[texhax] Virtual Font file format

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Apr 22 00:55:21 CEST 2012


On 2012-04-22 at 00:52:38 +0800, Peter Frane wrote:

 > I would like to ask where can I find a good documentation on the
 > Virtual Font file format? I've searched the Web with Google but
 > have no luck.  I am writing a DVI driver. Currently, it can convert
 > a DVI to EMF natively, and to PNG and PDF via the Cairo graphics
 > library. I don't use PK fonts; instead, I used the TFM files and
 > the corresponding PFM/PFB files.  Looking forward to hearing from
 > you.

AFAIK, this is the definite documentation:

  http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb11-1/tb27knut.pdf

Maybe

  http://ctan.mackichan.com/help/virtual-fonts.knuth

can be read more conveniently on screen.

Regards,
  Reinhard 

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