Bug#178712: tetex-bin: mktexpk handles ttf fonts with gsftopk, which breaks on CJK

[Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) <danai.sae-han@skynet.be>]

frank> Indeed, I get an error here:
frank> [snip]
frank> 
frank> There doesn't seem to be a file bsmilp03 in Debian.  Consequently, I
frank> don't get to the point where the truetype font is/was converted to pk
frank> for dvips.  What am I doing wrong?

Oops, I forgot to tell you this.  cjk-latex does indeed have some
misconfigurations in the .fd files.  Strange, because Anthony Fok is
the maintainer of both the TFM package and cjk-latex.

freetype1-tools will install a file called /etc/ttf2pk/ttfonts.map.
Make sure that it contains the following lines:

  % AR PL Mingti2L Big5
  bsmi@UBig5@     bsmi00lp.ttf
  bsmis@UBig5@    bsmi00lp.ttf    Slant=0.167
  bsmir@UBig5@    bsmi00lp.ttf    Rotate=Yes
  bsmirs@UBig5@   bsmi00lp.ttf    Rotate=Yes      Slant=0.167

It should, but you never know... <_<;


Now you have to edit the .fd files: go to
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/CJK/Bg5/ and edit c00bsmi.fd.
Change "bsmilp" with "bsmi".

It will look like this:

  % Arphic PL TrueType font AR PL Mingti2L Big5 / ShanHeiSun-Light (MingTi)

  \DeclareFontFamily{C00}{bsmi}{\hyphenchar \font\m@ne}

  \DeclareFontShape{C00}{bsmi}{m}{n}{<-> CJK * bsmi}{}
  \DeclareFontShape{C00}{bsmi}{bx}{n}{<-> CJKb * bsmi}{\CJKbold}

This will point all the "bsmi" references to bsmi??.tfm, not
bsmilp??.tfm.

The changes should be reflected immediately without any updating of
the font map files.


I tried contacting Anthony about this, but he seems to be MIA. :<
That's one of the reasons I have created new packages.  I'm still
trying to refine it before looking for a sponsor though, so it could
take a while before it reaches the official Debian repositories.


frank> > However, if you modify pdftex.cfg to include arphic.map, it will use
frank> > the TrueType font directly and embed (parts of) them in the PDF file,
frank> > instead of relying on TFM, PFB or other types.
frank> > cjk-latex installs the map file in /etc/texmf/dvips/arphic.map.
frank> 
frank> The tfm files are needed for PDF, too - they contain the information for
frank> TeX how much space the glyphs take, and are therefore needed for line
frank> breaking. 

OIC.  Interesting to know.  I should take a closer look at pdflatex to
see the effects of missing TFM files.


Regards



Danai SAE-HAN
韓達耐

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