Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: questions about creating virtual font files Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 90 14:52:47 GMT References: <22927.9010121655@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 30 In-reply-to: tml@tik.vtt.fi's message of 17 Oct 90 00:57:07 GMT In article tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: 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 well, in that case Knuth's example in Tugboat is misleading. I'm prepared to believe it is, but wanted confirmation 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... I solved my own problem by observing that Adobe metric files always use the same amount (in a given font) to move back and up to place an accent over a letter. By using solely their rules and composite characters, at least it shifts the blame from TeX to Adobe! sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)