I'm a bit busy with work at the moment, but I will take a look at this in detail in the next few days.
I would expect that there would subtle but significant changes to the metrics. For example, ligatures would be used. It may event be desirable to scale the fonts so they work better together. All the code and files should be available at https://gitorious.org/~adob - Alex On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoe...@texmacs.org>wrote: > Dear Aleksandr, > > I am in the mood for starting a (partial?) reorganization of the font > system, > so it might be good to have a more in depth discussion on the font issues > now, > if you have time for that, of course. > > First of all, I would first like to integrate the improved fonts that > you generated in the standard distribution instead of a plug-in. > My understanding is that we should start with the fonts in > Format -> (Font) Name -> Adouble -> * > > I have a few questions related to this: > > 1) How much change is there in the font metrics? > Can we use the same tfm files (not changing the line breaking), > or should we foresee some non backward compatible typesetting changes? > > 2) Could you please prepare a patch with a replacement of all adobe fonts > with your fonts (preferrably keeping the same names, but just > substituting the fonts; we might change the 'Adobe' menu name > into something else, if needed)? Please make the patch such that > it removes all the old fonts and any stuff which is no longer needed. > > Next up, I have some plans to implement support for the native Qt fonts. > I am taking into consideration your code. Or maybe we should have > something such as a qt_font. I am not sure to what extent we can > throw out the TeX font mechanisms. For instance, it seems to me that > backward compatability requires me to keep the existing tfm support. > Any opinions on this? If we replace all pfb fonts by opentype, > would you have time to do the necessary conversions? > What exactly would that buy us (increased quality? more uniformness?). > > Best wishes, --Joris > > > ----- > PS: the following links do no longer work: > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/sample3.pdf > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/TeXmacs-fonts.tar.gz > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/sample3.tm > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/384906/fonts-patch/native-fonts.patch > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >
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