Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
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.
As it turns out, this is the same for afm2tfm. And to make matters even more confusing, I had the following problem: At one point, I had copied EC.enc to the current directory and fixed it. However, it still didn't work, because: [taco@glenlivet new]$ ls *.enc EC.enc [taco@glenlivet new]$ kpsewhich --progname=dvips ec.enc /opt/tex/teTeX/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/base/EC.enc because of a line in /opt/tex/teTeX/texmf/aliases :-/ Either way, it seems that this LIGKERN interpretation that overrules the afm file is actually considered a feature. The sane way out seems to be to ship our own encoding files in fonts/enc/texfont or so. Taco