tds draft 0.9991

[Paul A Vojta]

In the TDS (under the section of "is there a better way"), it says:

> Modeless bitmaps
>
> The TDS specifies using utility names as mode names for those utilities
> which generate bitmaps, e.g., `texmf/fonts/pk/gsftopk/'. An alternative
> was to introduce a single directory `modeless/' below which all such
> directories could be gathered. This has the considerable advantage of
> not requiring each such directory name to be listed in a search path. 

In other words, you're talking about `texmf/fonts/pk/modeless/gsftopk/adobe...'.
How about considering instead `texmf/fonts/pk/modeless/adobe...'?  I really
don't see a need to separate font files by who created them.  If somebody
wants to delete all the pk files created by gsftopk, let them blow away
the whole modeless tree; things will reappear automagically.  Or, it's
possible to write a utility to read the pk files for specials indicating
which program created the pk file.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu