Thank you very much for responding, Thomas. >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >I am not sure I have understood everything you write, but here's a very >brief outline of what I think you need to do. There are two cases you >need to consider:
I am in case 1: pfb-normal + pfb-expert >1. You have more than one font (this seems to be your case), normally >these will be postscript type1 fonts (extensions .pfb or .pfa). If you >want to mix characters from two fonts (say, normal letters from font A, >oldstyle numerals and maybe small caps from font B), you can most >easily do this via a virtual font. It's not too hard; I wrote a small >how-to which you can find on CTAN >(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/virtualfontshowto/?action=/tex- >archive/info/) <snip> >So there is no simple answer to your question. TeX knows to pick up >zerooldstyle instead of zero either >1. because you have a virtual font that says MAPFONT 1, so it knows it >will have to use a different pfb than for the rest, or >2. because the encoding file points to character zerooldstyle within >the ttf. Ok, but Hans explicitly claimed to have done this for Latin Modern without virtual fonts, only encoding trickery (I'll c if I can find that message). Actually, I was really surprised when Hans said he could do this without virtual fonts, and have always been eager to learn the trick;-> With Alan Hoenig's help almost 2 years ago I contructed a complete virtual font for old style cmr using virtual fonts; I guess I can do that again (though with a non-TeX font I'm scared;-> I'll read your how-to). On the other hand, how will TeXFont handle virtual fonts? What does TeXfont need to do this correctly? Or do we just forget about TeXFont? Thanks again! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
