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Re: 8r fonts

Thierry Bouche writes:
 > there is a pb with compwordmark in T1 fonts:
 > here is what you find in ptmr8t.vpl
 > 
 > (CHARACTER O 27
 >    (CHARWD R 0.0)
is this actually wrong?

 > also I thought cwm should be 1ex high?
yes, its true, Jorg changed that in EC didnt he. rats

 > opposed to what happens with adobe's afm). Maybe one day foundries
 > will provide good afms and all this discussion will loose its object.
bleeargh. but do i leave 8r.mtx as it is? Constantin, can you look?

 > following: how can I have fontinst believe that the font ptmr8r.mtx
 > has a raw glyph whose metrics are defined like this
preprocess the AFM file? i started looking at this too and
gave up after a short while

 > if it's not in the AFM. would it be easy to add an \adddotlessj to the
 > \transformfont sugar? or is there a better way?
maybe ALan can comment

sebastian