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Re: Fontinst modifications
- To: Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr
- Subject: Re: Fontinst modifications
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:08:27 +0100
- Cc: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <199806041507.RAA22250@mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr>
- References: <3576AC8E.5B7E3D8F@cs.depaul.edu> <199806041451.QAA04531@attila.uni-duesseldorf.de> <199806041507.RAA22250@mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr>
Thierry Bouche writes:
> PS yes, typically, Berthold & URW fonts have far too many kerns for a
> typical tex installation : you need a web2c 7 (you can use pdftex if
> you already have that on you system) with large texmf.cnf
careful, Rowland and Lars live on crippled computer systems,
remember...
> values. You'll notice however that the VPL you get need also an
> enlarged vptovf... (like the one on Tex live 3)
>
its worse than than that. some investigations by Wayne Sullivan into
my metrics reveal that all of tftopl, pltotf, vptovf, and vftovp need
capacities enlarging, and that vftovp has a genuine bug which fontinst
kicks with the compoundwordmark. thats why latin.mtx needs an empty
content for that glyph.
sebastian