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- From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: the virtual font craze
- Message-ID: <9301251122.AA02295@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 11:22:15 GMT
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- Wolfgang Ratzka writes:
-
- >I'm not so sure wether Christoph Kukulies' longing for good
- >collection of virtual fonts' is not based on a misunderstanding. As
- >much as I understand (please correct me), virtual fonts are mainly a
- >means to
- >
- >- utilize internal fonts of an output device (e. g. PostScript)
- >
- >- rearrange the encoding of a font and do fancy things with accented
- > characters.
- >
-
- I agree with your suggestion to shed some light on the usefulness
- of virtual fonts and what actually can be done with them.
-
- --Chris
-