What about TFM ? (was Re: [pdftex] Math Pdftex extensions ?)

[Vladimir Volovich]

"TH" == Taco Hoekwater writes:

 TH> When we are talking about opentype, tfm+vf is not a suitable
 TH> format (8bit with lots of limitations) so some rethinking is
 TH> needed anyway.

it would be great if we could merge omega's 16-bit font support into
pdf(e)tex (and e.g. aleph is a merge of omega and etex, so we would
"only" need to merge with pdftex-only featured); then ofm+ovf will be
a suitable format...

Best,
v.