Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: questions about creating virtual font files Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 90 00:57:07 GMT References: <22927.9010121655@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 27 In-reply-to: S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 12 Oct 90 16:55:14 GMT Sebastian Rahtz writes: Is there anyone out there who actually uses virtual font files, other than, for instance, the automatic ones created by Rokicki's afm2tfm? I don't use them yet... but soon. can someone tell me when metrics are taken from the base TFM and when they are set to nothing (as apparently in this case)? As far as know, the vptovf program does not read the tfm files of the mapped-to fonts. It thus cannot copy any default metrics. You have to copy all the nonzero charwd, charht and chardp values yourself... 2) OK, so I want a Z with a dot over it for position 273. BUT, is there an easy way, other than visual testing, to determine the amount to step backwards and up? how can I derive it automatically from the metric for `z'? Use the same algorithm as TeX does, see make_accent etc. However, I have read that some people find the default placng of accents ugly for languages that use ``accented'' letters a lot, like Swedish and Finnish. I don't know... -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland