Ligatures in Lucida Bright?

Troels Roussau Johansen troelsj at MATH.LSU.EDU
Tue May 18 11:59:22 CEST 2004


Thanks for the reply Mimi.

> there are ligatures  ;-)

Excellent! -- except now I probably end up buying the fonts ;-)


> Unfortunately, the three types of font metric files do NOT contain
> exactly the same kind of information.  For example, neither PFM nor
> TFM files contain the full encoding vector (see below), and PFM files
> do not contain ligature information.  Also, neither PFM nor TFM files
> have ANY information on unencoded characters (see below).  It is
> therefore best to view the human-readable AFM file as the base form
> from which the binary metric files can be derived.  Utilities are
> supplied with DVIWindo and DVIPSONE (and in the `Font Manipulation
> Package') for doing this.
>  .../

>From what I can gather, the utility afm2tfm can perform the same conversion.
Perhaps I should give it a try.

/Troels




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