On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:55:02PM +0800, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > Norbert Preining wrote: > > >What is your ultimate target??? > > Thank you for asking this important question. > > I have installed fonts like the frutiger, berling, bera, urw-garamond, > etc., for which there is support (available from CTAN) for making them > LaTeX-recognizable. I will also be later installing fonts from the Font > Site 500 CD for which also there is help for making them LaTeX-recognizable. > > I have made up a little aide memoire to help me do this. It is attached as > the file InstallingURWGaramondFontsForLaTeX.txt which covers the specific > case of URW-Garamond. I want to automate steps 9 to 13 in this file to take > care of all the fonts that I install. > > It is easy to do these steps manually but each time I upgrade my OS from > Kubuntu Dapper to Edgy to now, Feisty, I have to do it by hand. I have > therefore written a Perl script to try to do this automatically, and I need > to see if the decision for choosing Map or MixedMap is easily automated or > not worth the effort, and must therefore rely on some other hand-edited > file. I have attached the unfinished Perl script (which is in its very > early stages). > > Perhaps there is a Debian tool to do this already. Otherwise, I am happy to > plod on and pass you my Perl script (for what it is worth) as my little > contribution to the marvellous work that you are doing. tex-fontconfig may be what you are looking for. The current version at sourceforge isn't up to date, but you can either check out the one from the cvs or I can provide a debian package. tex-fontconfig is able to create debian source packages from a list of type1 or ttf files. The source package includes everything to make the font available for TeX/LaTeX Uwe -- MMK GmbH, Fleyer Str. 196, 58097 Hagen Uwe.Steinmann@mmk-hagen.de Tel: 02331 840446 Fax: 02331 843920
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