> > - the glyph names in the symbol fonts (e.g., mt2syt.pfb) are
> > completely off. If the glyphs followed
http://partners.adobe.com/public/develo ... glyph.html, a pdf can be searched
> > by AR as well as Google. (STIX will most probably follow this
> > naming scheme)
>
I don't know what any of the stuff about glyph names means. I presume this has something to do with the
> names assigned to various characters, as opposed to the default ASCII names that Fontographer uses.
Zedler: Correct.
> That is, for example, in the symbol font, the \forall character occurs at position '070, which is where the digit 8 goes in ASCII, so the encoding for mt2syt makes 8 the name of the \forall character, whereas some people would be much happier
> if it had some other name.
Zedler: Correct, according to AGL the forall glyph should have the name /universal or /uni2200.
> This is something I've never concerned myself about at all, because I just want to use the fonts with TeX, not with any other programs of any sort, including searching programs. If this is important, I can go to the trouble of making new fonts (I wouldn't be surprised if every single font, not just the symbol font, would need to be redone).
Zedler: Yes, it applies to all pfb.
> I suppose that some one with a bit of understanding about how PostScript names should work could make a simple program that would take a PostScript font and a <name file> and remake the PostScript font so that the names in <name file> become the names in the PostScript font. Indeed, it seems that it would be ludicrous to do the whole process by hand, instead of just getting some one to write such a file.
Zedler: Fontforge can do that, just as a perl script that operates on the output of t1disasm. But it takes someone to write the encoding vectors.
> In any case, however, I'm not willing to try to read through all the gobblydegook about how the names are supposed to be made. Some one would simply have to tell me what names go with which symbols (i.e., give a <name file> for each font).
>
> I guess we should make a decision about this soon, before the fonts are actually released. (Of course, no one seems to have protested before about the older fonts.)
Zedler: Well, STIX is around the corner, and they will most probably use correct glyph names. BTW, the Y&Y mathtime fonts had mostly correct glyph names (don't know about mtpro1).
the paper format of guide2.pdf is incorrect
Perhaps he is referring to the fact that I've placed pages near the upper left, rather than centered. (This was originally done to facilitate the production of printed versions, where each page was supposed to fit on half of an 8.5" x 11'' sheet.) I could, of course, easily
> change things. Is this important?
Zedler: It'd be best if the pdf paper size were correct, this'll ease printing/imposing. For guide2.pdf something around 140mm x 215mm looks ok.