[luatex] luatex - font encoding for type 1 fonts

[Pali Rohár]

On Friday 24 June 2016 14:14:24 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 6/24/2016 2:10 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >On Friday 24 June 2016 14:01:25 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>On 6/24/2016 1:33 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >>
> >>>>(2) the several
> >>>>cs related packages don't seem to come with afm files,
> >>>
> >>>Not several, but all! Metrics are stored in ftm files, e.g. csr10.tfm.
> >>>For each font there is metafont source code, tex metrics and for some
> >>>also type1 variant (as pfb file): csr10.mf csr10.tfm csr10.pfb
> >>
> >>afaiks no afm files
> >
> >And why do you need afm files? Are not TeX metrics (tfm) enough?
> 
> then you can just load the font (given that the afm matches the pfb)

AFM file contains just font metrics, right? Why is TFM file (which
contains also metrics) usable? What I trying understand is where is the
problem as until now TFM + PFB was enough...

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Pali Rohár
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