Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:54 +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Why should I use otfinstall instead of texfont, besides the fact that texfont doesn't work? Do you really need another reason? Have you tried otfinst? The point of all these scripts is to make your life easier in generating metrics, auxiliary fonts and map files; if you tear yourself with questions before trying them much of their interest is lost on you.
You're right. I'm just a curious person. I considerd texfont to be an 'official' tool, and I'd like to learn/stick to official stuff whenever possible (at least as long as that doesn't involve me losing my sanity).
Is texfont incomplete?
I have no idea; but at any rate it belongs to a clearly “older” generation of scripts. The latest available version has “version=2004.02.06” in the documentation part, and even without that you can spot it quite easily since it belongs to Hans' Perl period ;-)
I didn't know Hans' had a Perl period... I guess that period has passed now... 2004 has been a while...
well, i still use texfont for type 1 fonts, but for open type i use luatex anyway which can handle it directly (actually, mkiv also uses afm files instead of tfm when available, so texfont is not needed any more) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------