[pdftex] pdftex.map / virtual fonts / code pages

[Thierry Bouche]

Le mercredi 15 mai 2002 à 04:15:13, G. Brettschneider écrivit :


GDB> Now couldn't we build a more stable system by re-assembling the glyphs 
GDB> in the PostScript files according to the Unicode or ISO-8859-X codepages?

of course not. ISO-8859-x & unicode are character encodings whereas what
tex uses is glyphs.

GDB> They were still unknown the days Knuth proposed vf files, I guess. Will 
GDB> TeX survive if it falls back behind internet standards and remains in 
GDB> that virtual-cork-non-ascii-non-ansi-mess it has evolved to?

Surely it won't survive long ahead if it makes such mistakes...

-- 
 Thierry Bouche