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IIRC, MF 2.0 at least boosted 128 to 256. At the time, the only character sets which went beyond 256 characters were CJK character sets which had uniform charac
by dhosek 6y ago
IIRC, MF 2.0 at least boosted 128 to 256. At the time, the only character sets which went beyond 256 characters were CJK character sets which had uniform character dimensions for all characters so the limitation was not a problem.
- drfuchs 6y agoYou're absolutely correct; I should have said "more than 256". It's difficult to modify TeX to handle larger character sets, but Metafont could, using that weird hack that all characters of a given "mod 256" had to have the same dimensions (no doubt simply due to the limitations of TFM format).