[tex-live] TeXlive infrastructure

[Hans Hagen]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Fact is that in TeXLive the font files in type1/adobe/courier don't
>     match the corresponding metrics files in afm/adobe/courier.  Just to
>
> As I surmised -- but does anyone have any knowledge of where the correct
> afm's are?  I don't.  And of course there is the question of what afm's
> were used to generate the tfm's, independent of what afm's correspond to
> the actual fonts.   Both would be nice to know (whether or not we change
> anything, which I doubt we would want to).
>   
there was a time that the adobe fonts were part of the programs they 
distributed but at some moment they disappeared; maybe on old  floppy 
collections ... (i recently trashed all our old stuff)

Hans