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Re: fontinst with 8y.etx
- To: Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr>, rebecca@astrid.u-net.com (Rebecca and Rowland)
- Subject: Re: fontinst with 8y.etx
- From: "Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 20:09:24 -0400
- Cc: Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr, hshlgaii@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk, tex-fonts@math.utah.edu, pdftex@tug.org
- In-Reply-To: <199806112128.XAA22577@mozart.ujf-grenoble.fr>
- References: <l03130302b1a5c6c78b0c@[194.119.133.233]>
At 11:28 PM 98/06/11 +0200, Thierry Bouche wrote:
>> At 4:11 pm +0200 11/6/98, Thierry Bouche wrote:
>> True, the names aren't `fontname' compliant (horrid phrase), but is this
>> such a bad thing?
>no, indeed i was asking that because of possible clashes between TFMs
>with the same names & different checksuls, if the names are different,
>there is no problem (unless y&y apps use the checksum to verify if the
>encoding is correct, or other very strange ideas alike).
I see your French-English dictionary has a mistaken entry for
`very good', giving instead `very strange' :-) Hiding the encoding
information in the otherwise useless checksum seems like a good idea.
And the algorithm is not proprietary :-) I posted it here a while back.
Regards, Berthold.
Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, MA mailto:bkph@ai.mit.edu