Re: Italic open-o in omega

Yannis Haralambous wrote:

> > The technic I used is derived on the method to use japanese fonts with 
> > Omega.
> >
> > I'll document what I've done soon.
> > In fact, in the japanese w32tex distribution there's a lot available to 
> > do that.
> >    
> if you mean converting TTF to PK, that's a very bad solution: 
No.
w32tex has the tools and scripts necessary to break them into a set of 
type 1 fonts.
I'm certain the tools exists also under linux, but I don't know the 
right distribution to use.

It breaks the font in a single .pfb for each unicode block (256 
characters), which is at the base the technic used by the CJK extension 
to TeX/LaTeX, and then it's possible to generate either postscript with 
odvips or pdf with dvipdfmx.

BTW I wanted to answer to the question earlier on the list about how to 
generate pdf from omega content that dvipdfmx seems to be the right 
solution for that.

Also the version of ttf2tfm this distribution provides (or any recent 
ttf2tfm ??) can generate the corresponding .ovp automatically, which is 
a big gain in time.

Right now the result does not sound like the best or most elegant 
solution, but it does the job.
The format conversion with automatic tools and the splitting would 
ideally be avoided.

With type 42 fonts, some things are possible for the ps.
And with dvipdfmx, there seems to be some possibility to map the font 
back to the original .ttf, it's definitively possible to map to a CID 
version of the font, but I don't understand it fully yet.
That the point I really want to investigate because the splitting when 
creating the pdf file is really unelegant, and maybe can be avoided 
quite easily, maybe if you only want pdf, you don't really need to 
convert the font at all.