Jens-Uwe Morawski
some time ago Hans and me discussed how to make TS1 symbols available. I've never tried it but it sounds interesting since it is an unified way to access the symbols. For example for Palatino
add to the typescripts
\definefontsynonym [PalatinoSymbols] [<TS1-Font>] \definefontsynonym [PalatinoSymbolsBold] [<TS1-Bold-Font>]
\definefontsynonym [SerifSymbols] [PalatinoSymbols] \definefontsynonym [SerifSymbolsBold] [PalatinoSymbolsBold]
and define the symbols in a symbol-typescript
\definesymbol[textregistered] [{\symbol[\currentencoding-registered]}] \definesymbol[ec-registered][\getglygh{SerifSymbols}{\char123}]
this could add the capability that the LaTeX textcomp package provides
At a quick glance this would fail for example for the euro sign/ec. (Not there in ec). Why not access the existing virtual fonts or generate new ones if needed? (phvr8c.vf for example - let us not fall back to the urw/adobe discussion yet :) Patrick