Re: \ell in postscript enhanced

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> All of these are usable by gnuplot, with the caveat that the character
> encodings for the Computer Modern fonts are idiosynchratic in the extreme.
> You should probably test the font using the demo script  ..../demo/charset.dem
> which can help you figure out which character codes correspond to which
> glyphs.  So for example:
> 	set terminal postscript enhanced  "texsya" \
> 	fontfile /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/txfonts/txbsya.pfb
> 	set output 'texsya.ps'
> 	load 'charset.dem'
>
> Having said all that, I have to point out that so far as I know \ell is not
> defined here; it must be a special from one of the add-on LaTeX packages.

See my other post. The \ell ist in the standard font cmmi10.pfb.

> I believe the font you want is (on my machine anyhow)
> 	/usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/yandy/mathtime/rmtmi.afm

This is only an Adobe Font Metric file which does not contain any glyph
information. It is part of the MathTime font by the company Y&Y (RIP).

> But you would have to convert this from an *.afm file to a *.pfa or *.pfb
> file in order for gnuplot to import it.

That is not possible. You have to have either a pfb or a pfa of a font
(or, or course ttf).

Harald

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