Christopher Adams skrev:
I'm presently using fontinst to create my own version of Palatino by
combining URWPalladioL with the SC and OsF files from Adobe (thankfully they
still sell these in Type1 format).
I noticed that for a large number of accented characters that are defined by
T1, in the output from pdflatex they are being drawn as composite glyphs,
rather than independent glyphs as they exist in the Palladio fonts.
Just to be clear here: By "composite" you mean that there are really
two glyphs being combined to make up one letter?
I first felt a bit confused when reading this, but that's probably
because I've been thinking about Unicode lately, where (the semantic
counterpart of) this kind of thing would be called "decomposed".
For glyphs such as *gbreve* this makes no difference in the final output.
For others such as *eogonek,* the ogonek is misplaced*
Yes, getting the position of the ogonek right is tricky.
(and anyway you can't
make a good *eogonek* by compositing; it really needs to be an independent
glyph.). Likewise the *dcaron* and *tcaron* are wrong, because again you
can't achieve good glyphs by compositing the base character with an
apostrophe.
Still, they're not quite as bad as some other glyphs being faked, I
suspect.
Why are these glyphs being created through composites rather than being
taken from the font? Is this a limitation of Adobe Standard Encoding? I've
tried studying the different encodings but I'm not sure how to apply them to
solve this problem.
Not of the StandardEncoding as such, since fontinst doesn't create
composite glyphs in the Type 1 (seac charstring operation) sense, but
quite likely a limitation of the TeXBase1Encoding (8r) in that it
doesn't encode all the glyphs you have in the font. This, in turn, is a
consequence of PostScript (1980's design that it is) only allowing
8-bit encodings; no single encoding can cover more than 256 glyphs.
You need to use a different base font encoding, either instead of or in
addition to, 8r. The quickest way of getting one that covers the glyphs
you're asking about would probably be to use the T1 encoding itself; a
variant on that trick is described in
http://tug.org/pipermail/fontinst/2009/001615.html
and forth, though in that case t1cj.etx was used to gain access to
smallcaps and oldstyle figure glyphs.
* As an aside, the ogoneks in PalladioL are really badly drawn. One aim of
my project is to redraw these glyphs in a separate font and bring them into
to my Palatino via fontinst.
Good choice. Combining the offerings of several base fonts is where
fontinst really shines.
Lars Hellström
