Re: Lout typesetting questions

Hi Lout enthusiasts,

I agree with William on

> I think that lout doesn't need to understand fonts. It just needs an AFM and a reference to one of the LCM files in the maps
> directory with the encoding.
> For other applications, I have made AFMs with ttf2pt1 ( I have a clone at https://github.com/william8000/ttf2pt1 ), which can make
> a postscript Type 1 font from ttf and otf using the FreeType library and then the ghostscript printafm script, which can generate an
> AFM from Type 1 fonts.
> I haven't tried it, but probably lout could use other font types with the proper configuration files without needing any C coding
> changes.

I even wrote a small convience script to (semi-)automate the font
conversion back at the time I was using Lout, see

https://github.com/smartmic/addfonts

I would also agree that Unicode support has more impact. On the other
hand, I admit, I do not use Lout any more. Maybe I should check it out
again to rediscover why I liked it so much. It's a real shame that it
hasn't found more use and popularity given its advantages.


Kind regards,
Martin