Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
And even worse both engines have their own default values for fonts.
add to that -- they may implement feature support differently -- fonts have bugs in lookup rules (obscured by processing engines) -- we may want to control aspects of features -- we may invent our own features (fea files) ater all, open type has hardly any good reference documentation, bugs and unclear specs may dictate wrong behaviour in persistent manners (as with html and browsers),font designers have to think like programmers which may not be their stringest point, ... although font installation becomes way easier in tex, it does mean that all our problems are solved 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------