Hi Patrick,
Yes, but what is the problem? We are not talking about "other fonts", just the ones preinstalled by psnfss. We know ervery bit of those fonts, so no need to reflect the spacing etc. in the filename, since e.g. phvr8t will always have the same characteristics thougout all distributions.
that's fine for those who use ec fonts, but i happen not to use them (we started using texnansi a long time ago; i'm not even sure if ec was around that time, and i definitely didn't have access to metrics then)
say that i want to mix polish and german (using qx and ec encoding) in one doc, i want similar spacing etc, don't i?
Right, but qx isn't supplied by psnfss anyway, is it? So you'd have to make your own font; but I still can't see the drawback in using those fonts for 99% of [texts covered by ec encoding]. I can agree on
well, (other thread), this is why we need an encoding with 'as many characters as possible' which means, no funny characters like copyright and registered and such (which spoils slots) -)
"don't mix fontinst installed fonts with afm2... installed fonts when you need same em width (and alike)." But for most texts I bet that this is not an issue.
probably, so, i have no problems with everyone except me using ec and psnfss fonts; and indeed i don't want to mix systems (most of the documents i process here use commercial fonts and for those i depend on my own font hackery; it simply does not pay off to spent much time on figuring out fontinst for that, apart from the fact that i lost track of font names long ago -)
Absolutely. The choose the adobe metrics from psnfss, but as I am told the URW metrics have somewhat questionable kerning data. And using URW metrics with Adobe fonts will break on glyphs that are in URW but not Adobe.
right, and that's why i use the urw metrics with urw files (i always embed those files, since i don't want operating systems/acrobat/printers to swap in their own substitutes and clones); when i use for instance palatino from adobe or linotype, I just generate new metric files.
That is really good. Let me see what I can do with respect to psnfss/texnansi...
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