[twg-tds] font map and encoding files

[Olaf Weber]

Paul Vojta writes:

> 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.)

Good point.

Some general questions:
- is the syntax for these map files really unified, so a single parser
  can handle them all?
- if not, should it be?

I can imagine a setup where you have something like
        texmf/fontmap/ttf
        texmf/fontmap/type1
that keeps the subtypes apart for those who want them kept apart.  On
the other hand, which types do we have to distinguish: type1, ttf,
type42 -- is opentype yet another type for this purpose?

I'm not sure I know enough about the way the map files are ultimately
used to tell.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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