Fw: Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:47:35 -0700, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:

>> OpenType does not necessarily make virtual fonts obsolete, does it?
>
> the ability to combine fonts (map chars and char ranges onto fonts and  
> associate macro code to char instances etc etc ) is a necessity and  
> should take place under macro control (actually, thanh already has  
> experimental code for making fonts at th emacro level in pdftex but so  
> far it didn't make it into the main code base)
>
> whatever we provide, we should not cripple tex for the sole reason of  
> supporting one or two weird fonts, esp if those fonts can be normalized

Ok, whatever gets us to the finish line faster-) If there is a better  
method than vf/ovf then great, let's move forward...

Best
Idris

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