Re: Problems with Polish letters

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:23:57 +0200, Ian Carr-de Avelon wrote:

> @Char dropped (character "nacute" unknown in font Times Base)

Use TimesCE Base et al.  Look at data/latin2.ld - it defines latin2
fonts with CE suffix.

But be warned that unless you have fonts with real latin2 glyphs you
will need to tweak font/*+ files to add composites for polish letters.
It seems that those extra metrics were sumbitted by a Czech person, so
they cover only portions of latin2 necessary for Czech.

E.g. for font/Ti-Rm+ add to extra char metrics and build comosites
accordingly:

    C -1 ; WX 389 ; N sacute ; B 51 -10 348 678 ;

    CC sacute 2 ; PCC s 0 0 ; PCC acute 56 0 ;

and so on for other letters.

You can, perhaps, use accfont from CTAN to automate the process,
somewhat.  Though I would suggest to invest some work into placing
accents manually.  Fortunately you can look at existing composites for
similarly shaped letters - e.g. the sacute example above is written
with existing acute composite in Times-Roman used as a pattern.  You
can even automate this process with a perl script.

Don't forget to submit your Polish extra metrics to Jeff for inclusion
in next release ;-).

Hope this helps.

SY, Uwe
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