possibly severe bug in fontinst 1.914

Walter Schmidt was@vr-web.de
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:56:06 +0100


Hi,

the following sequence of commands works fine with
fontinst 1.801:

\transformfont{padr8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{padr8a}}}
\fromafm{padri8x}
\installrawfont{padr8r}{padr8r,8r}{8r}{8r}{padj}{m}{n}{}
\installfont{padr9o}{padr8r,padr8x,latin}{OT1j}{OT1}{padj}{m}{n}{}

However, when I use fontinst 1.914, a file padr8r.pl 
with a positive slant value is written:

(FONTDIMEN
   (PARAMETER D 1 R 0.334)

Apparently, the slant valus from the preceding "\fromafm" 
command finds its way in.  Do I use \fromafm in a wrong way 
here, or is this a bug?


best wishes

Walter

PS:  fontinst is a GREAT piece of software; so I hardly
dare to complain about the few remaining bugs...