Re: psnfss and lw35nfss

["Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

   Thierry Bouche writes:

    > if we spend the same amount of time & energy on any charachter as what
    > we did for dotlessj, I'm quite anxious for the day we go unicode!
    > 

   and its obscured the important questions (for me) which are
    a) do we want black boxen for missing characters in a font?
       or just TeX and dvips warnings
    b) are the kermings in 8r.mtx bad, as Thierry suggests

   sebastian

In own opinion a TFM file should not lie.  If there is no character
this should be what the TFM file says.

And TeX should announce the missing character *and* its context on
screen.  I know this goes against modifying TeX in any way, but surely
this is just useful informational stuff added on that does not affect
the TRIP test?  Naturally it would be a while before all TeX
implementations do this...