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> The CM-super package contains type1 fonts converted from METAFONT
> fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font
> families). All european and cyrillic writings are covered. Each
> Type1 font program contains ALL glyphs from the following encodings:
> T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe StandardEncoding (582
> glyphs per non-SC font and 465 glyphs per SC font), and could be
> reencoded to any of these encodings using standard dvips or pdftex
> facilities (the corresponding support files are also included).
Am I right that the CM-super package tries to minimize the number of
used fonts? If this is the most important goal, I fully agree with
such big fonts. Otherwise I wonder whether the Omega approach isn't
probably better: to have `glyph containers' with at most 256
characters each -- fonts like omsela.pfb for Latin, omsecy.pfb for
Cyrillic, etc.
[A marginal note: It seems that noone has ever tried to provide LaTeX
support files for the excellent Omega fonts (i.e. virtual fonts, font
definition files, etc.).]
> * provide optimized but not hinted version (will be smaller)?
Apropos smaller: How do you realize composite glyphs? Do you use
Type 1 facilities to make the fonts smaller (via the AFM file)? I can
imagine that this can greatly reduce the size of the fonts.
> * add glyphs from T2D encoding
So T2D this has already been defined, hasn't it? I haven't seen any
announcement on this list...
> * include glyphs from cbgreek ec-like fonts
* Include glyphs from the vnr family to cover Vietnamese.
* Include all missing glyphs from the Unicode extended Latin sections.
BTW, I hope you have replaced the ugly `Euro' glyph from TS1 with
better looking variants from either the Marvosym or China2e fonts...
Another BTW: Do you use AGL compliant glyph names?
Werner
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