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diff --git a/contrib/groff/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.man b/contrib/groff/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.man index 585c229..2d4c866 100644 --- a/contrib/groff/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.man +++ b/contrib/groff/src/utils/afmtodit/afmtodit.man @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .ig -Copyright (C) 1989-2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1989-2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice @@ -16,15 +16,23 @@ versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English. .. +. +. .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. .de Tp .ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP .el .TP "\\$1" .. +. +. .TH AFMTODIT @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@" +. +. .SH NAME afmtodit \- create font files for use with groff \-Tps +. +. .SH SYNOPSIS .nr a \n(.j .ad l @@ -36,6 +44,7 @@ afmtodit \- create font files for use with groff \-Tps .ie \\n(.$-1 .RI "[\ \fB\\$1\fP" "\\$2" "\ ]" .el .RB "[\ " "\\$1" "\ ]" .. +. .OP \-nsv .OP \-d desc_file .OP \-e enc_file @@ -46,16 +55,21 @@ afmtodit \- create font files for use with groff \-Tps .I font .br .ad \na +. +. .SH DESCRIPTION .B afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff and .BR grops . +. .B afmtodit is written in perl; -you must have perl version 3 installed in order to run +you must have perl version 3 or newer installed in order to run .BR afmtodit . +. .I afm_file is the AFM (Adobe Font Metric) file for the font. +. .I map_file is a file that says which groff character names map onto each PostScript character name; @@ -69,15 +83,22 @@ where is the PostScript name of the character and .I groff_char -is the groff name of the character (as used in the groff font file.) +is the groff name of the character (as used in the groff font file). +. The same .I ps_char can occur multiple times in the file; each .I groff_char must occur at most once. +. +Lines starting with +.B # +and blank lines are ignored. +. .I font is the groff name of the font. +. If a PostScript character is in the encoding to be used for the font but is not mentioned in .I map_file @@ -88,14 +109,17 @@ which can be accessed by the .B \eN escape sequence in .BR troff . +. The groff font file will be output to a file called .IR font . +. .LP If there is a downloadable font file for the font, it may be listed in the file .BR @FONTDIR@/devps/download ; see .BR grops (@MAN1EXT@). +. .LP If the .B \-i @@ -123,53 +147,67 @@ is the PostScript name of the character, and .I n is the desired value of the corresponding parameter in thousandths of an em. +. These parameters are normally needed only for italic (or oblique) fonts. +. +. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-v Print version. +. .TP .B \-n Don't output a .B ligatures command for this font. +. Use this with constant-width fonts. +. .TP .B \-s The font is special. +. The effect of this option is to add the .B special command to the font file. +. .TP .BI \-d desc_file The device description file is .I desc_file rather than the default .BR DESC . +. .TP .BI \-e enc_file The PostScript font should be reencoded to use the encoding described in enc_file. +. The format of .I enc_file is described in .BR grops (@MAN1EXT@). +. .TP .BI \-a n Use .I n as the slant parameter in the font file; this is used by groff in the positioning of accents. +. By default .B afmtodit uses the negative of the ItalicAngle specified in the afm file; with true italic fonts it is sometimes desirable to use a slant that is less than this. +. If you find that characters from an italic font have accents placed too far to the right over them, then use the .B \-a option to give the font a smaller slant. +. .TP .BI \-i n Generate an italic correction for each character so that @@ -179,15 +217,19 @@ is equal to thousandths of an em plus the amount by which the right edge of the character's bounding is to the right of the character's origin. +. If this would result in a negative italic correction, use a zero italic correction instead. +. .IP Also generate a subscript correction equal to the product of the tangent of the slant of the font and four fifths of the x-height of the font. +. If this would result in a subscript correction greater than the italic correction, use a subscript correction equal to the italic correction instead. +. .IP Also generate a left italic correction for each character equal to @@ -195,29 +237,40 @@ equal to thousandths of an em plus the amount by which the left edge of the character's bounding box is to the left of the character's origin. +. The left italic correction may be negative. +. .IP This option is normally needed only with italic (or oblique) fonts. +. The font files distributed with groff were created using an option of .B \-i50 for italic fonts. +. +. .SH FILES .Tp \w'\fB@FONTDIR@/devps/download'u+2n .B @FONTDIR@/devps/DESC Device description file. +. .TP .BI @FONTDIR@/devps/ F Font description file for font .IR F . +. .TP .B @FONTDIR@/devps/download List of downloadable fonts. +. .TP .B @FONTDIR@/devps/text.enc Encoding used for text fonts. +. .TP .B @FONTDIR@/devps/generate/textmap Standard mapping. +. +. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@), .BR grops (@MAN1EXT@), |
