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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Sorry for the late reply...

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Giovanni Biczó wrote:
> 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.

We use the same ligature & kerning algorithm as TeX.
But it maybe that the Metafont ports of the postscript fonts
do not hard-encode ligature/kerning information into the 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 :(

You should take a look at the files in

        $TEXMACS_PATH/progs/fonts

in order to understand how the fonts are mapped. See also

        Help -> Source code -> TeXmacs fonts

Best wishes, Joris