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[Giovanni Biczó <address@hidden>]

Sorry, it seems I'm a bit slow in reading, and, as you will see, in 
understanding :))

On Friday 04 July 2003 18:49, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > I have two questions about about fonts: TM doesn't seem to use kerning
> > pair information of tfm-files. Is that true? If yes, please consider this
> > as a feature request :) Kerning pairs are very important in typesetting
> > in my opinion.
>
> No, TeXmacs supports ligatures and kerning.
Seems to me that TeXmacs prefers the metafont sources of fonts for generating 
tfm. I may be wrong, but if you look at (for example) Palatino, and you try 
the ligatures (fi, ffi and so on), non of them behaves like a ligature (at 
least on my machine): it's not a font problem, since under LaTeX this font 
has got the ligs. Same with the pair kerning (i tried the VA pair). It seems 
that the tfm (-> .mf) does not contain the required information. This is not 
the case if I use CM fonts.
>
> > And the second question: how can a non-standard font (one not provided by
> > the tetex distro) installed? The font (family) in correctly installed
> > under LaTeX and TeX, and after downloading the TeXmacs-fonts-1.0 package
> > and modifying it, I got the tfms and pks needed. But this does not mean
> > that I can also use them :(
> > Is there a doc or howto about font installation?
>
> Just put your fonts in $TEXMACS_PATH/fonts or ~/.TeXmacs/fonts
Ok. but how to actually use the fonts? Are they going to "appear" in the 
TeXmacs menu?
I got a bunch of tfm's for my font. But their names (for example: padr8a.tfm) 
seem not to be "compatible" with the naming scheme TeXmacs (+metafont...) 
use. I'm a bit confused now :(
Thanks in advance
Giovanni


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