[tex-live] lambda, omega, latex.ini

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Wed May 12 14:43:49 CEST 2004


"TE" == Thomas Esser writes:

 TE> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:52:08AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
 >> i only use permanently present fonts (i haven't used a metafont in years)
 TE>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 TE> There are also tools to generate metrics for type1 fonts on the
 TE> fly, ...

Furthermore, the presence of a TFM file does not guarantee usability
of the font in PDFTeX or during the run of dvips or a DVI viewer.

So i completely agree with this:

 TE> Anyway, I don't think that we really want to have tfm files in
 TE> the texinputs searchpath.

Best,
v.



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