Re: [Devel] [ freetype-Feature Requests-514543 ] Support for TeX's .pk/.tfm fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I was given a fully glossed (ie. extremely well commented) version
> of the source for pktype and tftopl which document the pk and .tfm
> formats, and I'll be happy to send out copies if anyone wants to
> take this on (I was told that it was not to be posted to the web
> though).

I would like to have it!

> The big problem I had with the format:
>      * the encoding is not well specified. The .tfm file contains a
>        string that names the encoding. Valid names given are
>        "Ascii", "TeX text" and "Unspecified".

The encoding can be arbitrary, so there is no concept of a `valid
name'.

> Personally I suspect that supporting .mf files would be far too much
> work to justify the results.  But if anyone does write code that
> converts .mf format into a set of postscript/truetype type outlines
> I would love to see it...

Ha!  This is similar to finding the philosopher's stone.  The nearest
result is MetaPost, but this doesn't support all mf commands.


     Werner