shared font directory

Werner LEMBERG Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Mon, 04 Oct 1999 21:31:11 GMT


> Distributions these days seem to actually be converging, more or less,
> to what we specified in the TDS, which is use a
>
>   <suppliername>/<familyname>/<fontname>.pf[ab]
>
> substructure under each font type
>
> (currently afm/ hbf/ ofm/ ovf/ ovp/ pfm/ pk/ source/ tfm/ ttf/
             type1/ vf/)

Please note that for HBF fonts it is not hbf/ but rather somewhere
below misc/ ($MISCFONTS in web2c) -- there aren't enough HBF fonts
(about 50) for having another font variable.


    Werner