[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX 0.4 available

[Jonathan Kew]

On 21 Apr 2004, at 2:38 pm, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Regarding the conversion of CM fonts, for getting correctly encoded 
> OTF fonts, did you use PfaEdit (FontForge) also, or did you switch to 
> another tool?
>

I originally used PfaEdit, for the fonts that were included with 0.3; 
but (at least with the version I used, which may not have been totally 
current), this led to problems with the fonts in Acrobat, and the fact 
that something was seriously amiss could be seen if you installed those 
fonts in /Library/Fonts and tried to use them in TextEdit.

The fonts included with the 0.4 installer were processed with FontLab 
instead, and seem to work more consistently. However, things are still 
fragile, as XeTeX is not accessing the fonts through the normal 
encoding vectors. I'm looking at the possibility of supporting the 
dvips font map and encoding files, as a more robust approach to these 
fonts.

Jonathan