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- From: "Tundra" Tim Daneliuk <tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us>
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: the virtual font craze
- Message-ID: <9301251110.AA00513@eskimo.chi.il.us>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:10:36
- Organization: TundraWare
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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
- >
- While we're asking for the shedding of light: I for one, would like to see
- (or have its location named if it already exits) a tutorial on font handling
- generally within TeX. Topics could include the role of MetaFont, purpose
- and installation of NFSS, and so on. The problem is that attacking
- these topics without any tutorial intro is a little intimidating.
-
- Just a thought...
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