Dear all,

I wrote my Thesis using Aleksandr's work, so I would be extremely happy to
be able to load it in 'standard TeXmacs'. A word of encouragement!


-รก.


On 15 November 2012 06:22, Aleksandr Dobkin <adob...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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