Latex Tips Tricks And Docs

This is a more concrete variation of http://www.arcetri.astro.it/CC/guides/truetype/index.html specialized for debian etch.

• Create temporary working directory and go there
• Copy the candidate TTF files here
• Rename the files according to ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/fontname/fontname.pdf.
  • The font creator (first letter) is looked up in /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/map/fontname/supplier.map
  • The font family (next two letters) is lookup in /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/map/fontname/typeface.map
  • Therer are lots of variants (next few letters). The normal variants we see are: regular (r), bold (b), italic (ri) and bold italic (bi).
  • Last is the encoding of the font which is probably Adobe standard encoding (8a)
• Set the shell variable $namebase to the first three letters of the new fontname (creator and family)
• Set the shell variables $supplier and $fontname to the lowercase complete (not single-letter) supplier/fontname of the font.
• Now run ttf2pt1 on all fonts. This command saves the mapping of LaTeX name to PostScript name in fontnames.txt:

 # for f in *.ttf; do \
       ttf2pt1 -a -e $f ${f%.ttf} 2>/dev/null; \
       name="`ttf2pt1 -a -b $f ${f%.ttf} 2>&1 | grep -F FontName | cut -d ' ' -f 2-`"; \
       echo ${f%.ttf} $name; \
   done | tee fontnames.txt

• Next step is to run fontinst.sty on the files:

 # tex "\input fontinst.sty \latinfamily{$namebase}{} \bye"

• Now we run all these fonts trough pltotf and vptovf and clean up:

 # for a in *.pl; do pltotf $a; done
 # for a in *.vpl; do vptovf $a; done
 # rm *.pl *.vpl *.mtx

• Now to the installation. I manage all these fonts using stow.
• We move everything over:

 # texmf="/usr/local/stow/latex-font-$supplier-$fontname/share/texmf"; \
   for ext in tfm vf pfa afm ttf; do \
       sudo mkdir -p $texmf/fonts/$ext/$supplier/$fontname; \
       sudo mv *.$a $texmf/fonts/$ext/$supplier/$fontname; \
   done; \
   sudo mkdir -p $texmf/fonts/type1/$supplier/$fontname; \
   sudo mv *.pfb $texmf/fonts/type1/$supplier/$fontname; \
   sudo mkdir -p $texmf/tex/latex/psnfss; \
   sudo mv *.fd $texmf/tex/latex/psnfss

• After this, only fontinst.log and fontnames.txt should be left in the current directory.
• We now must create the map file for this font family:

 # while read tex ps; do \
       name="${tex%8a}8r"; \
       echo "$name $ps \"TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont\" <8r.enc <$tex.pfb"; \
   done <fontnames.txt >$supplier-$fontname.map; \
   sudo mkdir -p $texmf/dvips/config; \
   sudo mv $supplier-$fontname.map $texmf/dvips/config

• We add a new map file to update-updmap. Then we update all the tex indices

 # ( cd /usr/local/stow; \
     sudo chown -R root.staff latex-font-$supplier-$fontname; \
     sudo stow latex-font-$supplier-$fontname ); \
   echo "Map $supplier-$fontname.map" >50$supplier-$fontname.cfg; \
   sudo cp 50$supplier-$fontname.cfg /etc/texmf/updmap.d; \
   sudo texhash; \
   sudo update-updmap; \
   sudo updmap-sys

• Now you may want to add additional style files which provide canned \selectfont calls to make use of the font. Place those in $texmf/tex/latex/font-$supplier-$fontname/. Example:

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}

\def\fileversion{1.0}
\def\filename{georgia}
\def\filedate{2004/08/10}

\ProvidesPackage{\filename}[\filedate\space\fileversion\space MS
  Georgia font for LaTeX]

\newcommand{\georgia}{\usefont{T1}{jgi}{m}{n}\selectfont}