[Much of this has already been answered by Robin Fairbairns] At 09:22 97-04-18, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > One can convert PS font metric to TeX font metric, but TeX > > can have more glyphs in a font, which allows for more kerning information, > > for example. >this is, excuse me, a meaningless sentence. TeX can see no more glyphs >in a font than it has... This is really for the experts to reply, but most implementations of PS fonts do not use several of the 256 possible slots, but this would not be efficient for TeX fonts, which would can use all those slots. In addition, you can only do kerning for glyph pairs in the same font of 256 glyphs. So for building a good TeX font, you would have to build a virtual font based on several PS fonts, adding new kerning information. But, as Frank Mittelbach pointed out, there is nothing in LaTeX _requiring_ you to do so. > > >it depends how i set it up! > > > > So the problem is that it is a lot of work setting it up. > > > >only once As Robin Fairbairns pointed out, there is a lot of work involved in adding full METAFONTness, but you can of course also ignore adding that missing information. In fact there seems to be two wholly different discussion topics going on here: The first, which Sebastian Rahtz thinks of, can one take a PS font, somehow flip it into LaTeX, producing typeset output. This is no problem. The second question, which I discussed, is how supplying the information one would normally expect from TeX's full capacity. This takes quite some effort to add, Robin Fairbairns said. Right? Hans Aberg