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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-virtualfonts.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-virtualfonts.html index bc36b5a85f3..ab5b4f37575 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-virtualfonts.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-virtualfonts.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <h3>Virtual fonts</h3> <p/>Virtual fonts provide a means of collecting bits and pieces together to make the glyphs of a font: the bits and pieces may be other glyphs, -rules and other “basic” typesetting commands, and the positioning +rules and other “basic” typesetting commands, and the positioning information that specifies how everything comes together. <p/>Things that match the concept of virtual fonts for TeX were first implemented by David Fuchs in the very early days. However, for practical @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ define in a virtual font look like characters to TeX (they appear with their sizes in a TFM file), but the DVI processor may expand them to something quite different. <p/>From the virtual font file, the DVI processor learns -details of what is in the virtual font, so as to know “what to draw, -where”. The virtual font may contain commands: +details of what is in the virtual font, so as to know “what to draw, +where”. The virtual font may contain commands: <ul> <li> just to remap the glyphs of a single font, <li> to make a composite font with glyphs drawn from several @@ -32,18 +32,18 @@ where”. The virtual font may contain commands: In practice, the most common use of virtual fonts is to remap Adobe Type 1 fonts (see <a href="FAQ-metrics.html">font metrics</a>), -though there has also been useful useful work building ‘fake’ maths +though there has also been useful useful work building ‘fake’ maths fonts (by bundling glyphs from several fonts into a single virtual font). Virtual Computer Modern fonts, making a -<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">Cork encoded</a> font from Knuth’s originals by using -remapping and fragments of DVI for single-glyph ‘accented -characters’, were the first “Type 1 format” Cork-encoded Computer +<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">Cork encoded</a> font from Knuth’s originals by using +remapping and fragments of DVI for single-glyph ‘accented +characters’, were the first “Type 1 format” Cork-encoded Computer Modern fonts available. <p/>Virtual fonts are normally created in a single ASCII VPL (Virtual Property List) file, which includes both sets of information. The <i>vptovf</i> program is then used to the create the binary TFM and VF files. -<p/>A “how-to” document, explaining how to generate a VPL, +<p/>A “how-to” document, explaining how to generate a VPL, describes the endless hours of fun that may be had, doing the job by hand. Despite the pleasures to be had of the manual method, the commonest way (nowadays) of generating VPL files is to use the @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ fonts (it uses TeX to parse a description of the virtual font, and <dl> <dt><tt><i>fontinst</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.zip">fonts/utilities/fontinst</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/">browse the directory</a>) <dt><tt><i>Knuth on virtual fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/knuth/virtual-fonts">info/knuth/virtual-fonts</a> -<dt><tt><i>Virtual fonts “how to”</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/virtualfontshowto/virtualfontshowto.txt">info/virtualfontshowto/virtualfontshowto.txt</a> +<dt><tt><i>Virtual fonts “how to”</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/virtualfontshowto/virtualfontshowto.txt">info/virtualfontshowto/virtualfontshowto.txt</a> <dt><tt><i>qdtexvpl</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/qdtexvpl.zip">fonts/utilities/qdtexvpl</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/qdtexvpl/">browse the directory</a>) </dl> <p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=virtualfonts">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=virtualfonts</a> |