Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.92CE34BC@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:44:08 +0100 Return-Path: <@vm.gmd.de:LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.BITNET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.92CE34BC" x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-to: LATEX-L%DHDURZ1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Sebastian is right, as usual (was: NFSS2 alpha comments) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1992 01:05:00 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Don Hosek" Sender: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 510 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.92CE34BC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -Sebastian has laid the finger on one of the crucial shortcomings of -TeX itself: there is no way to know whether a .tfm file can be loaded -or not. That means that this has to be decided beforehand, so that -suitable font definitions can be supplied. [This process may, of -course, be automated.] Not that it's necessarily practical but it is possible to check the availability of a TFM file from TeX: - Switch to \batchmode - Attempt to load the font - If the font is not available, \meaning\fontname expands to "select font nullfont" -dh ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.92CE34BC Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Sebastian is right, as usual (was: NFSS2 alpha = comments)

-Sebastian has laid the finger on one of the crucial = shortcomings of
-TeX itself: there is no way to know whether a .tfm = file can be loaded
-or not. That means that this has to be decided = beforehand, so that
-suitable font definitions can be supplied. [This = process may, of
-course, be automated.]

Not that it's necessarily practical but it is possible = to check
the availability of a TFM file from TeX:

- Switch to \batchmode
- Attempt to load the font
- If the font is not available, \meaning\fontname = expands to
  "select font nullfont"

-dh

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