AFM2TFM(1)
β¨ AFM2TFM(1) β¨
General Commands Manual π
okay bestie, this is the manual page for afm2tfm π it's giving official but I'm gonna explain it for you π
πΈ NAME πΈ
afm2tfm - convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics β¨
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
okay so PostScript fonts are (or should be) accompanied by font metric files, like Times-Roman.afm, which describes the characteristics of the font called Times-Roman π§ to use fonts like that with TeX, we need TFM files that hold similar info, and that's exactly what this program does π₯
for all the details, check out the dvips manual at http://tug.org/dvips π«Ά
π FILES π
psfonts.map in the config directory used by dvips π
π SEE ALSO π
dvips(1), tex(1), vptovf(1), fontinst(1), afm2pl(1), otftotfm(1) π
π BUGS π
highkey iconic drama alert π Knuth rejected an option that would add letterspacing to the virtual font, because it would make the fi and fl ligatures break the normal rhythmic pattern π
π AUTHORS π
Tomas Rokicki and Donald E. Knuth π
maintained in TeX Live, so send bug reports or other correspondence to tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k) π
bye bestie π«Ά this page was last updated 1 February 2016 and it's from the AFM2TFM(1) manual, so you're all set β¨π
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