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Re: fontinst with 8y.etx
- To: Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr>, Hilmar Schlegel <hshlgaii@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
- Subject: Re: fontinst with 8y.etx
- From: Rebecca and Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:43:26 +0100
- Cc: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk, tex-fonts@math.utah.edu, pdftex@tug.org
- In-Reply-To: <199806111411.QAA13180@mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr>
- References: <357F1B04.6918@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de><199806101548.RAA15979@attila.uni-duesseldorf.de><357F1B04.6918@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
At 4:11 pm +0200 11/6/98, Thierry Bouche wrote:
>I'm trying to generalize the audience of this debate.
[snip]
>Well, does there exist something working proprely on unices, macoses &
>windowses95-99/Nt?
>Doesn't that whole question seem surrealistic to you, talking of some
>_portable_ doc format???!!
>From what I gather, reading various posts here and there about Acrobat
Reader, different versions of the reader for different platforms develop
apparently arbitrary bugs which then disappear in a later version. I think
some people have suggested that the bug level is constant, and there's no
one solution that deals with all the bugs.
[snip]
>but y&y doesn't put its ton of LY1 TFMs on CTAN, and they don't
>conform to karl berry names?
I suspect Y&Y would be happy to have its LY1 tfms on CTAN if you asked; as
it is, Y&Y has made a full set of LY1 tfms available on its own web server.
True, the names aren't `fontname' compliant (horrid phrase), but is this
such a bad thing?
[snip]
Rowland.