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diff --git a/fonts/utilities/vplutils/spacevpl.man b/fonts/utilities/vplutils/spacevpl.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1cba9ec9ca --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/utilities/vplutils/spacevpl.man @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +.TH SPACEVPL 1 "VPLUtils Release @RELEASE@" +.SH NAME +spacevpl \- alter character dimensions and shifts in TeX's PL and VPL fonts +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B spacevpl +[ +.B \-quiet +] [ +.B \-range +.I range +] [ +.B \-wd +.I expr +] [ +.B \-ht +.I expr +] [ +.B \-dp +.I expr +] [ +.B \-ic +.I expr +] [ +.B \-hs +.I expr +] [ +.B \-vs +.I expr +] +.I font +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Spacevpl +alters the dimensions of characters in a property list (PL) or virtual +property list (VPL) file. +.PP +The options +.B \-wd, \-ht, \-dp, \-ic, \-hs +and +.B \-vs +are used to specify how the character width, height, depth, italic correction, +horizontal shift, and vertical shift are altered. The +.I expr +argument to these options is an arithmetic expression, which may include +numeric constants (given in points) and any of +.I wd, ht, dp, ic, hs +and +.I vs +to specify the original values of the character dimensions, or +.I ds +to specify the design size of the font. These operands are combined with the +operators +.I \-, *, /, +. +Sub-expressions may be enclosed in parentheses. +.PP +The +.B \-range +option specifies the range of characters which are modified. The range is a +comma separated list of numbers or subranges of the form +.I low\-high. +If +.I low +and/or +.I high +are omitted, the subrange is unbounded at the appropriate end(s). +.PP +Normally +.I spacevpl +informs you about what it is doing; the +.B \-quiet +option prevents this behaviour. +.SH EXAMPLES +To create adjust a normal italic font so that it is more appropriate for maths +typesetting, add the italic correction onto the character width, and remove +the italic correction. Extra left and right sidebearings is applied too: +.sp +.ce +spacevpl -wd 'ic+wd+.15*ds' -ic 0 -hs '0.02*ds' in.pl >out.vpl +.sp +.SH AUTHOR +Angus Duggan +.SH "SEE ALSO" +@MAN@, vftovp(1), vptovf(1), tftopl(1), afm2tfm(1) +.SH BUGS +.I Spacevpl +is slow. |