread: As to texnansi: this is supported in Latex by texnansi.sty. For Western European languages, it seems to cover pretty much everything, so there is no need for text companion fonts or virtual fonts. Basic support (without artificial smallcaps) for a font family with non-virtual texnansi fonts consists of just four tfms, a mapfile fragment and, for Latex, an fd file. As to fontinst: doing it the easy way, using just the latinfamily command, you get dozens of files, in 8R, T1, OT1 and TS1 encoding. You have to be pretty expert if you want more fine-grained control and a more economical set of support files. I don't even know whether Fontinst can generate non-virtual texnansi fonts which are suitable for regular typesetting. Besides, I believe that nowadays fontinst depends on Latex. Sorry about just mentioning Latex here: I am only an occasional Context user, and don't use typescripts or texfont at all. As to afm2pl: the latest version available from tex.aanhet.net is 0.6; later versions are written to be part of TeX Live 2004 which is currently under development. Because of changes in the TDS, these may not work correctly in an older TeX installation. Version 0.7.02 with afm2tfm compatibility is not yet in the TeX Live source tree, last time I checked. -- Siep Kroonenberg