Re: Installing Cyrillic PostScript Fonts

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:22:02 -0000 schrieb David Allsopp:
> 
> > I've just purchased Monotype Plantin Cyrillic and am trying to
> > persuade fontinst to generate TeX files for it (I've got lots of
> > purchased Latin fonts installed using fontinst already). I've
> > installed the t2 package but can't find any examples of fontinst
> > scripts for installing any Cyrillic fonts.
> >
> > Any pointers to examples much appreciated (I don't particularly care
> > about input encodings - the whole thing is in Plain TeX and I don't
> > mind having to encode this small bit of Russian using entire \char if
> > necessary). I'd just like (any) font with a table containing the
> > Cyrillic characters from the postscript font so that I can use them.
> 
> Well in this case and if one font contains all the chars you want to use I
> would suggest to simply use the brute force method:
> 
> 1. generate a tfm from the raw font with afm2tfm
> 
> 2. Write an .enc-file which lists the chars you want to use in the wanted
> order
> 
> 3. generate with afm2tfm a reencoded tfm which use this .enc
> 
> 4. Write a map-file with the line
> 
> newtfm fontname " encodingname ReEncodeFont "
>    <encodingfile.enc <type1file.pfb
> 
> 
> You can find more details in the documentation of chessfss (where I
> describe how to reencode chessfonts).

Many thanks for the pointers! I've had success using afm2tfm with the 6w.enc encoding included with the t2 package.


David

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