[tex-live] TeXlive infrastructure

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu May 4 23:51:45 CEST 2006


Karl Berry wrote:
>       ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/fonts/adobe/afm/Adobe-Core35_AFMs-229.tar.gz
>       ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/fonts/adobe/afm/Adobe-Core35_AFMs-314.tar.gz
>
> Cool.
>
> Any idea how these afm's compare to the actual URW Type 1's?  Would it
> make sense to consider distributing these instead of whatever we have now?
>   
in addition, ok, instead: no (context uses urw afm files to generate 
metrics and as a result depends on related tfm names)
> I don't know if the afm's we distribute now correspond to the actual
> Type 1's, for that matter.
>   
if not, then we should live with that fact, since different afm's would mean different derived metrics and different rendering 

Hans 

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