Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

[George Williams]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:16, David Turner wrote:
> - I don't understand completely the difference between atoms and
> non-property
>   strings. Aren't these the same things ? Why distinguish them then ?
Well 5005.BDF_Spec.pdf says that the thing that comes after the FONT
keyword should be a PostScript name-literal (which has no quotes), while
properties are either integers or quoted-strings.

I have no idea what the significance of this distinction is in the BDF
format, therefore I thought I had better preserve it. You may be right
that there is none.

If anyone can guarantee that it doesn't matter, I'll remove it and say
that non-property strings get no quotes, while property strings need
quotes.