Re: PostScript font installation: my evolving tools...

[Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr>]

« Concernant « Re: PostScript font installation: my evolving tools... », Sebastian Rahtz écrit :
« «  > 
« «  >     \shiftglyph{b}{0}{-25}{0}
« «  >     \shiftglyph{d}{0}{25}{0}
« «  >     \shiftglyph{f}{150}{0}{25}
« «  >     \shiftglyph{g}{0}{-50}{0}
« «  > 
« «  > ... which didn't seem a very satisfactory solution -- ideally I'd like to
« «  > have an algorithm to do this.
« « I dont think Alan ever derived one, he just experimented until it
« « looked good
« 
« i believe until his published example in TUGboat looked good! much
« more side-bearing corrections & skewkerns are required if you intend
« to do something serious with mathptm. I wrote for my personnal use a
« shell script that corrects all side-bearings/advance width & skewkerns
« from a text font (essentially : avoiding negative side bearings, and
« computing the italic correction to have an honest skewkern). I had
« however to correct a lot of them by hand. i am not really interested
« in sharing the script as it demonstrates my poor programming abilities
« far too much.
«    Thierry Bouche.       -----       thierry.bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr
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