Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts

[Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>]

Atsuhito Kohda (kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp):

> From: Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>
> Subject: Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 05:27:08 -0600
> 
> > [...] Both of these applications benefit from having proper kerning
> > information for the text.  To attach an afm file in freetype you use
> > this function:
> > 
> > http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Attach_File
> > 
> > As hinted in the documentation, and shown quite clearly in the
> > source code, Freetype currently can only read afm files for its
> > kerning table.
> 
> I can see your point a bit.  I guess it might be better to package
> those afm files outside tetex packages.
> 
> We wouldn't like to add stuffs which were not included in the upstream
> teTeX.  Especially, inside TeX, we don't need afm files basically.

  Why not forward this upstream?

> I might misunderstand something but I wonder why you need to use
> computer modern fonts in a normal text on windows header(?).  Isn't
> there any more appropriate fonts?

  I just chose computer modern as an example.  My point was merely that
there are alot of fonts on my system that I do not have kerning data for
when rendering in my application, even though afm files exist upstream
but aren't distributed by tetex.  Seems like a bug to me.

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Billy Biggs
vektor@dumbterm.net