Another way of tweaking lout to support alien characters?

[Matěj Cepl]

Hi,

after doing a small "research" (I mean, below mentioned TeXpert and
reading this list) I found, that downloading Czech fonts seems not to be
satisfactory to my goals, because (a) resulting PS file is too big, (b)
action is not easily done automagically.

However, I found, that there is other way as well. I was informed by Mr.
Petr Ols~a'k (s~ is equivalent of /scaron and a' /aacute -- just to see,
how difficult Czech language is :-), who is a national Czech TeXpert (or
how to call it - the second highest in TeXists rank, right after Donald
Knuth himself), that it is possible to tweak AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) so
that in resulting PostScript the missing characters (e.g., zcaron) are
represented by some kind of composite of underlying character and a
diacritical mark (in this case letter "z" and caron).

TeX is able to prepare from such changed AFM file prepare its own
internal metrics (TFM, I believe, is the name) and dvips is able to
prepare PostScript displaying Czech characters using these composite,
which should be able to be shown by GhostScript without any Czech
characters installed.

As an example, I enclose, the file  . Mr. Olsak's home page can be found
on URL http://math.feld.cvut.cz/olsak and his article on program a2ac
(which modifies AFM file) in English is on
http://math.feld.cvut.cz/olsak/a2ac-tug.ps. 

So, my question is, would it be possible to force lout in reading this
modified AFM file in order to produce such PostScript file?

While reading all PostScript related materials, I met another question,
which is, why there is a such thing as a .LCM file at all and why lout
cannot read this coding information from AFM files?

                                Have a nice day

                                                Matthew

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