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