On 01/08/2012 17:31, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
result with pure MF. Virtual fonts have to remedy the deficiencies of encoding. The Latin alphabet for all languages (including Vietnamese) contains 500+ characters but the non-Unicode encodings allow 256.
NFSS/VF (and to some degree XeTeX) wasn't just about encoding, though. It was to also extend TeX beyond these strange "MetaFont" things that *nobody* was using to make it cope with these PS Fonts / TTF fonts that *everybody* was using.
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