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afmtodit - create font files for use with groff -Tps
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aaffmmttooddiitt [ --nnss ] [ --dd_d_e_s_c___f_i_l_e ] [ --ee_e_n_c___f_i_l_e ] [ --ii_n ] [
--aa_n ] _a_f_m___f_i_l_e _m_a_p___f_i_l_e _f_o_n_t
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aaffmmttooddiitt creates a font file for use with groff and ggrrooppss.
aaffmmttooddiitt is written in perl; you must have perl version 3
installed in order to run aaffmmttooddiitt. _a_f_m___f_i_l_e is the AFM
(Adobe Font Metric) file for the font. _m_a_p___f_i_l_e 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
_p_s___c_h_a_r _g_r_o_f_f___c_h_a_r
where _p_s___c_h_a_r is the PostScript name of the character and
_g_r_o_f_f___c_h_a_r is the groff name of the character (as used in
the groff font file.) The same _p_s___c_h_a_r can occur multiple
times in the file; each _g_r_o_f_f___c_h_a_r must occur at most
once. _f_o_n_t is the groff name of the font. If a
PostScript character is in the encoding to be used for the
font but is not mentioned in _m_a_p___f_i_l_e then aaffmmttooddiitt will
put it in the groff font file as an unnamed character,
which can be accessed by the \\NN escape sequence in ttrrooffff.
The groff font file will be output to a file called _f_o_n_t.
If there is a downloadable font file for the font, it may
be listed in the file
//uussrr//sshhaarree//ggrrooffff__ffoonntt//ddeevvppss//ddoowwnnllooaadd; see ggrrooppss(1).
If the --ii option is used, aaffmmttooddiitt will automatically gen-
erate an italic correction, a left italic correction and a
subscript correction for each character (the significance
of these parameters is explained in ggrrooffff__ffoonntt(5)); these
parameters may be specified for individual characters by
adding to the _a_f_m___f_i_l_e lines of the form:
iittaalliiccCCoorrrreeccttiioonn _p_s___c_h_a_r _n
lleeffttIIttaalliiccCCoorrrreeccttiioonn _p_s___c_h_a_r _n
ssuubbssccrriippttCCoorrrreeccttiioonn _p_s___c_h_a_r _n
where _p_s___c_h_a_r 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.
OOPPTTIIOONNSS
--nn Don't output a lliiggaattuurreess command for this font.
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Use this with constant-width fonts.
--ss The font is special. The effect of this option is
to add the ssppeecciiaall command to the font file.
--dd_d_e_s_c___f_i_l_e
The device description file is _d_e_s_c___f_i_l_e rather
than the default DDEESSCC.
--ee_e_n_c___f_i_l_e
The PostScript font should be reencoded to use the
encoding described in enc_file. The format of
_e_n_c___f_i_l_e is described in ggrrooppss(1).
--aa_n Use _n as the slant parameter in the font file; this
is used by groff in the positioning of accents. By
default aaffmmttooddiitt uses the negative of the ItalicAn-
gle 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 --aa option to give
the font a smaller slant.
--ii_n 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 is to the right of the charac-
ter'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 ori-
gin. The left italic correction may be negative.
This option is normally needed only with italic (or
oblique) fonts. The font files distributed with
groff were created using an option of --ii5500 for
italic fonts.
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FFIILLEESS
//uussrr//sshhaarree//ggrrooffff__ffoonntt//ddeevvppss//DDEESSCC
Device desciption file.
//uussrr//sshhaarree//ggrrooffff__ffoonntt//ddeevvppss//_F
Font description file for font _F.
//uussrr//sshhaarree//ggrrooffff__ffoonntt//ddeevvppss//ddoowwnnllooaadd
List of downloadable fonts.
//uussrr//sshhaarree//ggrrooffff__ffoonntt//ddeevvppss//tteexxtt..eenncc
Encoding used for text fonts.
//uussrr//sshhaarree//ggrrooffff__ffoonntt//ddeevvppss//ggeenneerraattee//tteexxttmmaapp
Standard mapping.
SSEEEE AALLSSOO
ggrrooffff(1), ggrrooppss(1), ggrrooffff__ffoonntt(5), ppeerrll(1)
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