[tex-live] bad TFM files in TeXLive!
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Sat Jul 2 21:06:26 CEST 2005
> [...] That's the reason why the tfm files on UNIX or Windows systems
> are usually shorter.
>
> I will not change this feature since it does not harm other users.
Maybe you can add a sentence to the README file to inform the users
about this feature.
> I consider correcting the font encoding scheme (I wonder why
> METAFONT generates happily tfm files which are BAD by the standards
> of tftopl).
Don't blame metafont! While tftopl.web explicitly says that
`parentheses should not appear in this name' (this is, in the font
encoding scheme), Metafont simply uses the data from the `headerbyte'
command, without checking, and this command does appear neither in
plain.mf nor in cmbase.mf.
It is a problem of `modes.mf' which doesn't contain a proper character
check in function BCPL_string(). Karl, can you fix this?
Werner
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