Alan Stone wrote:
Are fonts like men, or like women ? ;O)
fonts are simply complex ...
- no real consistency (esp in names)
- complicted by the fact that we want (in tex) some coherent system
- complicated even more by math
- and by incomplete fonts
- and ...
- and ...
to some extend luatex/mkiv is making it a bit more convenient but even
then ..
- fonts can have truckloads of features
- and related bugs
- and ...
Hans
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