Re: checksum inconsistencies for virtual postscript fonts on CTAN

["Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

At 01:58 PM 98/07/27 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> > By the way, consider downloading lw35nfsx.zip instead of lw35nfss.zip
> > It is 150k instead of 800k and provides most of the same capabilities
> > at much lowered complexity.  And no checksum nightmares between

>The devil is in the detail, of course. That word "most". 
>LY1 is fine, great, but it isn't T1. The aim of the stuff I generated
>was to support OT1 and T1 encoding.

Oh sure, if your focus is on implementing OT1 and T1..

But somehow this is a lower level detail of the _real_ aim, which is
to provide ready-made accented characters so hyphenation can
work in TeX.  And that higher level aim is well-served by LY1 :-)

Regards, Berthold.

Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, MA		mailto:bkph@ai.mit.edu