[twg-tds] font map and encoding files

Thomas Esser te@dbs.uni-hannover.de
Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:19:47 +0100


>       fonts/map/<utility>/<package>
>     for map files. 
> 
> I don't think it's precisely different utilities that count, but rather
> different syntaxes.  For example, dvips and xdvi and pdftex are all
> different programs, yet they use the same mapping files.
> 
> Since the psfonts.map syntax originated with dvips, I proposed to call
> the syntax "dvips" as well.

That's ok for me.

>     I don't think that grouping by font types makes sense.
> I agree.

>     I have no idea about enc files, but I assume that these are
>     utility-specific, too. So, again, I'd group them that way:
>       fonts/enc/<utility>
> 
> Again, fonts/enc/<syntax>, with the existing enc files as `dvips'.

That's ok for me, too.

> How does that sound?

Great. Any objections about doing it that way?

Thomas