Re: TeX and FreeType: an impossible match?

[crusius_at_stanford . edu]

ooops! fixed a bunch of it. but some stuff remains wrong (for example,
for fonts that only have 1.0 and 3.1 encodings, linke my truetype
garamonds, for example).

In reply to address@hidden
>
>hi all. i am trying to make the encoding stuff work for good on my dvi
>viewer. it seems, however, that there are some big problems.
>
>first, for text fonts: no matter what charmap i use, some tex
>characters like '{' and '}' will get the wrong index from
>'FT_Get_Char_Index'.
>
>it gets much worse with math fonts. if i select any ancoding and use
>'FT_Get_Char_Index', then *all* glyphs will be wrong!!! since there is
>no reliable way to distinguish between a math and a text font from a
>dvi viewer, i really don't know what to do --- if i fix the text
>fonts, the math fonts will probably remain broken. if i fix the math
>fonts, the text fonts will break. argh!
>
>i hope you guys can come up with some suggestions for me, since i
>think not being able to reliably using freetype for a dvi viewer is
>something that is not good...
>
>cheers,
>
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