Re: Re PostGhost Fonts (and the Euro)

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Patricia M. Godfrey"  on Mon, 29
Aug 2005 17:46:04 -0400

The only way that I know, to address the small superior number problem, is to
run an XPL routine against a finished file before printing, which changes the
SZ SiZe on the footnote number (if that's what we're talking about here). I
have such a routine.

> And thaks for thorn, edh, and ligature AE. One can discourse learnedly
> of matters Anglo-Saxon with accuracy and ease.

Thaks to Ghostscript and those who donated the fonts (URW, Bitstream)! Truth
is, there are quite a number of extended Latin characters in these fonts that I
didn't implement, because 1) I was trying conscientiously to mimic the Speedo
arrangement for CP850, and 2) due to the way XyWrite PostScript PRNs are
arranged, you are limited to 256 chars max (the PS fonts actually have more).
I wanted to maintain the "look and feel" of Speedos, so that old Xy documents
using Speedo character-number asignments, would print properly. The few
departures from that principle, e.g. Euro on char 176, represent concessions to
popular demand. Since you, Patricia, are very popular, get hold of a font
viewer util, inspect what's actually present in these GS fonts, and make your
demands -- I can assign additional characters to char numbers that are not
present in PS fonts, e.g. the line drawing charadcters . Not too many, though!
I'm tired of tinkering with the damn thing...

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Robert Holmgren
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