Re: GS, fonts, type1inst, dtm & Co.
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 09:02:41PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Marco Pistore writes:
> > > It would be really cool if you
> > > can find the TFM files somewhere and put them into
> > > /usr/share/fonts/type1/metrics. (The TFM files are a *must*
> > > for LaTeX.)
> >
> > I'll do this. However, please consider the possibility to
> > instruct dtm to extract tfm files directly from the font files).
I didn't know you can extract infos from fonts directly :(.
> > There is an utility (printafm) that extract afm font metrix from type1
> > fonts (it is in the ghostscript package), and
> > there is an utility (afm2tfm) that converts afm metrix files into
> > tfm metrix files (in tetex-bin). We could try to merge the two utilities
> > (or try to find one that already extracts tmf metrix files from type1
> > fonts...)
I will add the automatic afm generation to dtm. But at this time I
don't have the time to merge the two utilities. We'll need fontinst
anyway to generate the .fd files and the sty files used by
LaTeX. Ciao.
> That seems to be an alternative to the getafm+fontinst solution.
>
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