[luatex] luatex - font encoding for type 1 fonts

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Sun Jun 26 15:15:31 CEST 2016


On 6/26/2016 1:44 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2016 11:30:44 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 6/25/2016 3:16 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
>>> Problem is that there are no AFM files for CSFonts (and IIRC never
>>> were). CSFonts are written in MetaFont and (from which were
>>> generated TFM files) and some subset of CSFonts (those which are
>>> often used) were later converted to Type 1 variant... Probably
>>> nobody generated yet AFM files for CSFonts as they were not
>>> needed, TeX handle just TFM files.
>>
>> with an afm file one can also use the fonts in other applications
>> than tex
>
> Ok, but I do not think that somebody is interested in CSFonts outside of
> TeX :-) At least I have not hear about it...

well, maybe not csr but others fonts ... (imagine you need to make a 
graphic is some application using fonts that match the main document) 
... anyway, csr is probably one of the few fonts not having an afm 
alongside

Hans


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