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Re: Behaviour of \latinfamily



>>> Then it calls \latin_weights, which does a number of calls such as
>>>
>>> \latin_weight{r}{m}
>>> \latin_weight{s}{sb}
>>> \latin_weight{b}{b}
>>>
>>> Each of these calls stores the arguments in the variables \font_weight
>>> and \latex_weight and continues to call \latin_widths.
>
>> Right. (I think).  Is \latex_weight used as the specifier in the fd file,
>> and \font_weight used to find an appropriate afm/mtx file to build an
>> output mtx/pl file from?
>
>Exactly.
[snip more incredibly useful stuff]
>Hope it'll help.

I has, tremendously.  I can get somewhere now.

Thanks
Rowland.