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Date:         Mon, 8 Mar 93 11:00:44 GMT
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Subject:      Re: Fonts and LaTeX 3
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 > Sometimes I'd like to keep cmtt (or, indeed, cmsf) and only replace cmr
 > with a PS font. But this requires some work because font encoding between
 > MF fonts and PS fonts normally differ slightly. So I'd like commands to
 > switch between different font encodings.
Frank has implemented this in NFSS2, due out imminently. he says (and
I tend to agree) that the neatest solution is to standardize on DC
encoding for CM, and use dc-encoded PS fonts [1]. then the issue goes away
(though the encoding-change stuff is there if needed)

 > I'd like to be able to turn _off_ ligatures at large point sizes because
 > ligatures look to cramped. But this can't be done from a macro
 > unfortunately, you'd have to have to build tfm's for different point
why not, indeed

 > A solution to some of this is to write a program, say, xfm2sty, that takes
 > a font metric file (or a bunch of metric files of the same font family)
 > and writes a macro that contains commands to manipulate fonts. Say, Adobe
 > Garamond gives rise to a macro \AdobeGaramond that switches to Adobe
 > Garamond Regular at \family{garamond}\selectfont\rm, SemiBold at \bf, etc.
i think a "program" is overkill. a Makefile, perhaps? its just a
question of tacking the appropriate tools together, isn't it?

sebastian


[1] tools available from
ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/fonts/postscript/dcps, but don't use the
font names there