[twg-tds] font map and encoding files

[Paul Vojta]

> From: Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
> Subject: Re: [twg-tds] font map and encoding files
> To: <twg-tds@tug.org>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:35:23 +0100
> 
> > You're forgetting about ttfonts.map and the encoding files associated to
> > ttf2{tfm,pk}.  IMHO it would be better to set things up so that people
> > can keep their ttf and PS enc/map files separate.  I think.  (I'm not
> > sure about whether a ttf enc file would be useless as a type1 map file.)
> 
> I am not sure if a separation into ttf/ps makes sense for map files /
> enc files. pdftex, for example can handle ps and ttf fonts, so pdftex's
> map files can have entries for both at the same time.

I'll have to look at pdftex's map files a little more.

> I have already suggested to provide subdirectories for map files, so
> some tool could have a searchpath of e.g.
>   .:texmf/fontmap/<some tool>:texmf/fontmap/generic:texmf/fontmap//
> 
> As for the enc files: are there really file with the same name in
> the ps/ttf worlds which would conflict here? In that case, I suggest
> to have something like texmf/fontenc/ps and texmf/fontenc/ttf,
> so we can put the files at their approriate place.

I wasn't thinking about the possibility of enc files with the same names,
just that if someone's looking for an enc file to use with font X, then
they shouldn't have to look through enc files that are obviously inapplicable.

One more question:

Since these are encoding and map files for *fonts*, shouldn't they
go under texmf/fonts?

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