[twg-tds] font map and encoding files

[Paul Vojta]

> From: Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
> To: <twg-tds@tug.org>
> Subject: [twg-tds] font map and encoding files
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:19:16 +0100
> 
> Hi,
> 
> after some discussion, Olaf Weber and I have decided that it would be a
> good idea to raise a topic on this list. The problem is about font map
> and encoding files.
> 
> Currently, there are several applications which can do something useful
> with font map files in (more or less) dvips compatible syntax:
>   dvips, pdftex, gsftopk, mktexpk (parsing it for ps2pk), xdvi,
>   updmap (part of teTeX-beta)
> A similar situation exists for encoding files (*.enc).
> 
> Currently, these applications misuse something like the TEXPSHEADERS
> path for this, which is not a good idea.
> 
> That's why Olaf and I suggest to extend the search library and to put
> these files into their proper place. Suggestions are
>   texmf/fontmap
> and
>   texmf/fontenc

You're forgetting about ttfonts.map and the encoding files associated to
ttf2{tfm,pk}.  IMHO it would be better to set things up so that people
can keep their ttf and PS enc/map files separate.  I think.  (I'm not
sure about whether a ttf enc file would be useless as a type1 map file.)

--Paul Vojta