afm2tfm(1) [minix man page]

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)

VPTOVF(1)						      General Commands Manual							 VPTOVF(1)

NAME

       vptovf - convert virtual property lists to virtual font metrics

SYNOPSIS

       vptovf [-verbose] vpl_name[.vpl] [vfm_name[.vf] [tfm_name[.tfm]]]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
       Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The vptovf program translates a (human-oriented) property list file to a pair of (program-oriented) files in the VF (virtual font) and  TFM
       (TeX  font  metric)  formats.  Thus,  a	virtual font file can be edited and its exact contents can be displayed mnemonically.  New virtual
       fonts, which map characters as seen by TeX into an arbitrary sequence of low-level typesetting operations, can also be created in this way.

       All three filenames, vpl_name, vf_name, and tfm_name, are extended with the appropriate suffix, if they lack one.

OPTIONS

       Without the -verbose option, vptovf operates silently.  With it, a banner and progress report are printed on stdout.

SEE ALSO

       pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vftovp(1).

AUTHORS

       Donald E. Knuth wrote the program, based in part on an idea of David Fuchs, starting with the code for pltotf(1).  Karl	Berry  adapted	it
       for compilation with web2c.

Web2C 2012							 16 December 1994							 VPTOVF(1)