On Jan 17, 2008 4:27 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The modified package is attached.
>
> Now my comments :-)
Thank you! Some problems, misunderstandings perhaps, see below.
> . In the tarball, the files c70dgjhw.fd and dgjhw.map have incorrect
> file permissions (the executable bit is set).
Corrected.
> . I suggest to have a TEXMF tree structure within the tarball giving
> a better guidance where to place which files.
>
> . In TeXLive, the TFM files, for example, are stored in
>
> fonts/tfm/wadalab/dmj/...
>
> I thus suggest
>
> fonts/tfm/wadalab/dgjhw/...
>
> as the target location. Similarly, I suggest
>
> fonts/map/dvips/wadalab/
>
> and
>
> tex/latex/CJK/contrib/wadalab/
OK, no problem to change this.
> . I'm not really happy that font is called `dgjhwff'. Its name
> should be simply `dgjhw'.
The font filename is dgjhw.sfd. Now, when I use the subfonts.pe script
to extract .pfb and .tfm subfont files under control of the
Unicode.sfd file, then what I get out is the dgjhwff.pfb/.tfm file,
since the characters are all in the 0xff range. So the subfont name
has the "ff" attached to it, but the font is called in latex using the
dgjhw name. It just doesn7t have any other characters in it. Now for
the other points you raised....
> I further suggest to use the SJIS code
> positions for the PFB encoding vector. This would allow to use
> the font directly for a C49 encoding (which is explicitly reserved
> for half-width katakana). Consequently, c49{goth,maru,min}.fd
> files should be added.
I have to study what to do here, since I am not yet very good at
tracing errors. I expected Unicode to be the natural way to encode;
you seem to prefer SJIS with a virtual font reencoding (which I also
need to study) for Unicode. So what about EUC as well then? Would that
also work via a different reencoding virtual font file?
> . For Unicode support I then suggest to create a virtual file
> `dgjhwff' which does the obvious mapping.
I think I understand in principle, but I need to check some examples
to find out how to do this.
> Additionally, TeXLive has a virtual font `udmj' which maps the
> Wadalab dmj family to Unicode. It might be a good idea to provide
> replacements for udmjff.vf and udmjff.tfm which add the half-width
> katakana appropriately so that you don't need to switch the family
> just to access the half-width katakana.
That would be very useful. I suppose I can hand-edit the .vf file. But
how is the .tfm file created? I only know how to do that with
fontforge using a particular encoding. Since I am starting out with a
.sfd file in Unicode mapping, I cannot directly output a .pfb file but
need to use the subfonts.pe script to split and output. Probably this
is the same if I choose SJIS encoding or something. I tried before
using "compact reencoding" but without success. suppose I need to
read the utility scripts in the CJK respository again. I can guess
that this will take me several days and then I will have questions
again about what I do not grok yet.
Regards, Gernot
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