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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..06dd0d2de82 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-metrics.html @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label metrics</title> +</head><body> +<h3>TeX font metric files for PostScript fonts</h3> +<p/>Reputable font vendors such as Adobe supply metric files for each +font, in AFM (Adobe Font Metric) form; these can be converted +to TFM (TeX Font Metric) form. Most modern distributions have +prebuilt metrics which will be more than enough for many people; but you may +need to do the conversion yourself if you have special needs or +acquire a new font. One important question is the <em>encoding</em> of +(Latin character) fonts; while we all more or less agree about the +position of about 96 characters in fonts (the basic ASCII set), the +rest of the (typically) 256 vary. The most obvious problems are with +floating accents and special characters such as the ‘pounds sterling’ +sign. There are three ways of dealing with this: either you change the +TeX macros which reference the characters (not much fun, and +error-prone); or you change the encoding of the font (easier than you +might think); or you use <a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">virtual fonts</a> to +<em>pretend</em> to TeX that the encoding is the same as it is used to. +LaTeX2e has facilities for dealing with fonts in different +encodings; read the <a href="FAQ-books.html"><em>LaTeX Companion</em></a> for +more details. In practice, if you do much non-English (but Latin +script) typesetting, you are strongly recommended to use the +<i>fontenc</i> package with option ‘<code>T1</code>’ to select +<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">‘Cork’</a> encoding. +A useful alternative is Y&Y’s “private” LY1 encoding, +which is designed to sit well with “Adobe standard” encoded fonts. +Basic support of LY1 is available on CTAN: note that the +“relation with Adobe’s encoding” means that there are no +virtual fonts in the LY1 world. +<p/>Alan Jeffrey’s <i>fontinst</i> package is an AFM to +TFM converter written in TeX; it is used to generate the +files used by LaTeX2e’s PSNFSS package to support use of +PostScript fonts. It is a sophisticated package, not for the faint-hearted, +but is powerful enough to cope with most needs. Much of its power +relies on the use of <a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">virtual fonts</a>. +<p/>For slightly simpler problems, Rokicki’s <i>afm2tfm</i>, +distributed with <i>dvips</i>, is fast and +efficient; note that the metrics and styles that come with +<i>dvips</i> are <em>not</em> currently LaTeX2e compatible. +<p/>For the Macintosh (classic), there is a program called +<i>EdMetrics</i> which does the job (and more). +<i>EdMetrics</i> comes with the (commercial) +<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">Textures</a> distribution, but is itself free +software, and is available on CTAN. + + + + +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>dvips</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvips.zip">dviware/dvips</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvips.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvips/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>EdMetrics</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx">systems/mac/textures/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx</a> +<dt><tt><i>fontinst</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.zip">fonts/utilities/fontinst</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>LY1 support</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1.zip">macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=metrics">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=metrics</a> +</body> |