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Paul Vojta  
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 More options Dec 16 2005, 2:50 pm
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From: vo...@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:50:33 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Fri, Dec 16 2005 2:50 pm
Subject: Re: TTF2TFM
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In article <dnu2op$ar...@wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de>,
Michael Zedler  <Michael.Zed...@tum.de> wrote:

>I never quite understood what's the advantage of ttf2tfm over
>ttf2afm+fontinst.

Well, TeX uses numbers and not names to refer to glyphs.

Ttf also uses numbers and not names to refer to glyphs.

If you use ttf2afm, you have to assign names to your glyphs so that they
can be removed by afm2tfm.  Sounds kind of pointless to me.

I can understand why ttf2afm is useful (i.e., for pdftex, since its
font model is based on PostScript), but not for dvi creation.

--Paul Vojta, vo...@math.berkeley.edu


 
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