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From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
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Subject: Re: questions about creating virtual font files
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Date: 20 Oct 90 14:49:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: marcel@cs.caltech.edu's message of 15 Oct 90 23:57:15 GMT

In article <1990Oct15.235715.17666@nntp-server.caltech.edu> marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) writes:

   In Dutch the combination `ij' is probably best considered a single
   letter.
thanks for the thoughts. I think i see what to do

   parts I would like to make the `ij' into a ligature, to make input {``}
   produce a lowered {''}, and to add a ligature for `fj' (you mean,
   Knuth's dictionary doesn't contain ``fjord''?!?). Is there a way to
   do that without having to load a whole separate set of fonts for
   the Dutch text? Are virtual fonts the way to do this, or is there
   something simpler, just with macros? Does one need to understand
   MetaFont to use virtual fonts, or are the two unrelated?
virtual fonts *will* do what you want, and no, you dont need to know
Metafont. Take your chosen font's TFM file, run TFtoPL, called it
<newfont>.vpl and start with that as the basis of your hacking.
Knuth's article in Tugboat at the start of this year contains
sufficient examples, I have found

Sebastian



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