problem with \installrawfont

Lars Hellström Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se
Tue, 15 May 2001 14:10:15 +0200


At 13.05 +0200 2001-05-15, Han The Thanh wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>when trying to make a 8y-encoded font using
>
>\installrawfont{StoneSans8y}{StoneSans}{8y}{LY1}{}{}{}{}
>
>I got a pl file where many composite glyphs are missing (for example
>udieresis). The glyphs are in the afm file.

You have to reencode the font metrics to 8y first. \installrawfont is
different from the \mtxtopl that \transformfont calls mainly in that it
includes a ligkern table, fontdimens, etc. in the font; it cannot change
the encoding or add new glyphs.

Lars Hellström