[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > Hallo Florent,
Hallo, and thanks for the report. >> Maybe this can be changed in the afm files, and the tfm files >> regenerated with afm2tfm? I wouldn't feel comfortable with that. I would prefer using tftopl on the tfm files, modifying the fontdimens in the PL file and using pltotf to get back to the TFM format. Also, I think modifying the afm files would bring nothing, because I would be very surprised if the AFM specification knew about fontdimens (if you look at the lmodern AFM files, you'll see the fontdimens in Comment lines). > There is a better possibility - you can change the \fontdimen parameter > in lmodern.sty, giving it a new version number. This way it is clear > that it is a Debian-patched version. This is nice, because it is easy (text file), traceable for the user and the change would affect only one file. However, this solution has the disadvantage, compared to the one where we would alter the TFM files, that it would not fix anything for non-LaTeX users (such as plain TeX or ConTeXT users), I guess. > The essentials of the patch can be found at > > http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=Xns94F369657E5B6nililandnililandabcd%40nililand.de OK. > (german, but the important stuff is in TeX which you understand > better). If you are willing to apply such a patch, I offer my help in > preparing it. Very nice, thank you. I tried to convert lmtt10.tfm to a .pl and turn the .pl back to a .tfm to check whether the process is "lossless". The resulting TFM file is not identical to the original one, but the only differences are located in the following strings (which appear to be the only non-binary stuff in the TFM files): Original file | After a round-trip conversion ------------------------------------------------ FontSpecific | FONTSPECIFIC LMTypewriter10 | LMTYPEWRITER10 So, perhaps this is not very important and we can consider the conversion "approximately lossless". What do you think? -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
