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From: pgd@bbt.se (P.Garbha)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: How to create composite characters ?
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.065725.13221@bbt.se>
Date: 23 Sep 90 06:57:25 GMT
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In article <457@echbull.bull.fr> mfc@medoc.ec.bull.fr (Matt.Caprile) writes:
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>I am trying to re-encode a font dictionary for ISO 8859/2 (characters
>for Eastern Europe), and am at a loss about how to create composite
>characters from existing characters and accents. (Example: creating
>/Zacute from the two characters /Z and /acute that already exist in
>the font).  I looked thru all of the Reference Manuals for
>PostScript, to no avail.
...
>Can someone enlighten me ?? It can't be all that difficult, can it ??

It is not all that easy. What you have to do is to make a font, that
for each character, instead of drawing the different parts of the
character, is calling the other font (with show), and putting in some
movetos to compose the character of the main character and the accent.
All the neccessary information on how to do this is in the colored
books, but no example.

As an alternative, you can decrypt the adobe font, putin your new
accented characters, and encrypt it again. Easy, but made messy by the
useless encryption jazz.

As a third alternative, get a program that can open the fonts and edit
the characters. Exists for the mac, and *real soon now* for MSDOS PC's.

In my opinion, it is quite messy, and a real miss from Adobe to not
consider that other contries have accented characters, and make
composition of them easy. Obviosly the postscript language is designed by a
programmer, and not a typograph.