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diff --git a/fonts/utilities/ps4mf/ps4mf.txt b/fonts/utilities/ps4mf/ps4mf.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..da04f4ab7b --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/utilities/ps4mf/ps4mf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,405 @@ + +-------------------+ + | -*- PS4MF -*- | + +-------------------+ + Unix-Version: 1.1 June 1996 + + (c) Markus Neteler 1994 - 1996 + Hannover, Germany + + Conversion of Postscript-Type1-fonts to TeX + + CONTENTS + + I. Description + II. Quality of letters + III. What to do + IV. Some information about <font>.afm + V. Any problems ? + VI. Where to get fonts + VII. New versions of ps4mfxx.zip + VIII. Copyright + + + I. DESCRIPTION + + In order to use Postscript-Type1-fonts for TeX without any special + encoding scheme (like dc,ec,nfss) you now can convert your favourite + Postscript-font. + This font has to be encoded in the "AdobeStandardEncoding-scheme". + After conversion into the standard-cm-encoding of TeX you can use + the fonts in LaTeX 2.09. + If you use LaTeX 2.e you need dc-encoding: this is also possible. + + This package is based on the ps2mf-package of the authors: + Marcel Dings (original idea of the ps2mf-package) and Erik-Jan Vens (new + ps2mf). + + + II. QUALITY OF LETTERS + + Fonts made by programs like Adobe(tm), Corel's Wfnboss(tm) and Fontographer + (Apple(tm)) seem to be of a better quality than fonts generated by + ghostscript's getafm. If you get free or shareware-fonts you should take + care of that. + + + III. WHAT TO DO + (Please read ../ps4mf/install.txt before you start!) + + (0) Copy your postscript-font into directory ../ps4mf. + ../ stands for your home or whereever you put the package. + + (1) Because of two different AdobeEncodingSchemes look at <font>.afm for + the actual used encoding scheme: + + conv_ado.sh Adobe-made-fonts converting routine + conv_east.sh east-european converting routine for special + postscript-fonts + conv_dc.sh dc encoding converting routine for Adobefonts + + (a) Fonts made by programs like Adobe(tm), Corel's Wfnboss(tm) with + AdobeStandardEncoding and Fontographer (EncodingScheme AppleStandard) + must be converted with conv_ado.sh -- Ado like Adobe: + + Typical encoding in <font>.afm: + character "grave" has got the number C 128 or C 96: + "C 128 ; W ... grave ... " + "C 96 ; W ... grave ... " + + + To avoid trivial problems with syntax-error "C 175": + While looking for the name of the font-generating program + at <font>.afm, check this line: + C 175 ; WX 278 ; N ; B 11 33 44 566 + If no charactername is specified (like here), delete this line. + Otherwise you maybe won't get a metafont-file! + Please read PROBLEMS (3) further down for this, too. + + + (b) For east-europe-TeXusers I have added conv_east.sh: + It generates a special encoded metafont-file (8 bit font) - + please look at encoding scheme in ps2mf/east.cfg. + + (c) If you want to have dc-encoded fonts take conv_dc.sh + + If you don't find a notice of the font-generating program or don't have + the character "grave" to look for the number just try both - you will + just see the upper and lower letters and no accents and foreign letters + etc. in your TeX document if you are wrong. + Just take the better result! + + IMPORTANT: + + IF FILES <font>.afm OR <font>.pfb ARE MISSING: + + - If <font>.afm is missing and you only have <font>.pfm try + pfm2afm <font> + to convert the <font>.pfm -file to <font>.afm . + Look on ftp-servers for this program. + - You can also take ghostscript's getafm together with t1tools/t1utils + written by Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de. + + + (2) If necessary edit conv_ado.sh for your TeX-directory-structure. + + (3) Now run simply conv_ado.sh with fontname as parameter. + + Example: + conv_ado garamond + + (4) Use the new font in your TeX-documents: + + + (A) For the use of LaTeX 2.09: + + (You should move newfont.tex and redefint.tex from /ps4mf/texinput + into the TeX-directory /usr/local/tex/texinput.) + + (a) By using TeX-command + e.g. \newfont{\garamond}{garamond scaled 1000}. + + or + (b) If you want to change fonts generally from computer-modern + fontfamily to your favourite postscriptfonts, just declare the + new fontnames in the file "newfont.tex". Then every magnification + (\large, \Huge etc.) will use your postscript-font. + + + Look at + ../ps4mf/texinput/sample1.tex (LaTeX: use of newfont.tex) or + ../ps4mf/texinput/sample2.tex (LaTeX: use of redefint.tex) or + ../ps4mf/texinput/dingbats.tex (LaTeX: use of font dingbats) or + ../ps4mf/texinput/testfont.tex (TeX: character-table) for example. + + (B) For the use of LaTeX 2.e (and the teTeX-package, for other packages + please send a mail to me with suggestions): + + It seems to be somehow complicated but is rather simple... :) + + (a) Copy the base-file ps2mfbas.mf to: + + /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/metafont/misc/ + + (b) Copy the (meta-)font-files *.mf (with dc-encoding) to: + + /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/source/myfonts/dc/ + + You have to create both directories ../myfonts/dc/. + + (c) The *.tfm-files are created by metafont, you can ignore them. + + + (d) The original postscript-files have to be copied, too: + + - the *.afm -files to: + + /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/afm/myfonts/ + + Here you have to create the directory ../myfonts/. + + - the *.pfb -files also: + + /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts/type1/myfonts/ + + Here you have to create the directory ../myfonts/. + + + (e) Now you can declare a font-family (similar to "newfont.tex" which + was for LaTeX 2.09): + + - Change to the directory + + /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss + + - Create a file called "T1xxxxx.fd" where xxxxx has to be + substituted with the familyname which is defined in the first + line of the file. Here you define all shapes etc. as you like it. + Look further down for an example: + + Example for family "baskerville": + + T1bask.fd + + Content of file: + + \DeclareFontFamily{T1}{bask}{} + \DeclareFontShape{T1}{bask}{m}{n}{ <-> baskvl }{} + % medium norm. + \DeclareFontShape{T1}{bask}{b}{n}{ <-> baskvlb }{} + % bold norm. + \DeclareFontShape{T1}{bask}{bx}{n}{ <-> baskvlb }{} + % bold ext. norm. + \DeclareFontShape{T1}{bask}{m}{it}{ <-> baskvli }{} + % med. ital. + + Another example ist at ps4mf/font-definition/. + + (f) For the tetex-package you have to execute "texhash" at + unix-prompt to tell the system that there are more files + present now. + + (g) Now the big bang is coming ... + + Take you TeX-Document and add the following to the header + + %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% + %[some of your definitions] + + \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} + \renewcommand{\familydefault}{bask} + + % Fuer deutschsprachige AnwenderInnen zusaetzlich: + \usepackage[iso]{umlaute} + \usepackage{german} + \selectlanguage{german} + + + ENJOY! + + + + IV. SOME INFORMATION ABOUT <font>.afm + + (1) The <font>.afm-file contains some lines like + C 168 ; WX 445 ; N dieresis ; B -9 16 455 480 ; + + The "C 168" is the character-number, + the "WX 445" I don't know at the moment, + the "N dieresis" is the name of the character, + the "B -9 16 455 480" is the character bounding box information. + + (2) If you just have the <font>.pfb-file you can try to create a new + <font>.afm-file with getafm.sh. Just type + getafm <font> (without extension .pfb). + + For getafm see above. + + + (3) To clean up afm-files or correct characters you can use "t1tidy.zip" + (ask archie or me) + + + V. ANY PROBLEMS ? + + (1) utopia.zip - metafont problems! + If you look into the .mf file after using conv_Gho you find many lines + sprinkled randomly about the file containing only a right parenthesis + " ) ". After deleting these lines Metafont runs without a problem + and you now have a Utopia font. + + (2) If you get an error from ps2mf and afm2tfm like : + + B expected ; ! syntax error + C 32 ; WX 278 ; N space ; + ^ + there is no hope to convert this font. Some part of the font-description + is missing (bug of the postscript-font generating program), you have to + use another font or to get it via anonymous ftp (see further down). + + The correct syntax at file <font>.afm looks like + C 32 ; WX 278 ; N space ; B 278 0 278 0 ; + The part following "B" is necessary for ps2mf and afm2tfm. + + (3) No <font>.mf file is generated: + ps2mf reports an syntax-error with C 175 or similar: + ! syntax error + C 175 ; WX 278 ; N ; + ^ + The character-name is missing, just delete this line in file <font>.afm + This is an error of Corel's Wfnboss (the font-generating program). + + (4) You don't see any "umlauts" or other accents although there is a line + + e.g.: C 168 ; WX 445 ; N dieresis ; B -9 16 455 480 ; + (or some other character) + + There is a definition at <font>.afm but there no information + in the binary file (<font>.pfb) - get another font, blame the + font-creator... + + (5) You get an error of afm2tfm like + + " Kern char not found + KPX Y a -68 " + + Just ignore this. + + (6) If you have MAC-files you can try to convert them to Adobe with + refont + + (7) Metafont-error like: + " ... [89][90][91] + >> -1 + ! Invalid code has been replaced by 0. + <to be read again> + ; + l.9067 105=:-1; + + I was looking for a number between 0 and 255, or for a + string of length 1. Didn't find it; will use 0 instead. " + + Please edit /usr/local/tex/mfinput/<font>.mf for that error: + Then there are lines like + + ligtable 102: + 105=:-1; + + The "-1" is unknown by metafont - delete all + ligtables <no> followed by + <no>=:-1 + + Then you can run metafont again. + + (8) It was reported that dvihplq/dvidot give checksum errors. But it is + possible to print out anyway. If you take the <font>.tfm file produced + by metafont the problem will disappear (then your font won't end + with character 127 but with 255 - the encoding of the first 128 + characters is still like computer modern: no differences!) + + + + VI. WHERE TO GET FONTS: + + + + + VI. WHERE TO GET FONTS: + ----------------------- + (a) To get a nice listings, character-pictures and ftp-connections of fonts + try WWW with mosaic/netscape/etc.: + + CTAN at WWW: + http://jasper.ora.com/ + + There is a fontpage which allows to look at fonts and download them + directly! + + + (b) You can get postscript-fonts via anonymous ftp at + + - ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (mirror of hobbes.nmsu.edu) + /pub/systems/os2/hobbes-mirror/multimed/fonts + + - ftp.uni-freiburg.de + /pc/os2/atmfonts + + - ftp obelix.icce.rug.nl + /pub/erikjan/fonts/type.one.fonts + /pub/erikjan/fonts/BitStream + + - garbo.uwasa.fi + /pc/fonts + - Attention: utopia.zip - metafont problems! + If you look into the .mf file after using conv_gho you find + several hundred lines sprinkled randomly about the file + containing only a right parenthesis. When you delete these + lines, Metafont runs without a problem and you now have a + Utopia font. + + + Both files <font>.afm and <font>.pfb are necessary. + + + Recommended (tested) fonts: + agate.zip + agateb.zip + agatei.zip + bodoni.zip + bodonib.zip + bodonii.zip (change "ItalicAngle" from 1 to 16 in bodonii.afm) + boecklin.zip + dingbats.zip + fr-n.zip (Frutiger) + fr-b.zip etc. (Frutiger bold) + garmnd.zip + garmndmi.zip (change "ItalicAngle" from 1 to 15 in garmndmi.afm) + goudyoi.zip (change "ItalicAngle" from 1 to 4 in goudyoi.afm) + hobo.zip + kaufmann.zip + lowereas.zip (use conv_ado2.bat to convert) + lowerwes.zip (use conv_ado2.bat to convert) + peigmed.zip + peignot.zip + postcr.zip (from package atmfonts.zip, use conv_ado2.bat to convert) + sntfra.zip (from package atmfonts.zip, use conv_ado2.bat to convert) + utopia.zip (for fixing a simple problem look at PROBLEMS (V.1)) + + * ATTENTION - Fonts made by Corel's Wfnboss (that's a lot!): * + * To avoid trivial problems please read PROBLEMS (V.3) above. * + + + VII. NEW VERSIONS OF ps4mf-unix.tar.gz: + ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de + /incoming/tex + + VIII. COPYRIGHT: Please read copying.gnu. + + + -------------------------------- + Please get hints and comments to + + Markus Neteler + email: neteler@geog.uni-hannover.de + + + |