AFM font metrics location?

[pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu (Ben Pfaff)]

I'm working on a program that will use AFM font metrics to lay out
text on pages.  So, obviously I need a directory to get them from.
Assuming that there was a standard location for these things, I did a
grep of the Contents-i386 file and found essentially identical
collections of AFM files in the following locations:

	    /usr/lib/R/afm
	    /usr/lib/enscript
	    /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts
	    /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/afm/adobe/*
	    /usr/share/a2ps/afm

So, apparently our current policy is that any package that needs AFMs
should make a new directory and stick 'em in there :-)  Potentially,
you end up with five sets of presumably identical files.

Shouldn't we standardize this somehow?

Ben


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