Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:993 comp.fonts:327 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!scott!mcglk From: mcglk@scott.stat.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts Subject: PostScript Times-Roman character substitutions (thorn and yogh) Summary: Need to replace a few characters. . . . Keywords: PostScript, Times-Roman, substitution, font, thorn, yogh Message-ID: <985@entropy.ms.washington.edu> Date: 23 Sep 88 23:45:30 GMT Sender: news@entropy.ms.washington.edu Reply-To: mcglk@scott.biostat.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Biostatistics Department, U of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Lines: 26 Being one of the few people that actually uses native PostScript around here gets me in trouble on occasion. This is one of those times. I've been asked if I would find a way to replace four characters--the yen sign (0xA5), the florins sign (0xA6), the section sign (0xA7), and the "splat" sign (0xA8)--with the upper- and lowercase thorn, and the upper- and lowercase yogh, respectively. (These are generally used in Old English texts, and look vaguely like "P"s, incidentally.) My problem is that I'm quite used to drawing figures, but haven't a clue as to go about working on fonts. I assume lineto and curveto operators would be on the slow side, but I don't know how else to go about it. Plus I haven't the faintest idea how to tell PostScript to use my routine instead of the yen-sign routine when it hits a 0xA5 code. Could someone out there get me started? Of course, if there's a thorn and yogh set out there, that would be delightful. But if not, I need some serious help. . . . Thanks. . . . --Ken McGlothlen mcglk@scott.biostat.washington.edu mcglk@max.acs.washington.edu mcglk@max.bitnet