Re: ISO 8859-2 Type1 fonts

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:17:48PM +0400, Matej Cepl wrote:

> (The Times, Helvetica and Courier are from the collection of Peter
> Soos with corrected encoding vector).  [...]  However, there are
> still some troubles with characters like emdash, endash and
> quotedblbase (missing glyphs).

You know, sometimes I think that nothing is more dangerous than people
without experince in font design but with a good font editor in hands.
(I know.  I have FontLab3.  Sometimes I scare myself.)

I especially mistrust fonts that are tweaked for use with X11.
Somehow I was not surprised to see the lack of kerning information in
AFM's, missing glyphs for anything that is not directly encoded.  I
mean, people that do this sort of font packs usually have best
intentions.  You know where best intentions end up.  There's a similar
font pack for Russian, only in worse relative condition.


> May I substitute them by the ones from Latin-1 fonts using the
> following construction (somewhere in bsf?)???
> 
>       def @Char { emdash } { English @Language emdash }

No.


> May somebody send 
> me original (unchanged) makefile from lout-3.19, please? Thanks.

Sent in private email.


SY, Uwe
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