Re: dimension based checksums

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

At 08:26 AM 99/03/29 +0200, Laurent SIEBENMANN wrote:

> > For checking whether TFM files
> > are set up for the correct encoding, it is handy to
>make
> > fontdimen 0 be the checksum so you can interrogate it
> > from inside TeX...

>This makes sense since fontdimen 0 is NOT A DIMENSION but
>rather a pure number that is independant of the "at_size".
>(It is officially the tan of the angle of slant of the
>font.)

Err no.  That is fontdimen 1.  TeX has no fontdimen 0.
It wouldn't make sense to replace an existing dimension.

Regards Berthold.



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