font manual - Pragma ADE

40
Installing such a font can be handled by this script. For this you need to know (or
invent) the name of the font vendor, as well as the name of the font. The full set of
command line switches is given below: 6
switch
fontroot
vendor
collection
encoding
sourcepath
install
makepath
show
meaning
texmf font root (automatically determined)
vendor name (first level directory)
font collection (second level directory)
encoding vector (default: texnansi)
when installing, copy from this path
copy files from source to font tree
when needed, create the paths
run tex on *.tex afterwards
You seldom need to use them all. In any case it helps if you have a local path defined
already. The next sequence does the trick:
texfont --ve=FontFun --co=FirstFont --en=texnansi --ma --in
This will generate the tfm files from the afm files, and copy them to the right place.
The Type 1 files (pfb) will be copied too. The script also generates a map file. When
this is done successfully, a T E X file is generated and processed that shows the font
maps. If this file looks right, you can start using the fonts. The T E X file also show you
how to define the fonts.
This script can also do a couple of more advanced tricks. Let us assume that we
have bought (or downloaded) a new font package in the files demofont.afm and
demofont.pfb which are available on the current (probably scratch) directory. First
we make sure that this font is installed (in our case we use a copy of the public Iwona
Regular):
texfont --ve=test --co=test --ma --in demofont
We can now say:
\loadmapfile[texnansi-test-test.map]
\definefontsynonym[DemoFont][texnansi-demofont]
\ruledhbox{\definedfont[DemoFont at 50pt]Interesting}
6 there are a couple of more switches described in the manual mtexfonts.