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RE: non-integer numbers support in afm files
- To: "'Vladimir Volovich '" <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru>, "'fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk '" <fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
- Subject: RE: non-integer numbers support in afm files
- From: Alan Jeffrey <ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:16:17 -0500
>Since this syntax is sometimes used (e.g. in paradissa fonts at ctan),
>maybe adding such extension to the allowable format of FontBBox into
>fontinst would be possible?
I'd rather not: parsing correct AFM files is hard enough without having to
parse broken ones too... better to preprocess the AFMs so that they're
legal.
Alan.