afmtodit
AFMTODIT(1) General Commands Manual AFMTODIT(1)
NAME
afmtodit - create font files for use with groff -Tps
SYNOPSIS
afmtodit [-mnsvx] [-a n] [-d desc_file] [-e enc_file] [-i n] afm_file map_file
font
The whitespace between an command line option and its argument is
optional.
DESCRIPTION
afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff and grops. afmtodit is
written in perl; you must have perl version 5.004 or newer installed in
order to run afmtodit.
afm_file is the AFM (Adobe Font Metric) file for the font.
map_file is a file that says which groff character names map onto each
PostScript character name; this file should contain a sequence of lines
of the form
ps_char groff_char
where ps_char is the PostScript name of the character and groff_char is
the groff name of the character (as used in the groff font file). The
same ps_char can occur multiple times in the file; each groff_char must
occur at most once. Lines starting with # and blank lines are ignored.
If the file isn't found in the current directory, it is searched in the
`devps/generate' subdirectory of the default font directory.
If a PostScript character is not named as uniXXXX (XXXX are four
uppercase hexadecimal digits), and is not mentioned in map_file, and a
generic groff glyph name can't be deduced using the Adobe Glyph List
(AGL, built into afmtodit), then afmtodit puts the PostScript character
into the groff font file as an unnamed character which can only be
accessed by the \N escape sequence in troff. If option -e is not
specified, the encoding defined in the AFM file (i.e., entries with non-
negative character codes) is used. Please refer to section `Using
Symbols' in the groff info file which describes how groff glyph names are
constructed.
Characters not encoded in the AFM file (i.e., entries which have -1 as
the character code) are still available in groff; they get glyph index
values greater than 255 (or greater than the biggest character code used
in the AFM file in the unlikely case that it is greater than 255) in the
groff font file. Glyph indices of unencoded characters don't have a
specific order; it is best to access them with glyph names only.
The groff font file will be output to a file called font.
If there is a downloadable font file for the font, it may be listed in
the file /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devps/download; see grops(1).
If the -i option is used, afmtodit will automatically generate an italic
correction, a left italic correction and a subscript correction for each
character (the significance of these parameters is explained in
groff_font(5)); these parameters may be specified for individual
characters by adding to the afm_file lines of the form:
italicCorrection ps_char_n
leftItalicCorrection ps_char_n
subscriptCorrection ps_char_n
where ps_char is the PostScript name of the character, and n is the
desired value of the corresponding parameter in thousandths of an em.
These parameters are normally needed only for italic (or oblique) fonts.
OPTIONS
-an Use n as the slant parameter in the font file; this is used by
groff in the positioning of accents. By default afmtodit uses the
negative of the ItalicAngle specified in the afm file; with true
italic fonts it is sometimes desirable to use a slant that is less
than this. If you find that characters from an italic font have
accents placed too far to the right over them, then use the -a
option to give the font a smaller slant.
-ddesc_file
The device description file is desc_file rather than the default
DESC. If not found in the current directory, the `devps'
subdirectory of the default font directory is searched (this is
true for both the default device description file and a file given
with option -d).
-eenc_file
The PostScript font should be reencoded to use the encoding
described in enc_file. The format of enc_file is described in
grops(1). If not found in the current directory, the `devps'
subdirectory of the default font directory is searched.
-in Generate an italic correction for each character so that the
character's width plus the character's italic correction is equal
to n thousandths of an em plus the amount by which the right edge
of the character's bounding box is to the right of the character's
origin. If this would result in a negative italic correction, use
a zero italic correction instead.
Also generate a subscript correction equal to the product of the
tangent of the slant of the font and four fifths of the x-height
of the font. If this would result in a subscript correction
greater than the italic correction, use a subscript correction
equal to the italic correction instead.
Also generate a left italic correction for each character equal to
n thousandths of an em plus the amount by which the left edge of
the character's bounding box is to the left of the character's
origin. The left italic correction may be negative unless option
-m is given.
This option is normally needed only with italic (or oblique)
fonts. The font files distributed with groff were created using
an option of -i50 for italic fonts.
-m Prevent negative left italic correction values. Roman font files
distributed with groff were created with -i0 -m to improve spacing
with eqn(1).
-n Don't output a ligatures command for this font. Use this with
constant-width fonts.
-s The font is special. The effect of this option is to add the
special command to the font file.
-v Print version.
-x Don't use the built-in Adobe Glyph List.
FILES
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devps/DESC
Device description file.
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devps/F
Font description file for font F.
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devps/download
List of downloadable fonts.
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devps/text.enc
Encoding used for text fonts.
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devps/generate/textmap
Standard mapping.
SEE ALSO
groff(1), grops(1), groff_font(5), perl(1)
The groff info file, section `Using Symbols'.
Groff Version 1.19.2 13 February 2005 AFMTODIT(1)