From 13328a265ebe4ef58c26ab99e0c071edb0ca0195 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Berry Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:56:47 +0000 Subject: 3.16c+html git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@2723 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751 --- .../texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html') diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html index ce965f8bca5..cddb11091c1 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ acquire a new font. One important question is the encoding of (Latin character) fonts; while we all more or less agree about the position of about 96 characters in fonts (the basic ASCII set), the rest of the (typically) 256 vary. The most obvious problems are with -floating accents and special characters such as the 'pounds sterling' +floating accents and special characters such as the ‘pounds sterling’ sign. There are three ways of dealing with this: either you change the TeX macros which reference the characters (not much fun, and error-prone); or you change the encoding of the font (easier than you @@ -21,20 +21,20 @@ LaTeX2e has facilities for dealing with fonts in different encodings; read the LaTeX Companion for more details. In practice, if you do much non-English (but Latin script) typesetting, you are strongly recommended to use the -fontenc package with option 'T1' to select -'Cork' encoding. -A useful alternative is Y&Y's "private" LY1 encoding, -which is designed to sit well with "Adobe standard" encoded fonts. +fontenc package with option ‘T1’ to select +‘Cork’ encoding. +A useful alternative is Y&Y’s “private” LY1 encoding, +which is designed to sit well with “Adobe standard” encoded fonts. Basic support of LY1 is available on CTAN: note that the -"relation with Adobe's encoding" means that there are no +“relation with Adobe’s encoding” means that there are no virtual fonts in the LY1 world. -

Alan Jeffrey's fontinst package is an AFM to +

Alan Jeffrey’s fontinst package is an AFM to TFM converter written in TeX; it is used to generate the -files used by LaTeX2e's PSNFSS package to support use of +files used by LaTeX2e’s PSNFSS package to support use of PostScript fonts. It is a sophisticated package, not for the faint-hearted, but is powerful enough to cope with most needs. Much of its power relies on the use of virtual fonts. -

For slightly simpler problems, Rokicki's afm2tfm, +

For slightly simpler problems, Rokicki’s afm2tfm, distributed with dvips, is fast and efficient; note that the metrics and styles that come with dvips are not currently LaTeX2e compatible. -- cgit v1.2.3