X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["593" "Fri" "18" "April" "1997" "09:22:28" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "18" "Re: Alternatives to LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA19711; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:23:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <9.F25A8000@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:22:56 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 127030 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:22:52 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id KAA06302 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:22:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA14031 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:20:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:22:38 +0100 Received: from lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.216.1]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA23994 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:22:30 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA14371; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:22:28 +0100 (BST) References: Message-ID: <199704180822.JAA14371@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:22:28 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Alternatives to LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1986 > When using PS fonts directly in Textures, I think there will be an > encoding problem. At least for math fonts, you could not hope just using sure, you have to address encoding. so what? its been done. > discussed here. One can convert PS font metric to TeX font metric, but TeX > can have more glyphs in a font, which allows for more kerning information, > for example. this is, excuse me, a meaningless sentence. TeX can see no more glyphs in a font than it has... > >it depends how i set it up! > > So the problem is that it is a lot of work setting it up. > only once s