Am Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:02:59 +0200 schrieb [email protected]: > Hi All, > I know that XeTeX can use type1 font like traditionnal TeX engines (by > reading tfm, fd files etc.). > > In addition, XeTeX seems too to be able to use the type1 fonts installed on > the system. > But unlike for the OpenType font where all the information about the > characters > (kerning table, ligature table etc.) is located inside the font file, a useful > subset of this information is located in the AFM file in the case of type1 > font. > > My question is then: can XeTeX use such information and in the case it can, > how can it use it ? Should the AFM files be located in the same directory > as the type outlines description (for instance when the font is loaded by file > name instead of font name)?
A search in the archive of the mailing list got this: http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/xetex/2006-August/004855.html Which in short means that informations in the afm are partly used if found. The search path is not described but fonts/afm in a texmf tree sound logical. As it seems that ligatures don't work I would say that you should avoid it. (I don't know if this has changed in the meantime.) -- Ulrike Fischer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
