On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 14:08 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > The other instances of \DeclareFontShape don't point to a font? Like > > \DeclareFontShape{OMS}{pplcm}{l}{n}{<->ssub * pplcm/m/n}{} > > Is this just a declaration to substitute pplcm/l/n with pplcm/m/n?
Yes, this is a (silent) substitution of one font with another one. Note that this is still at the level of LaTeX's NFSS, not at the level of (virtual) TeX fonts. cheerio ralf PS: Looking into virtual fonts is much easier than what I wrote in my last mail. 'vftovp zpplcmb | less' is enough, since vftovp uses kpsewhich and adds .vf and an equally named tfm file all by itself. Some tools are just to intelligent ...