eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (06/23/91)
TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes: >My workmate who is the TeX maintainer at my office is revamping >our font system; he wants it to be compatible with the new 8-bit >layout for TeX3. I don't know anything about this layout -- any >pointers? I presume there's a committee handling it? There is no standard font layout, 7-bit or 8-bit or whatever. There is a de facto standard set by computer modern for the first 7 bits, and during the conference in Cork last year some people got together and devised an extension/modification for 8 bits. You can find this in Tugboat (where else? I mean, how can you use TeX and not read Tugboat?) vol 11 nr 4, page 514--516. Victor.
gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun22.220517.16911@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes: :TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes: : :>My workmate who is the TeX maintainer at my office is revamping :>our font system; he wants it to be compatible with the new 8-bit :>layout for TeX3. I don't know anything about this layout -- any :>pointers? I presume there's a committee handling it? : :There is no standard font layout, 7-bit or 8-bit or whatever. :There is a de facto standard set by computer modern for :the first 7 bits, and during the conference in Cork last year :some people got together and devised an extension/modification :for 8 bits. You can find this in Tugboat (where else? I mean, :how can you use TeX and not read Tugboat?) vol 11 nr 4, page 514--516. My mistake for not relaying his request accurately enough; he wanted both the layout of where the characters go, and the full technical information on the new format TFM files -- enough to implement them. The Tugboat article doesn't contain all the info he needs. We were looking for something more along the lines of a Web source for a TFM reader/writer. Thanks anyway for answering, Graham Toal pp Graham Asher.