On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:09:41PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:

> Hello again,

Hi.

> 1. The bluesky type1 computer modern fonts from have the wrong family names 
> ('Computer Modern' and 'Euler' while lyx wants 'cmr10' etc.) but that's very 
> easily fixed.

OK.

> This is also easily fixed; I used pfaedit to import all the glyphs in cmr10 
> into every other font. Now all of them are selectable by fontconfig, and lyx 
> gets them.
> However pfaedit segfaults when merging type1 fonts. I have no idea why and 
> I've failed to fix it. So I've had to save them as truetype and merge that. I 
> hope there's been no loss of quality or information.

Well, they are only screen fonts, after all.

> If I'm right, it is caused by encoding info problems. The bakoma fonts, for 
> reference, are encoded as "ISO 10646-1 (Unicode, BMP)" (according to pfaedit) 
> and have the correct unicode numbers attached to the various glyphs. The 
> 
> Hope someone can help me, because I'm quit out of my depth here as far as font 
> editing is concerned... I'm going to keep trying, but may have already 

I wish I could help you here, I really want to see this font issue
cleaned up. But I evidently know even less than you about fonts :(

There is a chance Dekel can help, if not, is there some other forum you
could help from ?

regards,
john

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