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Article #10294AFM to TFM conversion
From: I. Lee Hetherington
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 21:50
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 21:50
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I've used the program AFM2TFM to convert PostScript AFM files into TFM files for use with TeX. Problem is that I want all the kerning information in the AFM file intact and *no* character recoding whatsoever. Is such a thing possible with another program? When producing a "raw" font file (no recoding) AFM2TFM doesn't output any kerning information. When producing a "virtual" file it rearranges some of the characters to make them conform to the TeX coding (mostly ligatures). Upon closer examination of the AFM2TFM code I see that when converting kerning information it ignores kerning around the digits 0-9; this is very undesirable for me. I need both character coding *and* all kerning information preserved in the conversion. (The font I am working with is not a standard text font and the standard conventions are not applicable.) Thank! Any help is greatly appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Hetherington MIT Spoken Language Systems Group -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!winnie-the-pooh!ilh From: ilh@winnie-the-pooh.mit.edu (I. Lee Hetherington) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.fonts Subject: AFM to TFM conversion Keywords: AFM,TFM Message-ID: <1991Jun17.215017.27603@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 21:50:17 GMT Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Reply-To: ilh@winnie-the-pooh.mit.edu (I. Lee Hetherington) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 21