[pdftex] Re: teTeX mod for Mac fonts (was Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Font question)

[Troy Goodson]

At 8:30 AM +0100 11/7/01, Rolf Marvin B¯e Lindgren wrote:
>[William Adams]
>
>| [Troy Goodson]
>|
>| | Are you saying that there is information that TeX needs to know about
>| | a font but is not included in Mac OS X fonts?
>
>| Not merely that, but Mac OS X's bundled fonts are in weird, proprietary
>| formats (.dfont---``data fork'' font format which is a normal Mac
>| suitcase-style font flopped from the resource fork where it normally
>| resides).
>
>I'm happily using MacOS X fonts under pdftex for Linux, having converted
>them from MacOS X to Windoze format using a commercial tool.

I guess this is something of an existence proof, but isn't more 
appropriate for teTeX to have built-in support for Mac OS X fonts?