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@@ -129,14 +129,14 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "AUTOINST 1"
-.TH AUTOINST 1 "2017-03-21" "fontools" "Marc Penninga"
+.TH AUTOINST 1 "2017-06-16" "fontools" "Marc Penninga"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
.nh
.SH "NAME"
autoinst \- wrapper around the LCDF TypeTools,
-for installing OpenType fonts in LaTeX.
+for installing and using OpenType fonts in (La)TeX.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
\&\fBautoinst\fR [\fIoptions\fR] \fBfontfile(s)\fR
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ Given a family of font files (in \fIotf\fR or \fIttf\fR format),
\&\fBautoinst\fR will create several LaTeX font families:
.RS 2
.IP "\-" 3
-Four text families (with lining and oldstyle digits, in both tabular
-and proportional variants), each with the following shapes:
+Four text families (with lining and oldstyle digits, each in both tabular
+and proportional variants), all with the following shapes:
.RS 3
.RS 2
.IP "\fIn\fR" 8
@@ -182,7 +182,8 @@ since old-style digits make no sense with all-caps text.)
Italic and slanted small caps
.IP "\fInw\fR" 8
.IX Item "nw"
-\&\*(L"Upright swash\*(R"; usually normal text with \*(L"oldstyle\*(R" ligatures such as ct, sp and st.
+\&\*(L"Upright swash\*(R"; usually roman text with a few \*(L"oldstyle\*(R" ligatures
+like ct, sp and st.
.IP "\fItlit\fR, \fItlsl\fR" 8
.IX Item "tlit, tlsl"
Italic and slanted titling text
@@ -193,10 +194,10 @@ Italic and slanted titling text
.RS 3
.RE
.IP "\-" 3
-For each text family: a family of TS1\-encoded symbol fonts,
+For each T1\-encoded text family: a family of TS1\-encoded symbol fonts,
in roman, italic and slanted shapes.
.IP "\-" 3
-Four families with superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators,
+Families with superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators,
in roman, italic and slanted shapes.
.IP "\-" 3
An ornament family, in roman, italic and slanted shapes.
@@ -206,8 +207,8 @@ An ornament family, in roman, italic and slanted shapes.
.PP
Of course, if the fonts don't contain italics, oldstyle digits, small caps
etc., the corresponding shapes and families are not created.
-Furthermore, the creation of most families and shapes can be controlled by
-command-line options (see \*(L"COMMAND-LINE \s-1OPTIONS\*(R"\s0 below).
+In addition, the creation of most families and shapes can be controlled
+by options (see \*(L"COMMAND-LINE \s-1OPTIONS\*(R"\s0 below).
.PP
These families use the \fIFontPro\fR project's naming scheme:
\&\fI<FontFamily>\-<Suffix>\fR, where \fI<Suffix>\fR is:
@@ -225,8 +226,8 @@ proportional oldstyle figures
tabular oldstyle figures
.IP "\fISup\fR" 8
.IX Item "Sup"
-superior characters (many fonts have only an incomplete set of superior
-characters: digits, some punctuation and the letters \fIabdeilmnorst\fR;
+superior characters (note that most fonts have only an incomplete set of
+superior characters: digits, some punctuation and the letters \fIabdeilmnorst\fR;
normal forms are used for other characters)
.IP "\fIInf\fR" 8
.IX Item "Inf"
@@ -245,22 +246,22 @@ denominators
The generated fonts are named \fI<FontName>\-<suffix>\-<shape>\-<enc>\fR,
where \fI<suffix>\fR is the same as above (but in lowercase),
\&\fI<shape>\fR is either empty, \*(L"sc\*(R", \*(L"swash\*(R" or \*(L"titling\*(R",
-and \fI<enc>\fR is the encoding.
-A typical name in this scheme is \*(L"LinLibertineO\-osf\-sc\-ly1\*(R".
+and \fI<enc>\fR is the encoding (also in lowercase).
+A typical name in this scheme would be \*(L"FiraSans\-Light\-osf\-sc\-ly1\*(R".
.SS "On the choice of text encoding"
.IX Subsection "On the choice of text encoding"
By default, \fBautoinst\fR generates text fonts with \s-1OT1, T1\s0 and \s-1LY1\s0
encodings, and the generated style files use \s-1LY1\s0 as the default text encoding.
-\&\s-1LY1\s0 has been chosen over T1 because it has some empty slots to accomodate
+\&\s-1LY1\s0 has been chosen over T1 because it has some empty slots to accommodate
the additional ligatures provided by many OpenType fonts.
-Different encodings can be chosen using the \fI\-encoding\fR command-line option
+Other encodings can be chosen using the \fI\-encoding\fR option
(see \*(L"COMMAND-LINE \s-1OPTIONS\*(R"\s0 below).
.SS "Using the fonts in your LaTeX documents"
.IX Subsection "Using the fonts in your LaTeX documents"
\&\fBautoinst\fR generates a style file for using the font in LaTeX documents,
named \fI<FontFamily>.sty\fR. This style file also takes care of loading the
\&\fIfontenc\fR and \fItextcomp\fR packages.
-To use the font, simply put \f(CW\*(C`\eusepackage{\f(CI<FontFamily>\f(CW}\*(C'\fR
+To use the font, put the command \f(CW\*(C`\eusepackage{\f(CI<FontFamily>\f(CW}\*(C'\fR
in the preamble of your document.
.PP
This style file defines a number of options:
@@ -273,30 +274,32 @@ The defaults are \*(L"oldstyle\*(R" and \*(L"proportional\*(R" (if available).
.el .IP "\f(CWscale=\f(CI<number>\f(CW\fR" 4
.IX Item "scale=<number>"
Scale the font by a factor of \fI<number>\fR.
-For example: to increase the size of the font by 5%, use
+E.g., to increase the size of the font by 5%, use
\&\f(CW\*(C`\eusepackage[scale=1.05]{\f(CI<FontFamily>\f(CW}\*(C'\fR.
May also be spelled \f(CW\*(C`scaled\*(C'\fR.
.Sp
This option is only available when you have the \fIxkeyval\fR package installed.
-.ie n .IP """ultrablack"", ""ultrabold"", ""heavy"", ""extrablack"", ""black"", ""extrabold"", ""demibold"", ""semibold"", ""bold""" 4
-.el .IP "\f(CWultrablack\fR, \f(CWultrabold\fR, \f(CWheavy\fR, \f(CWextrablack\fR, \f(CWblack\fR, \f(CWextrabold\fR, \f(CWdemibold\fR, \f(CWsemibold\fR, \f(CWbold\fR" 4
-.IX Item "ultrablack, ultrabold, heavy, extrablack, black, extrabold, demibold, semibold, bold"
-Choose the weight that LaTeX will use for the \*(L"bold\*(R" weight.
.ie n .IP """light"", ""medium"", ""regular""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CWlight\fR, \f(CWmedium\fR, \f(CWregular\fR" 4
.IX Item "light, medium, regular"
-Choose the weight that LaTeX will use for the \*(L"regular\*(R" weight.
+Select the weight that LaTeX will use as the \*(L"regular\*(R" weight;
+the default is \f(CW\*(C`regular\*(C'\fR.
+.ie n .IP """ultrablack"", ""ultrabold"", ""heavy"", ""extrablack"", ""black"", ""extrabold"", ""demibold"", ""semibold"", ""bold""" 4
+.el .IP "\f(CWultrablack\fR, \f(CWultrabold\fR, \f(CWheavy\fR, \f(CWextrablack\fR, \f(CWblack\fR, \f(CWextrabold\fR, \f(CWdemibold\fR, \f(CWsemibold\fR, \f(CWbold\fR" 4
+.IX Item "ultrablack, ultrabold, heavy, extrablack, black, extrabold, demibold, semibold, bold"
+Select the weight that LaTeX will use as the \*(L"bold\*(R" weight;
+the default is \f(CW\*(C`bold\*(C'\fR.
.PP
-These last two groups of options will only work if
+The previous two groups of options will only work if
you have the \fImweights\fR package installed.
.PP
The style file will also try to load the \fIfontaxes\fR package
-(available on \s-1CTAN\s0),
-which gives easy access to various font shapes and styles.
+(available on \s-1CTAN\s0), which gives easy access to various font shapes and styles.
Using the machinery set up by \fIfontaxes\fR, the generated style file
defines a number of commands (which take the text to be typeset as argument)
and declarations (which don't take arguments, but affect all text up to
-the end of the current group) of its own:
+the end of the current group) to access titling, superior and inferior
+characters:
.PP
.Vb 1
\& DECLARATION COMMAND SHORT FORM OF COMMAND
@@ -308,7 +311,7 @@ the end of the current group) of its own:
.PP
In addition, the \f(CW\*(C`\eswshape\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`\etextsw\*(C'\fR commands are redefined to place
swash on the secondary shape axis (\fIfontaxes\fR places it on the primary
-shape axis); this makes these commands behave properly when nested, so that
+shape axis) to make them behave properly when nested, so that
\&\f(CW\*(C`\eswshape\eupshape\*(C'\fR will give upright swash.
.PP
There are no commands for accessing the numerator and denominator
@@ -330,23 +333,22 @@ encoding vector, e.g. if your fonts use non-standard glyph names for ornaments.
.PP
These commands are only generated for existing shapes and number styles;
no commands are generated for shapes and styles that don't exist,
-or whose generation has been turned off using command-line options.
-Also: these commands are built on top of \fIfontaxes\fR;
-if that package cannot be found, you're limited to using the
-lower-level commands from standard \s-1NFSS \s0(\f(CW\*(C`\efontfamily\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`\efontseries\*(C'\fR,
-\&\f(CW\*(C`\efontshape\*(C'\fR etc.).
+or whose generation was turned off by the user.
+Also these commands are built on top of \fIfontaxes\fR, so if that package
+cannot be found, you're limited to using the lower-level commands from
+standard \s-1NFSS \s0(\f(CW\*(C`\efontfamily\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`\efontseries\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`\efontshape\*(C'\fR etc.).
.SS "Using multiple font families in one document"
.IX Subsection "Using multiple font families in one document"
Style files generated by versions of \fBautoinst\fR older dan 2013\-07\-25
redefined \f(CW\*(C`\emddefault\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`\ebfdefault\*(C'\fR, whereas newer style files
-use the \fImweights\fR package instead.
+build on the facilities of the \fImweights\fR package instead.
If you use multiple \fBautoinst\fR\-generated font familes in the same document,
-it is best if all style files are generated by the same version of
+it might be best if all style files are generated by the same version of
\&\fBautoinst\fR; re-generate the older families if necessary.
.SS "\s-1NFSS\s0 codes"
.IX Subsection "NFSS codes"
-\&\s-1NFSS\s0 identifies fonts by a combination of family, series (weight plus width),
-shape and size.
+\&\s-1NFSS\s0 identifies fonts by a combination of family, series
+(the concatenation of weight and width), shape and size.
\&\fBautoinst\fR parses the output of \f(CW\*(C`otfinfo \-\-info\*(C'\fR to determine
these parameters. When this fails
(e.g., because the font family contains uncommon widths or weights),
@@ -361,15 +363,14 @@ this strategy is only used as a last resort.)
If such a proliferation of font families is unwanted,
either run \fBautoinst\fR on a smaller set of fonts or
add the missing widths, weights and shapes to the tables \f(CW%FD_WIDTH\fR,
-\&\f(CW%FD_WEIGHT\fR and \f(CW%FD_SHAPE\fR, at the top of the source code.
+\&\f(CW%FD_WEIGHT\fR and \f(CW%FD_SHAPE\fR, at the beginning of the source code.
Please also send a bug report (see \s-1AUTHOR\s0 below).
.PP
\&\fBautoinst\fR maps widths, weights and shapes to \s-1NFSS\s0 codes using
-the following tables. These are based as much as possible
-on the standard \fIFontname\fR scheme and Philipp Lehman's
-\&\fIFont Installation Guide\fR,
-but some changes were made to avoid name clashes in font families
-with many widths and weights.
+the following tables. These are based on the standard \fIFontname\fR scheme
+and Philipp Lehman's \fIFont Installation Guide\fR, but some changes were made
+to avoid name clashes in font families with many different widths and weights,
+such as Helvetica Neue.
.PP
.Vb 1
\& WEIGHT WIDTH
@@ -400,8 +401,8 @@ with many widths and weights.
\& Incline(d) sl [3]
.Ve
.PP
-\fINotes:\fR
-.IX Subsection "Notes:"
+\fINotes\fR
+.IX Subsection "Notes"
.IP "[1]" 4
.IX Item "[1]"
When \fIboth\fR weight and width are empty, the \*(L"series\*(R" attribute becomes \*(L"m\*(R".
@@ -411,11 +412,11 @@ Adobe Silentium Pro contains two \*(L"Roman\*(R" shapes (\*(L"RomanI\*(R" and \*
the first of these is mapped to \*(L"n\*(R", the second one to \*(L"it\*(R".
.IP "[3]" 4
.IX Item "[3]"
-New in release 2014\-01\-21; before that, slanted fonts were mapped to \*(L"it\*(R".
+Since release 2014\-01\-21; before that, slanted shapes were mapped to \*(L"it\*(R".
.SS "A note for MiKTeX users"
.IX Subsection "A note for MiKTeX users"
Automatically installing the fonts into a suitable \s-1TEXMF\s0 tree
-(as \fBautoinst\fR does by default) requires a TeX-installation that uses
+(as \fBautoinst\fR tries to do by default) requires a TeX-installation that uses
the \fIkpathsea\fR library; with TeX distributions that implement their
own directory searching (such as MiKTeX), \fBautoinst\fR will complain that
it cannot find the \fIkpsewhich\fR program and install all generated files
@@ -427,35 +428,35 @@ to their correct destinations by hand, or use the \fI\-target\fR option
Also, some OpenType fonts may lead to \fIpl\fR and \fIvpl\fR files that
are too big for MiKTeX's \fIpltotf\fR and \fIvptovf\fR;
the versions that come with W32TeX (\fIhttp://www.w32tex.org\fR)
-and TeXLive (\fIhttp://tug.org/texlive\fR) don't have this problem.
+and TeXLive (\fIhttp://tug.org/texlive\fR) don't seem to have this problem.
.SH "COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS"
.IX Header "COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS"
\&\fBautoinst\fR tries hard to do The Right Thing (\s-1TM\s0) by default,
so in many cases you won't need these options;
-but most aspects of its operation can be changed if you want to.
+but most aspects of its operation can be fine-tuned if you want to.
.PP
You may use either one or two dashes before options,
and option names may be shortened to a unique prefix
(e.g., \fB\-encoding\fR may be abbreviated to \fB\-enc\fR or even \fB\-en\fR,
-but \fB\-e\fR is ambiguous (\fB\-encoding\fR, \fB\-extra\fR).
+but \fB\-e\fR is ambiguous (it may mean either \fB\-encoding\fR or \fB\-extra\fR)).
.IP "\fB\-dryrun\fR" 4
.IX Item "-dryrun"
-Don't actually generate any fonts and files, only create a logfile
-showing which fonts would be generated.
-By default, this information is written to \fIautoinst.log\fR;
-use the \fB\-logfile\fR option to specify a different filename.
+Don't actually do anything, only create the logfile \fIautoinst.log\fR
+showing which fonts would have been generated.
.IP "\fB\-encoding\fR=\fIencoding[,encoding]\fR" 4
.IX Item "-encoding=encoding[,encoding]"
-Generate the specified encoding(s) for the text fonts. The default is \*(L"\s-1OT1,T1,LY1\*(R".\s0
-For each encoding, a file \fI<encoding>.enc\fR (\fIlowercase\fR)
+Generate the specified encoding(s) for the text fonts. The default is
+\&\*(L"\s-1OT1,T1,LY1\*(R".\s0
+For each encoding, a file \fI<encoding>.enc\fR (in all \fIlowercase\fR!)
should be somewhere where \fIotftotfm\fR can find it. Suitable encoding files
for \s-1OT1, T1/TS1\s0 and \s-1LY1\s0 come with \fBautoinst\fR. (These files are
called \fIfontools_ot1.enc\fR etc. to avoid name clashes with other packages;
the \*(L"fontools_\*(R" prefix may be omitted.)
.Sp
Multiple text encodings can be specified as a comma-separated list:
-\&\f(CW\*(C`\-encoding=OT1,T1\*(C'\fR. The encodings are passed to \fIfontenc\fR in the order
-specified, so the last one will be the default text encoding.
+\&\f(CW\*(C`\-encoding=OT1,T1\*(C'\fR (without spaces!). The generated style file passes these encodings
+to \fIfontenc\fR in the specified order, so the last one will become
+the default text encoding for your documents.
.IP "\fB\-ts1\fR / \fB\-nots1\fR" 4
.IX Item "-ts1 / -nots1"
Control the creation of TS1\-encoded fonts. The default is \fB\-ts1\fR
@@ -502,10 +503,20 @@ Control the creation of titling fonts. The default is \fB\-titling\fR.
.IX Item "-superiors / -nosuperiors"
Control the creation of fonts with superior characters.
The default is \fB\-superiors\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-inferiors\fR / \fB\-noinferiors\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-inferiors / -noinferiors"
-Control the creation of fonts with inferior digits.
-The default is \fB\-noinferiors\fR.
+.IP "\fB\-inferiors\fR=[ \fBsinf\fR | \fBsubs\fR | \fBdnom\fR ]" 4
+.IX Item "-inferiors=[ sinf | subs | dnom ]"
+The OpenType standard defines several kinds of digits that might be used
+as inferiors or subscripts: \*(L"Scientific Inferiors\*(R"
+(OpenType feature \*(L"sinf\*(R"), \*(L"Subscripts\*(R" (\*(L"subs\*(R") and \*(L"Denominators\*(R" (\*(L"dnom\*(R").
+This option allows the user to determine which of these styles \fBautoinst\fR
+should use for the inferior characters. The default is not to create fonts
+with inferior characters.
+.Sp
+Note that many fonts contain only one (or even none) of these types
+of inferior characters. If you specify a style of inferiors that isn't
+actually present in the font, \fBautoinst\fR silently falls back to its default
+of not creating fonts with inferiors; it doesn't try to substitute one of
+the other features.
.IP "\fB\-fractions\fR / \fB\-nofractions\fR" 4
.IX Item "-fractions / -nofractions"
Control the creation of fonts with numerators and denominators.
@@ -513,15 +524,6 @@ The default is \fB\-nofractions\fR.
.IP "\fB\-ornaments\fR / \fB\-noornaments\fR" 4
.IX Item "-ornaments / -noornaments"
Control the creation of ornament fonts. The default is \fB\-ornaments\fR.
-.IP "\fB\-verbose\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-verbose"
-Verbose mode; print detailed information about which fonts \fBautoinst\fR
-is generating. By default, this information is written to \fIautoinst.log\fR;
-a different filename can be specified using the \fB\-logfile\fR option.
-Repeat this option for even more detailed information.
-.IP "\fB\-logfile\fR=\fI\s-1LOGFILE\s0\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-logfile=LOGFILE"
-Write the logging information to \fI\s-1LOGFILE\s0\fR instead of \fIautoinst.log\fR.
.IP "\fB\-defaultlining\fR / \fB\-defaultoldstyle\fR" 4
.IX Item "-defaultlining / -defaultoldstyle"
.PD 0
@@ -531,44 +533,43 @@ Write the logging information to \fI\s-1LOGFILE\s0\fR instead of \fIautoinst.log
Tell \fBautoinst\fR which figure style is the current font family's default
(i.e., which figures you get when you don't specify any OpenType features).
.Sp
-\&\fIDon't use these options unless you are certain you need them!
+\&\fIDon't use these options unless you are certain you need them!\fR
They are only needed for fonts that don't provide OpenType features
for their default figure style; and even in that case,
-the default values (\f(BI\-defaultlining\fI and \f(BI\-defaulttabular\fI)
-are usually correct.\fR
-.IP "\fB\-figurekern\fR / \fB\-nofigurekern\fR" 4
-.IX Item "-figurekern / -nofigurekern"
+\&\fBautoinst\fR's default values (\fB\-defaultlining\fR and \fB\-defaulttabular\fR)
+are usually correct.
+.IP "\fB\-nofigurekern\fR" 4
+.IX Item "-nofigurekern"
Some fonts provide kerning pairs for tabular figures.
This is very probably not what you want
(e.g., numbers in tables won't line up exactly).
-The option \fB\-nofigurekern\fR adds extra \fI \-\-ligkern\fR options
-to the commands for \fIotftotfm\fR to suppress such kerns
-(but of course only for the families with tabular figures).
-Since this leads to very long commands (one hundred such options in total!)
-and the problem only occurs in very few fonts,
-the default is \fB\-figurekern\fR.
+This option adds extra \fI \-\-ligkern\fR options
+to the commands for \fIotftotfm\fR to suppress such kerns.
+Note that this option leads to very long commands (it adds
+one hundred \fI \-\-ligkern\fR options), which may cause problems on some systems.
.IP "\fB\-extra\fR=\fItext\fR" 4
.IX Item "-extra=text"
-Add \fItext\fR to the command line to \fIotftotfm\fR. To prevent \fItext\fR from
-accidentily being interpreted as options to \fBautoinst\fR, it should be
-properly quoted.
+Append \fItext\fR as extra options to the command lines for \fIotftotfm\fR.
+To prevent \fItext\fR from accidentily being interpreted as options to \fBautoinst\fR,
+it should be properly quoted.
.IP "\fB\-manual\fR" 4
.IX Item "-manual"
-Manual mode. By default, \fBautoinst\fR executes all \fIotftotfm\fR
+Manual mode. By default, \fBautoinst\fR immediately executes all \fIotftotfm\fR
commands it generates; with the \fB\-manual\fR option, these commands are
instead written to a file \fIautoinst.bat\fR.
-Also, the generated \fIotftotfm\fR commands specify the \fI \-\-pl\fR option
+Furthermore it adds the \fI \-\-pl\fR option
(which tells \fIotftotfm\fR to generate human readable/editable \fIpl\fR
and \fIvpl\fR files instead of the default \fItfm\fR and \fIvf\fR files)
-and omit the \fI \-\-automatic\fR option (which causes \fIotftotfm\fR to
+and omits the \fI \-\-automatic\fR option (which causes \fIotftotfm\fR to
leave all generated files in the current directory, rather than install
-them into your \s-1TEXMF\s0 tree).
+them into your \s-1TEXMF\s0 tree). Manual mode is meant to enable tweaking
+the generated commands and post-processing the generated files.
.Sp
-When using this option, you should run \fIpltotf\fR and \fIvptovf\fR after
-executing all commands,
-to convert the \fIpl\fR and \fIvf\fR files to \fItfm\fR and \fIvf\fR format.
+When using this option, run \fIpltotf\fR and \fIvptovf\fR after executing
+the commands (to convert the \fIpl\fR and \fIvf\fR files to \fItfm\fR and \fIvf\fR format)
+and move all generated files to their proper destinations.
.PP
-The following options are only meaningful in automatic mode,
+All following options are only meaningful in automatic mode,
and hence ignored in manual mode:
.IP "\fB\-target\fR=\fI\s-1DIRECTORY\s0\fR" 4
.IX Item "-target=DIRECTORY"
@@ -599,18 +600,18 @@ The default is \fB\-updmap\fR.
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Eddie Kohler's \fBTypeTools\fR (\fIhttp://www.lcdf.org/type\fR).
.PP
-\&\fBPerl\fR can be downloaded from \fIhttp://www.perl.org\fR; it is
-pre-installed on many Linux distributions.
+\&\fBPerl\fR can be obtained from \fIhttp://www.perl.org\fR;
+it is a standard part of many Linux distributions.
For Windows, try ActivePerl (\fIhttp://www.activestate.com\fR)
or Strawberry Perl (\fIhttp://strawberryperl.com\fR).
.PP
-The \fBFontPro\fR project (\fIhttps://github.com/sebschub/FontPro\fR)
-offers very complete LaTeX support for Adobe's Minion Pro and Myriad Pro
-(including math), and is currently working on Cronos Pro.
-.PP
\&\fBXeTeX\fR (\fIhttp://www.tug.org/xetex\fR) and \fBLuaTeX\fR (\fIhttp://www.luatex.org\fR)
-are TeX engines that can use fonts in many formats
-(including both flavours of OpenType) without TeX-specific support files.
+are Unicode-aware TeX engines that can use OpenType fonts directly,
+without the need for any (La)TeX\-specific support files.
+.PP
+The \fBFontPro\fR project (\fIhttps://github.com/sebschub/FontPro\fR)
+offers very complete LaTeX support (including math) for Adobe's Minion Pro,
+Myriad Pro and Cronos Pro font families.
.PP
John Owens' \fBotfinst\fR (available from \s-1CTAN\s0) is another wrapper
around \fIotftotfm\fR.
@@ -619,9 +620,10 @@ around \fIotftotfm\fR.
Marc Penninga <marcpenninga@gmail.com>
.PP
When sending a bug report, please give as much relevant information as
-possible; this includes at least (but may not be limited to) the output
-from running \fBautoinst\fR with the \fI\-verbose\fR option.
-Please include all (if any) error messages as well.
+possible; this includes at least (but may not be limited to)
+the log file \fIautoinst.log\fR.
+If you see any error messages (either from \fBautoinst\fR itself, from Perl or
+from the \s-1OS\s0), please include these \fIverbatim\fR as well; don't paraphrase them.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C) 2005\-2017 Marc Penninga.
@@ -641,27 +643,13 @@ but \s-1WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY\s0; without even the implied warranty of
\&\s-1GNU\s0 General Public License for more details.
.SH "RECENT CHANGES"
.IX Header "RECENT CHANGES"
-(See the source code for the rest of the story.)
+(See the source for the full story, all the way back to 2005.)
+.IP "\fI2017\-06\-16\fR" 12
+.IX Item "2017-06-16"
+Changed the \fI\-inferiors\fR option from a binary yes-or-no choice to allow
+the user to choose one of the \*(L"sinf\*(R", \*(L"subs\*(R" and \*(L"dnom\*(R" features.
+\&\fBautoinst\fR now always creates a log file.
.IP "\fI2017\-03\-21\fR" 12
.IX Item "2017-03-21"
-Updated the \fIfontools_ot1.enc\fR encoding file to include the Lslash and lslash glyphs (thanks to Bob Tennent).
-.IP "\fI2015\-11\-22\fR" 12
-.IX Item "2015-11-22"
-Bugfix: Latex doesn't like command names with dashes in it.
-.IP "\fI2015\-05\-13\fR" 12
-.IX Item "2015-05-13"
-Fixed an error message that mixed up width and weight.
-.IP "\fI2014\-04\-04\fR" 12
-.IX Item "2014-04-04"
-Fixed a bug in the font info parsing code.
-.IP "\fI2014\-01\-21\fR" 12
-.IX Item "2014-01-21"
-\&\*(L"Oblique\*(R" or \*(L"slanted\*(R" fonts are now mapped to \s-1NFSS\s0 code \*(L"sl\*(R" instead
-of \*(L"it\*(R"; added \*(L"ssub\*(R" rules to the \fIfd\fR files to substitute slanted fonts
-for italic ones if the latter are missing. Fixed a few bugs.
-.IP "\fI2014\-01\-03\fR" 12
-.IX Item "2014-01-03"
-Added the \fI\-dryrun\fR and \fI\-logfile\fR options; changed which info is logged.
-Added the \fI\-lining\fR, \fI\-oldstyle\fR, \fI\-tabular\fR and \fI\-proportional\fR
-options; the old options with those names have been renamed to
-\&\fI\-defaultlining\fR, \fI\-defaultoldstyle\fR etc.
+Updated the \fIfontools_ot1.enc\fR encoding file to include the \*(L"Lslash\*(R"
+and \*(L"lslash\*(R" glyphs (thanks to Bob Tennent).