the virtual font craze

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From: Wolfgang Ratzka
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:21

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I'm  not  so   sure wether Christoph   Kukulies' longing for   `a good
collection of  virtual fonts' is not  based on a misunderstanding.  As
much as I understand  (please correct me), virtual  fonts are mainly a
means to

- utilize internal fonts of an output device (e. g. PostScript)

- rearrange the encoding of a font and do fancy things with accented
  characters.

Most VFs I have seen up to now are of the first kind and hence kind of
device dependent.  So just displaying the trophies of a archie hunt
for "\.vf$" may not be very useful.

But anyway, an overview over the different applications of VFs would
be interesting.
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From: Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de>
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Subject: the virtual font craze
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