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Re: [cjk] Argh I see, dvips seems to be producing rubbish!


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [cjk] Argh I see, dvips seems to be producing rubbish!
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 17:12:15 +0200 (CEST)

>>  Usually, glyph X is, say, the Japanese variant, while X+1 is the
>>  Taiwanese one, etc., etc.
> 
> Argh, I see.  cmap (3,10) have about 400 pairs of unicode points
> maps to the same glyph.  The re-encoding process is likely dropping
> one of them.  It would make sense to duplicate or share a link...

For such an analysis, ttx is your friend.  You can, say, dump the
cmaps of two different TTFs from the TTC and compare the indices.

> I am in the middle of changing stuff in both fontforge and the
> subfont script at the moment. ttf2tfm has a easier task: it just
> needs to point to the right glyph, so sharing a glyph between two
> code points is less an issue, compared to the case with a font
> editor.

Thanks for working on this!


    Werner



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