Re: fontinst 1.801 -- still worse

["Fernando Q. Gouvea" <fqgouvea@colby.edu>]

**** On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:03:04 +0100 (BST), "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> said:

 > Apparently so far only the people who developed the fontinst
 > stuff were using it seriously, and they already know all the
 > details, which are _not_ explained in the documentation ;-)

SR> evidence to the contrary is Alan Hoenig, who does not really class as a
SR> fontinst developer, but who certainly understands it

SR> but i concede there may be some truth in your remark...

Well, I use fontinst, and I wouldn't dream of getting involved in
development... It *is* unfortunate that so many of the details are omitted
from the documentation, but I've managed to use fontinst to set up several
of my Type 1 font families for use with TeX.

Fernando


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