Re: [Devel] ttf2tfm/ttf2pk: patches

[Werner LEMBERG]

> By the way, I tested some other program to generate .tfm files, and
> it does generate incorrect bounding boxes in .vf files (not in raw
> .tfm files) (it was afm2tfm). It doesn't work because at TeX level,
> only the .vf file is read to typeset. As such, height is taken from
> the badly bboxed chars in the .vf file, which can lead to bad boxes
> (especially in titles).

You should send a bug report to the afm2tfm maintainer.

> > And what about your patch for providing a user-defined x height
> > (which I never put in)?  If you think this is still useful please
> > resubmit it.
> 
> This is much less useful since you put in another test that takes
> the height of letter 'x' as default x-height. I can add it easily,
> however.  I still have the patch around.

Well, I really can't decide whether this option is needed or not.
Maybe for non-latin scripts like Hebrew?

> Btw, I do not know if it is possible to change my e-mail addresses
> in the CVS files. My only permanent address is:
> address@hidden
> The other one will cease to be active in a year from now.

Theoretically yes, AFAIK, but I don't know exactly how, and I don't
have time to play with the CVS.


    Werner