Re: once more about encodings (ver. 2.4.2)

[pdz]

Rob V wrote:
> Werner,
>
> I would like to make a request about the font encoding (but I think
> I'm late for your meeting).  I don't know if this is possible, or if
> I can even describe it correctly, but I think it would be nice to
> have the encoding work the same as in a latex document.
>
>
> Rob

Werner,
how was your meeting?
Did you come up with anything interesting in the matter of fonts?

And Rob,
there is a need for some more general solution of the fonts stuff, I 
suppose. As you have probably noticed, 2.4 introduced postscript 
'backend'. I don't quite understand what's that for, but I imagine that 
as PS doesn't need TeX at all to produce output, so the TeX backend will 
be eventually phased out. And when I use ps backend -- tex/latex font 
encoding doesn't work at all.

(please correct me if i'm wrong somewhere in the above)

Pawel