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Caveats

Although handling of composite character is widely automated, problems may arise. Most importantly it is the responsibility of the user to take care that font file and AFM file provide consistent data. Alas, this is not always true for existing font and AFM files. If, for example, an AFM file is extended by composite character definitions and these composite character definitions reference symbols that are not defined in the CharsStrings dictionary, errors will result. If composite character information is added to an AFM file, the following rules have to be respected:


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2004-10-04