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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/afm2tfm.1 b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/afm2tfm.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..32822173aa4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/afm2tfm.1 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.\" man page for afm2tfm +.TH AFM2TFM 1 "9 August 1990" +.SH NAME +afm2tfm \- convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics +.SH DESCRIPTION +PostScript fonts are (or should be) accompanied by font metric files +such as +.B 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 conversion. For more +information, print out the dvips manual. +.SH FILES +.I psfonts.map +in the config directory used by dvips (update this). +.br +.I ../afm/Makefile +in the dvips sources (look at this for examples). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +dvips(1), tex(1), vptovf(1) +.SH 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. +.SH AUTHORS +Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@cs.stanford.edu> and Donald E. Knuth |