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README for fontinst
* What is it?
Fontinst is a program that helps with installing fonts
for (La)TeX. Since it is written entirely in TeX macros,
it is completely portable.
More precisely, fontinst helps mainly with the number
crunching and shoveling parts of font installation. This
means in practice that it creates a number of files which
give the TeX metrics (and related information) for a font
family that (La)TeX needs to do any typesetting in these
fonts. Fontinst furthermore makes it easy to create fonts
containing glyphs from more than one base font, taking
advantage of e.g. "expert" font sets.
Fontinst cannot examine files to see if they contain any
useful information, nor automatically search for files
or work with binary file formats; those tasks must
normally be done manually or with the help of some other
tool, such as the pltotf and vptovf programs.
* Documentation
The doc directory contains pure documentation; in
particular the doc/manual directory should be of
interest, as it contains the fontinst manual. For all
questions about how one uses fontinst, see this manual.
Sadly, the manual has been neglected for some time, and
although it was recently revised, much remains to do.
In particular, many commands still lack description and
explanations (although at least the manual now lists
all the syntaxes). Some alternative sources of information
that you may find useful are:
* Philipp Lehman's "The Font Installation Guide"
Available on CTAN, at info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/
* intro98.tex - parts of the 1998 fontinst v1.8 manual
that were split off during the recent revision.
* The fontinst mailing list and its archives
(See below for relevant addresses.)
* The fontinst Literate Programming sources (see
source/fisource.dvi). If a command isn't documented
anywhere else, there is probably a discussion of it
in the sources. They're thoroughly indexed.
The examples directory contains some examples (with
comments) of using fontinst to install a font family.
* Installation
To use fontinst, you only need to make sure the inputs
directory and its subdirectories are on TeX's input path.
Usually you do this by moving it to a suitable location.
In a TDS texmf tree, the inputs directory is usually
made the ${TEXMF}/tex/fontinst directory.
You will probably also want to move the file fontdoc.sty
in the latex directory to some location where TeX will
find it. Many of the .mtx and .etx files in the inputs
hierarchy are simultaneously fontinst input files and
LaTeX documents; the fontdoc package is needed to typeset
them as the latter. In a TDS texmf tree, the normal place
for fontdoc.sty is in the tex/latex/misc directory.
Also recall that some TeX implementations maintain a
database over files that have been installed. If you've
placed fontinst in a suitable place but TeX complains it
cannot find the file fontinst.sty then the problem may
be that you need to update this database of files. That
is however nothing that is particular for fontinst.
* Latin and other scripts
The fontinst distribution includes the necessary encoding
definition (.etx) files for the latin script as used in
European languages, but there is nothing in fontinst as
a program that restricts it to these languages. In the T2
bundle (CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/t2) there are
corresponding fontinst files for the cyrillic scripts
(and in the future it might become part of the main
fontinst distribution).
* The test directory
This is mainly of interest for advanced fontinst users.
It collects some files that were written to test the new
features in various versions of fontinst.
* Mailing list
Questions and bug reports should be sent to the fontinst
mailing list
fontinst@tug.org
General information about the mailing list is at:
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/fontinst
7 August 2004,
Lars Hellstr\"om
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