On Dec 20, 2008, at 12:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 20.12.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Mojca, I'm a bit slow tonight: what's weird about these files?
I have never seen <[ and << in map files before, but most probably these are completely legal characters. It's just my ignorance, probably nothing with the file, really.
After taking a closer look it seems to be an extention (with very weird syntax) to enable otf fonts. One rarely sees support for those in pdfTeX. (Even ttf seems to appear weird to TeXies.)
Don't know what <[ is supposed to do but << is necessary to use OpenType fonts with pdfTeX. Here is the explanation from the pdfTeX manual.
Thanks for the explanation Wolfgang. As to <[: to be quite honest, I don't know myself. When you let Eddie Kohler's lcdf tools generate a map file for an otf, it uses this syntax, so I just copied this behavior because it worked(TM). I have tried to google it, but searching for a string like <[ isn't easy, it seems... Thomas