Re: fontname postfixes

[Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>]

Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> tastet:
> "BH" == Berthold Horn writes:
> 
>  BH> (3) Another feature of psfonts.map is to say how to reencode text
>  BH> fonts.  Again, since one normally has to use the same text font
>  BH> encoding throghout, this can be done automatically by a global
>  BH> setting of encoding vector for all text fonts.
> 
> think of cyrillic users :) they have to use often at least two
> encodings: some latin (T1 or OT1) and some cyrillic (T2A, T2B, T2C,
> OT2, etc). so it is not possible/good to specify some global setting
> for encoding.

I wasn't going to.  xdvik with type1 support will handle slanting and
extentions and multipele encodings.  My e-mails seem to have been less
than clear.  The thing I was going on about was 400 line fontmaps when
50 lines of exceptions would suffice (at least in western europe).

Nicolai