Tadziu Hoffman wrote: > For the sake of argument, I will contest this. The default > setup for the ps device -- analogous to, for example, > the lj4 device -- should create output that can be sent > to the corresponding printer -- Postscript or PCL -- using > whatever fonts are provided by the device itself. As such, > the metrics should correspond to those of the builtin fonts. > Anything else should be delegated to an add-on package.
I have to take issue with this. My printer (lj4) does not have the fonts, its builtin fonts I cannot use because I require to preview before printing. Everything is done via GhostScript. In any case I have made a version of devps and generate which creates the troff metrics from the URW fonts. Thus now what I see in the previewer is what I get. I did it this way as my other scripts did not do some of the hacks (eg to Symbol). I had to rewrite `afmnames', and add some other scripts. There are still two problems: (1) the font I call Times-Roman appears in the generated postscript as NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu; (2) there are kerns and ligatures in The Courier family. The ligatures have been removed. Two useful options to afmtodit would be to (a) change the internal name; (b) remove kern data. I'll post my installation scripts. As they are sizeable how should I do this? Denis M. Wilson
