Fontinst modifications

Sebastian Rahtz s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk
Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:08:27 +0100


Thierry Bouche writes:
 > PS yes, typically, Berthold & URW fonts have far too many kerns for a
 > typical tex installation : you need a web2c 7 (you can use pdftex if
 > you already have that on you system) with large texmf.cnf
careful, Rowland and  Lars live on crippled computer systems,
remember...

 > values. You'll notice however that the VPL you get need also an
 > enlarged vptovf... (like the one on Tex live 3)
 > 
its worse than than that. some investigations by Wayne Sullivan into
my metrics reveal that all of tftopl, pltotf, vptovf, and vftovp need
capacities enlarging, and that vftovp has a genuine bug which fontinst
kicks with the compoundwordmark. thats why latin.mtx needs an empty
content for that glyph.

sebastian