S> pfaedit has an auto-hinting capability supporting horizontal, vertical and
S> diagonal hints - if that is enough, we are there already.
I'm not sure how good their autohinting is. I think that the best
solution would be to start with the generated hints, and then retouch
them by hand where necessary.
S> and could not see any names for Bengali, i.e. Unicode U+0980 though U+09FF.
S> What am I missing?
Other posters have already replied to this point.
S> I presume you are suggesting that I use "STARTMAPPING postscript"?
Yes. But you should have both a ``postscript'' and a ``unicode''
mapping, so that the same encoding file can work with both Type 1 and
TTF fonts.
S> Oh, I meant taking the glyphs from an existing XFree86 font. I
S> presume that would be OK?
Not necessarily. It's a complicated matter.
Juliusz
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