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Date:         Fri, 29 Jun 90 20:36:00 PDT
Reply-To: LaTeX-L Mailing list <LATEX-L%DHDURZ1@unido.bitnet>
From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK@HMCVAX.bitnet>
Subject:      Re: Font mappings
To: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.uucp>
Status: R
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>I think I might concede this; *if* you don't use virtual fonts, or
>some other mechanism to remap fonts, it wil be clumsy to achieve the
>effect within TeX in any other way. If I was going to do this
practice,
>however, i'd sort out the mapping problem outside TeX\ldots

Did you read my comments about \AA and \aa yet?

Given time, I can come up with dozens of applications for this sort
of mechanism that cannot be solved with virtual fonts (another case
of this is in texts mixing Arabic script with roman fonts. Because
Arabic letters have much lower descenders, these require different
struts. These texts, as a result, frequently have rather wildly
variable leading. In a paragraph, we can let \interlineskip take care
of the problem, but in a tabular, we need to set a larger strut when
we switch to an Arabic family.

-dh