On Mon 9th Aug, 2010 at 21:00, John D Lamb seems to have written:
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:56 +0100, Dr. Clea F. Rees wrote:
I am working with an enormous font containing several latin and greek
alphabets. To install a particular alphabet, I'm using reglyphing. For
example:
\renameglyph{A}{some-other-A}
I'm totally fed up and frustrated. (This is not the fault of anybody so
please don't think I am suggesting for one second otherwise. I'm simply
explaining why I'm asking for advice.) I'd appreciate any advice anyone
can give me for dealing with an enormous font which contains almost (but
not quite) all the symbols and letters needed for a maths setup as well
as many text characters.
I’ve had similar issues with a reglyphed font. My solution was to
construct a table of about 1400 kern pairs, rm-kerns.mtx and then use
them when installing the font.
\installfont{frer8t}{text-rm2rm-8r,rm-kerns,newlatin}{t1}{T1}{fre}{m}{n}{<-16>}
rm-kerns.mtx contains lines like
\setkern{space}{W}{20}
\setkern{space}{V}{20}
\setkern{dollar}{five}{-20}
I also use a few \setleftrightkerning commands to handle ligatures.
Thanks. It is nice to know it is not just me missing something obvious,
at least!
Question: your setup looks as though it simply adds kerning pairs. Did
you do anything to remove existing kerns?
Also, is there any reason you included {space}? I thought TeX didn't
use a glyph for space in any case.
Best,
Clea
