On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:12:30PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > An approach is to do a groff release where the PS 3 fonts are there, > > but not used by default, with a notice that in time (say in one > > year) the default will change. Then in the next major release have > > the PS 2 fonts there, but as a fall back for those who find the > > change over too painful. Then in time (say 5 years) have the PS 2 > > fonts available from an archive for those who still can not or will > > not change. > > Again a misunderstanding, I think. We are basically just changing the > font metrics, nothing more. With `PS 2' and `PS 3' we mean the set of > built-in standard fonts which come with PS level 2 and level 3 > printers. By no means we change the actual PS code level! > > The changes are probably not visible to most users, albeit there are > subtle differences in metrics which might lead to different formatting > (funny, isn't it? Adobe apparently isn't interested in layout > stability). For reference I will retain the old metrics in a separate > archive. > > What is visible to some users is that more glyphs will be available.
Yes, I misunderstood. It sounds like my concerns are addressed. -- Mike Bianchi _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
