Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs into account
Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this tomorrow, it is too late for me to do serious work.
I've experimented with afm2pl, and as I wrote in an earlier mail: the beginning of EC.enc with its additional LIGKERN instructions confuses
well, we can consider to let texfont use a ec-fixed encoding for afm2tfm and the regular ec encoding for the rest --afmencoding=ec-fixed or so
it so it will not include default ligatures. If you delete this, it will work. If you use lm-ec.enc (which has a number of mistakes fixed anyway), it works. BUT afm2pl needs a file default.lig which is not present in all TeX distributions. I asked Siep a couple of months ago, and he replied there was a switch to ignore default.lig, but in
she
that case, the default ligs would have to be supplied by texfont itself (which should be doable). IMHO, texfont should switch to afm2pl by default; it's much better at preserving kerning information (Adam, any thoughts on this?), and it makes virtual fonts unnecessary. I now use it regularly for all my font needs and am very satisfied with it.
for a while afm2pl was the default, but then it suddenly defaulted to latex default (em) spacing which ruined a project here because that went unnoticed and resulted in incompatible output, so it made me more careful; i'm not sure to what extend afm2pl uses the same default for the fontdimen related things as afm2tfm 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------