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Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
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Name: fontinst
Author: Alan Jeffrey <alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 28.4.1993
Last changed in archive: 1994/01/14
Archive-path: fonts/utilities/fontinst
Mirrored from: ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk
Description:
This package allows you to install PostScript fonts
(or any other fonts
given in AFM format) in arbitrary encodings. Features of this font
installer are that it:
* Is written in TeX, for maximum portabilty (at the cost of speed).
* Supports the full Cork encoding (as much as one can with
PostScript fonts).
* Allows fonts to be generated in an arbitrary encoding, with
arbitrary `fake' characters---for example the `ij' character can be
faked if necessary by putting an `i' next to a `j'.
* Allows caps and small caps fonts with letter spacing and kerning.
* Allows kerning to be shared between characters, for example `ij'
can be kerned on the left as if it were an `i' and on the right as if
it were a `j'. This is useful, since many PostScript fonts only
include kerning information for characters without diacriticals.
* Allows the generation of math fonts with nextlarger,
varchar, and arbitrary font dimensions.
* Allows more than one PostScript font to contribute to a TeX font,
for example the `ffi' ligatures for a font can be taken from the
Expert encoding, if you have it.
* Automatically generates an fd file for use with version 2 of
the New Font Selection Scheme.
* Can be customized by the user to deal with arbitrary font encodings.