Re: [luatex] dump a tfm to a file

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 21 jun. 2011, at 18:30, Ulrike Fischer <lua...@nililand.de> wrote:

> Am Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:33:26 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> 
>>> I know nothing about tex4ht except that it exists and is annoyingly hard
>>> to set up right (which is exactly why that is the only thing I know
>>> about it).
> 
> And this from the user of a system which so hard to set up that it
> breaks permanently in miktex ;-) 
> 

Actually, that quote was me talking. I don't think Mojca would claim that 
anything at all is hard to set up ;)

>> It is. See:
>>    /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/lm/lm-ec.htf
> 
> tex4ht doesn't use only this htf-files. At first it loads the tfm's
> of the fonts mentioned in the dvi (I don't know exactly why).

If it really needs TFMs, I do not think it can ever be compatible with luatex 
(or xetex, for that matter).

Best wishes,
Taco
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