[tex-live] Re: UTF8 and (La)TeX backend?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >     Ideally, those OpenType TeX fonts should behave similar to any
> >     other OpenType font; this means the loss of italic correction
> >     (which isn't available in OpenType fonts), for example, but it
> >     assures that the font interface doesn't have to cope with
> >     special cases.
> 
> That's not going to work completely, not only do we loose italic
> correction, but also design size.  Can't we agree with other parties
> (tetex?) on a standard SFNT table for TeX specific information?

That's an excellent idea, so I'm forwarding this to the relevant
mailing lists.  George already has started with three SFNT tables in
fontforge:

  ITLC  italic correction
  TCHL  TeX charlist
  TEXL  TeX extension list

Maybe we should add a fourth table to hold the missing bits...


    Werner