Re: the virtual font craze

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From: Christoph Kukulies
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:22

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Wolfgang Ratzka writes:

>I'm  not  so   sure wether Christoph   Kukulies' longing for    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.
>

I agree with your suggestion to shed some light on the usefulness
of virtual fonts and what actually can be done with them.

--Chris

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