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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..b6cca982351 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/afm2tfm.1 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +.TH AFM2TFM 1 "1 February 2016" +.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. +.PP +For all the details, see the dvips manual (http://tug.org/dvips). +.SH FILES +.I psfonts.map +in the config directory used by dvips. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +dvips(1), tex(1), vptovf(1), fontinst(1), afm2pl(1), otftotfm(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 and Donald E. Knuth. +.PP +Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence +to tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k). |