[Fontinst] DESIGNUNITS and (un)rounded reals

[Marco Kuhlmann]

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    Hi folks,

I want to use lcdf-typetools' (http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/)
otftotfm together with fontinst to install Adobe's Minion Pro on my TeX
distribution.  Unfortunately, the programs seem to have different
understandings of what constitutes a correct pl file.

(a)  otftotfm sets DESIGNUNITS to 1000, while fontinst seems to expect it
to be 1.  (Is that correct?)  This leads to the following error message:

! PL-to-MTX error:
        Nondefault unit used in PL file.

(b)  fontinst can not deal with some of the numerical values emitted by
otftotfm; it seems to always expect a dotted decimal, even if there are
only zeros on the right hand side of the dot (eg, 1.00 instead of 1):

! Paragraph ended before \pl_rounded_real was complete.

I have never studied the spec for the pl format, but it would be
interesting of course to reach a common ground on these issues.  Do you
have any opinions on this?

    - Marco
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