linux man page for afm2tfm

AFM2TFM(1)						      General Commands Manual							AFM2TFM(1)

NAME

       afm2tfm - convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics

DESCRIPTION

       PostScript  fonts  are  (or should be) accompanied by font metric files such as Times-Roman.afm, which describes the characteristics of the
       font called Times-Roman.  To use such fonts with TeX, we need TFM files that contain similar information. This program  does  that  conver-
       sion.  For more information, print out the dvips manual.

FILES

       psfonts.map in the config directory used by dvips (update this).
       ../afm/Makefile in the dvips sources (look at this for examples).

SEE ALSO

       dvips(1), tex(1), vptovf(1)

BUGS

       An  option  to  add  letterspacing to the virtual font was rejected by Knuth because it would make the fi and fl ligatures break the normal
       rhythmic pattern.

AUTHORS

       Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@cs.stanford.edu> and Donald E. Knuth

								   9 August 1990							AFM2TFM(1)