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Date:         Wed, 22 May 1996 15:26:03 +1000
From: Ken Smith <kgs@MATHS.UQ.OZ.AU>
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Subject:      Re: More on fontdimensions
Status: R

Michael Downes <MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG> writes in response to me:

> > J"org Knappen <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.UNI-MAINZ.DE> writes:

[comments on wasted space for additional \fontdimen deleted]

[my comment about emTeX]

> > I recently installed emTeX on a Pentium for students in this Department.
> > The machine has a 1.2 Gb disk, and each of the tfm files took up 32 kb
> > since DOS doesn't allow more than $2^{16}$ files in any partition, and
> > the disk was configured as a single partition.  With files taking up
> > this much space I don't think you need worry about some extra dimensions
> > in some fonts "wasting" space.
>
> The whole purpose of emTeX's .fli files is to save the accumulated
> wasted space at the end of large numbers of small files.

This is fine for pk files, but unless my reading of _TeX the program_
is faulty the tfm files must be in individual files for access as and
when needed, if they are not in the format.
Can we hope that at some time in the not too distant future we can have
a disk formatting command which is not restricted to 16 bits?

> Michael Downes
> mjd@ams.org

Ken Smith
kgs@maths.uq.oz.au