Re: fontname postfixes

[Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 10:27:14AM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote:
 
> I agree with Karl. Please, don't introduce any other scheme or any other
> map file. Installing ps fonts is complicated enough. If you "invent" some
> incompatible scheme for xdvik, things will become even more difficult.

I agree that there should not be any other scheme,
but please can you not write (or at least allow)
psfonts.map in standard key=value format,
eg source=squiggle.pbf,encoding=xyz.enc,...

At present it is unintelligible except to a handful of cognoscenti.


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