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Re: Behaviour of \latinfamily
- To: rebecca@astrid.u-net.com
- Subject: Re: Behaviour of \latinfamily
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:13:24 +0100
- Cc: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <l03130304b193d1ba65b8@[194.119.133.41]>
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Rebecca and Rowland writes:
> On the other hand, it took me 1/2 hour to turn what you emailed into
> something I could understand (quite a lot of that was working out a form of
> notation that I could understand and would fit on a single sheet of A4 - it
> took a few tries). Do you see what I mean about several orders of
> magnitude harder for me? I'm not thick, but I don't think like the average
> computer programmer.
Possibly you need to tell us what notation you desire. Since I am not
a computer programmer [1], I am not sure what they do either.
> Yes. I know what an integer is, but the LGC documentation says `int
> expr', *not* `int'. If the documentation had said `integer', I would know
> what sort of thing was needed. It doesn't: it says integer expression with
cos i stole that from Alan :-}
> >ligfull installation means that the ligature information in the AFM
> >file is copied to the output metric
>
> Right. How is it possible to do any other sort of installation, and why
> would you want to?
i think Alan covered that?
> S'all right, I don't expect miracles ;-)
thats not my observation...
sebastian
[1] I did a course on FORTRAN once but i left half way because they
wanted me to write a program to generate a Fibonacci series, and a) I
didn't know what that was, and b) didn't want to do it anyway