| Directory lout/font - font metrics files |
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| This directory contains Adobe Systems font metrics (formerly .AFM) |
| files for all the fonts mentioned in file lout/include/fontdefs. These |
| files are the source of Lout's information about the height and width |
| of all characters. The files are exactly as distributed publicly by |
| Adobe Systems except that erroneous ligature information has been |
| removed from the four Courier font files. |
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| In addition, for every Adobe Systems font file, (call it FF) there is |
| a companion file FF+ containing supplementary character definitions and |
| composite character definitions sufficient to support Latin2 without any |
| need to obtain Latin2 fonts. These files follow a format established |
| by Version 3.21 of Lout, and were supplied by Jaroslav Serdula. |
| |
| Lout is informed of the existence of these files by means of a database |
| of @FontDef symbols. Two such are supplied with Lout, in directory |
| $(LOUTLIB)/data: fontdefs.ld and latin2.ld. |
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| All file names were previously reduced to a maximum of 8 characters, |
| for portability to the DOS operating system. Now some of the FF+ |
| files have nine characters again. Let me know if this is a problem. |
| |
| Jeffrey H. Kingston |
| 10 May 2000 |
