tds draft 0.9991

[Paul A Vojta]

> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 07:58:03 +0100 (MEZ)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at>
> To: twg-tds@tug.cs.umb.edu
> Subject: Re: tds draft 0.9991
> 
> > Do the authors of ps2pk and gsftopk have a view on this?
> > If they don't mind the output from their respective programs to be
> > intermingled then I don't see that anyone else should mind either.
> 
> Well, for my CJK package I have written two additional converters: ttf2pk 
> and hbf2gf

That's two more reasons to lump things into a "modeless" subdirectory.
Now dvi drivers have to look in texmf/fonts/pk/{ps2pk,gsftopk,ttf2pk}
as well as in texmf/fonts/pk/(the mode).  If they want gf files, there's
texmf/fonts/gf/hbf2gf, in addition.

> ---I think it's a nice feature to see where the pk file comes from.

Ps2pk puts its version number as a special (or something) in the pk file
that it creates.  Gsftopk doesn't right now, but it would be an easy thing
to add.

Is there a suggested format for these specials that the TDS says PK
files should contain?

> Maybe you can make the `modeless' feature you mention as an option.

That would be worse than just choosing one or the other.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu (temporarily at ias.edu)