Re: AFMs for Blue Sky CM/PS fonts...

[Thierry Bouche <Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr>]

Concernant « Re: AFMs for Blue Sky CM/PS fonts... », KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE écrit :
 > There are ,,official`` afm files for the cm fonts made by Pierre MacKay
 > using gf2afm on CTAN://fonts/cm/afm.
 > 
 > Pierre MacKay has invested some work to render all cm font dimensions in 
 > an afm file.
 > 
 > --J"org Knappen.
 
I checked that using fontinst on these afm files in the following way 
\afmtomtx{cmr10}{cmr10}
\mtxtopl{cmr10}{cmr10}

yields .pl files that are (after pltotf/tftopl) exactly equal to the
ones from metafont cms.

sounds good.
   Thierry Bouche.       -----       thierry.bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr
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