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[Apostolos Syropoulos]

>No. 
OpenType 
can 
be 
composed 
from 
TrueType 
or 
PostScript. 
Even 
if 
it  

>is 
TrueType, 
OpenType 
has 
a 
lot 
more 
useful 
information 
in 
tables.  

>Small 
Caps, 
old 
time 
digits, 
alternative 
glyphs 
... 
cannot 
be 
encoded  

>in 
Unicode. 
The 
option 
you 
have, 
is 
to 
put 
this 
into 
PUA, 
Private 
Use  

>Area. 
But 
then 
TeX 
or 
an 
editor 
needs 
to 
know 
about 
that 
...  

>independently 
whether 
this 
wealth 
is 
PostScript 
or 
TrueType 
based 
In plain "English": a TrueType font is an OpenType font without any
tables. Consequently, every TrueType font is an OpenType font.
To verify this statement, try otfinfo -i SomeTrueTypeFont.ttf
A.S.


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