[texhax] ?encoding? suffices in the TeX Live Adobe font TFMs

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 20 October 2009 Philip TAYLOR wrote:

 > Ah, that is interesting : I know nothing about "psfonts.map"
 > and had been intending to use virtual fonts; is it the case
 > that I would not need virtual fonts, PdfTeX being able to
 > re-map fonts on the fly based on information in "psfonts.map" ?

Hi Phil,
"psfonts.map" is described in the dvips manual.  pdfTeX uses its own
map file, "pdftex.map", described in the pdfTeX manual.  Both files
are quite similar.  However, don't edit these files, they are created
automatically by updmap[-sys].  

I don't know what you intend, but if you change the font encoding, you
almost always have to create a new tfm file.  At least unless you are
talking about monospaced fonts.

BTW, if you are using pdfTeX, you can use the primitive \pdfmapline
instead of creating map files.

If you need assistance, the tex-fonts mailing list is certainly a good
place to ask. 

Regards,
  Reinhard

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha			              Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover	                      mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------