Re: tetex and defoma
From: Angus Lees <gus@debian.org>
Subject: tetex and defoma
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:32:25 +1000
> before i duplicate anyones work, has there been much thought/code put
> into tetex defoma integration?
As far as I know, no, nobody does work on tetex deforma
integration.
> 1. registering all the tetex fonts with defoma.
great! At least, I lack knowledge of defoma so any (possible)
concrete example will help me/us much.
> 2. using defoma registered fonts within tetex apps.
> those that i can think of are: plain TeX, pdfTeX (which can do
> TTF), LaTeX, ConTeXt and dvips.
>
> (2) is the one i'm particularly interested in, since adding a few
> truetype fonts to pdfLaTeX fonts recently was a lot more work that it
> needed to be ;)
>
> as far as i can see, (2) is "just" a matter of generating the right
> font metric files, generating a few .map files, and then symlinking
> everything into somewhere that kpathsea can reach.
>
> it should also be possible to do (2) completely outside of the tetex
> packages, assuming i can add a new path to the relevant kpathsea
> search paths (which i can with the new texmf.d stuff), much as
> x-ttcidfont-conf does for X -- although integration would of course be
> the best long-term solution.
I would like to see your work. It will be of great help
for us too.
> i would very much like to see a world where people can Just Use a
> defoma-registered font within LaTeX/dvips/ghostscript and have it Just
> Work all the way through the toolchain.
>
> (i'm by no means an expert on fonts or TeX, especially when it comes
> to non-english issues)
I believe works only on english (or ASCII?) fonts will be
a great first step.
Best regards, 2002.7.17
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Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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