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NAME
autoinst - wrapper around the LCDF TypeTools, for installing and using OpenType fonts in (La)TeX.
SYNOPSIS
autoinst [options] fontfile(s)
DESCRIPTION
Eddie Kohler's LCDF TypeTools are superb tools for installing OpenType fonts in LaTeX, but they can be
hard to use: they need many, often long, command lines and don't generate the fd and sty files LaTeX
needs. autoinst simplifies the use of the TypeTools for font installation by generating and executing
all commands for otftotfm and by creating and installing all necessary fd and sty files.
Given a family of font files (in otf or ttf format), autoinst will create several LaTeX font families:
- Four text families (with lining and oldstyle digits, each in both tabular and proportional
variants), all with the following shapes:
n Roman text
it, sl Italic and slanted (sometimes called oblique) text
sc Small caps
sw Swash
tl Titling shape. Meant for all-caps text only (even though it sometimes contains lowercase
glyphs as well), where letterspacing and the positioning of punctuation characters have
been adjusted to suit all-caps text. (This shape is only generated for the families with
lining digits, since old-style digits make no sense with all-caps text.)
scit, scsl
Italic and slanted small caps
nw "Upright swash"; usually roman text with a few "oldstyle" ligatures like ct, sp and st.
tlit, tlsl
Italic and slanted titling text
- For each T1-encoded text family: a family of TS1-encoded symbol fonts, in roman, italic and slanted
shapes.
- Families with superiors, inferiors, numerators and denominators, in roman, italic and slanted
shapes.
- An ornament family, in roman, italic and slanted shapes.
Of course, if the fonts don't contain italics, oldstyle digits, small caps etc., the corresponding shapes
and families are not created. In addition, the creation of most families and shapes can be controlled by
options (see "COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS" below).
These families use the FontPro project's naming scheme: <FontFamily>-<Suffix>, where <Suffix> is:
LF proportional (i.e., figures have varying widths) lining figures
TLF tabular (i.e., all figures have the same width) lining figures
OsF proportional oldstyle figures
TOsF tabular oldstyle figures
Sup superior characters (note that most fonts have only an incomplete set of superior characters:
digits, some punctuation and the letters abdeilmnorst; normal forms are used for other
characters)
Inf inferior characters; usually only digits and some punctuation, normal forms for other characters
Orn ornaments
Numr numerators
Dnom denominators
The generated fonts are named <FontName>-<suffix>-<shape>-<enc>, where <suffix> is the same as above (but
in lowercase), <shape> is either empty, "sc", "swash" or "titling", and <enc> is the encoding (also in
lowercase). A typical name in this scheme would be "FiraSans-Light-osf-sc-ly1".
On the choice of text encoding
By default, autoinst generates text fonts with OT1, T1 and LY1 encodings, and the generated style files
use LY1 as the default text encoding. LY1 has been chosen over T1 because it has some empty slots to
accommodate the additional ligatures provided by many OpenType fonts. Other encodings can be chosen
using the -encoding option (see "COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS" below).
Using the fonts in your LaTeX documents
autoinst generates a style file for using the font in LaTeX documents, named <FontFamily>.sty. This style
file also takes care of loading the fontenc and textcomp packages. To use the font, put the command
"\usepackage{<FontFamily>}" in the preamble of your document.
This style file defines a number of options:
"lining", "oldstyle", "tabular", "proportional"
Choose which figure style to use. The defaults are "oldstyle" and "proportional" (if available).
"scale=<number>"
Scale the font by a factor of <number>. E.g., to increase the size of the font by 5%, use
"\usepackage[scale=1.05]{<FontFamily>}". May also be spelled "scaled".
This option is only available when you have the xkeyval package installed.
"light", "medium", "regular"
Select the weight that LaTeX will use as the "regular" weight; the default is "regular".
"ultrablack", "ultrabold", "heavy", "extrablack", "black", "extrabold", "demibold", "semibold", "bold"
Select the weight that LaTeX will use as the "bold" weight; the default is "bold".
The previous two groups of options will only work if you have the mweights package installed.
The style file will also try to load the fontaxes package (available on CTAN), which gives easy access to
various font shapes and styles. Using the machinery set up by fontaxes, the generated style file defines
a number of commands (which take the text to be typeset as argument) and declarations (which don't take
arguments, but affect all text up to the end of the current group) to access titling, superior and
inferior characters:
DECLARATION COMMAND SHORT FORM OF COMMAND
\tlshape \texttitling \texttl
\sufigures \textsuperior \textsu
\infigures \textinferior \textin
In addition, the "\swshape" and "\textsw" commands are redefined to place swash on the secondary shape
axis (fontaxes places it on the primary shape axis) to make them behave properly when nested, so that
"\swshape\upshape" will give upright swash.
There are no commands for accessing the numerator and denominator fonts; these can be selected using
fontaxes' standard commands, e.g., "\fontfigurestyle{numerator}\selectfont".
The style file also provides a command "\ornament{<number>}", where "<number>" is a number from 0 to the
total number of ornaments minus one. Ornaments are always typeset using the current family, series and
shape. A list of all ornaments in a font can be created by running LaTeX on the file nfssfont.tex (part
of a standard LaTeX installation) and supplying the name of the ornament font.
To access the ornaments, autoinst creates a font-specific encoding file <FontFamily>_orn.enc, but only if
that file doesn't yet exist in the current directory. This is a deliberate feature that allows you to
provide your own encoding vector, e.g. if your fonts use non-standard glyph names for ornaments.
These commands are only generated for existing shapes and number styles; no commands are generated for
shapes and styles that don't exist, or whose generation was turned off by the user. Also these commands
are built on top of fontaxes, so if that package cannot be found, you're limited to using the lower-level
commands from standard NFSS ("\fontfamily", "\fontseries", "\fontshape" etc.).
NFSS codes
NFSS identifies fonts by a combination of family, series (the concatenation of weight and width), shape
and size. autoinst parses the output of "otfinfo --info" to determine these parameters. When this fails
(e.g., because the font family contains uncommon widths or weights), autoinst ends up with different
fonts having the same values for these font parameters, which means that these fonts cannot be used in
NFSS. In that case, autoinst will split the font family into multiple subfamilies (based on each font
file's "Subfamily" value) and try again. (Since many font vendors misunderstand the "Subfamily" concept
and make each font file its own separate subfamily, this strategy is only used as a last resort.)
If such a proliferation of font families is unwanted, either run autoinst on a smaller set of fonts or
add the missing widths, weights and shapes to the tables %FD_WIDTH, %FD_WEIGHT and %FD_SHAPE, at the
beginning of the source code. Please also send a bug report (see AUTHOR below).
autoinst maps widths, weights and shapes to NFSS codes using the following tables. These are based on the
standard Fontname scheme and Philipp Lehman's Font Installation Guide, but some changes were made to
avoid name clashes in font families with many different widths and weights, such as Helvetica Neue and
Fira Sans.
WEIGHT WIDTH
Two 2 [1] Ultra Compressed up
Four 4 [1] Extra Compressed ep
Eight 8 [1] Compressed p
Hair a Compact p
Thin t Ultra Condensed uc
Ultra Light ul Extra Condensed ec
Extra Light el Condensed c
Light l Narrow n
Book sl [2] Semicondensed sc
Regular [3] Regular [3]
Medium mb Semiextended sx
Demibold db Extended x
Semibold sb Expanded e
Bold b Wide w
Extra Bold eb
Ultra ub
Ultra Bold ub SHAPE
Black k
Extra Black ek Roman, Upright n [4]
Ultra Black uk Italic it
Heavy h Cursive, Kursiv it
Poster r Oblique sl [5]
Slanted sl [5]
Incline(d) sl [5]
Notes
[1] These weights only occur (as far as I know) in Fira Sans.
[2] Since release 2018-01-09, autoinst adds "ssub" rules to the fd files to substitute "Book" weight for
"Regular" when the latter is missing. Before that, "Book" was treated as a synonym for "Regular".
[3] When both weight and width are empty, the "series" attribute becomes "m".
[4] Adobe Silentium Pro contains two "Roman" shapes ("RomanI" and "RomanII"); the first of these is
mapped to "n", the second one to "it".
[5] Since release 2014-01-21; before that, slanted shapes were mapped to "it".
A note for MiKTeX users
Automatically installing the fonts into a suitable TEXMF tree (as autoinst tries to do by default)
requires a TeX-installation that uses the kpathsea library; with TeX distributions that implement their
own directory searching (such as MiKTeX), autoinst will complain that it cannot find the kpsewhich
program and install all generated files into subdirectories of the current directory. If you use such a
TeX distribution, you should either move these files to their correct destinations by hand, or use the
-target option (see "COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS" below) to specify a TEXMF tree.
Also, some OpenType fonts may lead to pl and vpl files that are too big for MiKTeX's pltotf and vptovf;
the versions that come with W32TeX (http://www.w32tex.org) and TeXLive (http://tug.org/texlive) don't
seem to have this problem.
COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
autoinst tries hard to do The Right Thing (TM) by default, so in many cases you won't need these options;
but most aspects of its operation can be fine-tuned if you want to.
You may use either one or two dashes before options, and option names may be shortened to a unique prefix
(e.g., -encoding may be abbreviated to -enc or even -en, but -e is ambiguous (it may mean either
-encoding or -extra)).
-dryrun
Don't actually do anything, only create the logfile autoinst.log showing which fonts would have been
generated.
-encoding=encoding[,encoding]
Generate the specified encoding(s) for the text fonts. The default is "OT1,T1,LY1". For each
encoding, a file <encoding>.enc (in all lowercase!) should be somewhere where otftotfm can find it.
Suitable encoding files for OT1, T1/TS1 and LY1 come with autoinst. (These files are called
fontools_ot1.enc etc. to avoid name clashes with other packages; the "fontools_" prefix may be
omitted.)
Multiple text encodings can be specified as a comma-separated list: "-encoding=OT1,T1" (without
spaces!). The generated style file passes these encodings to fontenc in the specified order, so the
last one will become the default text encoding for your documents.
-ts1 / -nots1
Control the creation of TS1-encoded fonts. The default is -ts1 if the text encodings (see -encoding
above) include T1, -nots1 otherwise.
-sanserif
Install the font as a sanserif font, accessed via "\sffamily" and "\textsf". The generated style
file redefines "\familydefault", so including it will still make this font the default text font.
-typewriter
Install the font as a typewriter font, accessed via "\ttfamily" and "\texttt". The generated style
file redefines "\familydefault", so including it will still make this font the default text font.
-lining / -nolining
Control the creation of fonts with lining figures. The default is -lining.
-oldstyle / -nooldstyle
Control the creation of fonts with oldstyle figures. The default is -oldstyle.
-proportional / -noproportional
Control the creation of fonts with proportional figures. The default is -proportional.
-tabular / -notabular
Control the creation of fonts with tabular figures. The default is -tabular.
-smallcaps / -nosmallcaps
Control the creation of small caps fonts. The default is -smallcaps.
-swash / -noswash
Control the creation of swash fonts. The default is -swash.
-titling / -notitling
Control the creation of titling fonts. The default is -titling.
-superiors / -nosuperiors
Control the creation of fonts with superior characters. The default is -superiors.
-inferiors=[ sinf | subs | dnom ]
The OpenType standard defines several kinds of digits that might be used as inferiors or subscripts:
"Scientific Inferiors" (OpenType feature "sinf"), "Subscripts" ("subs") and "Denominators" ("dnom").
This option allows the user to determine which of these styles autoinst should use for the inferior
characters. The default is not to create fonts with inferior characters.
Note that many fonts contain only one (or even none) of these types of inferior characters. If you
specify a style of inferiors that isn't actually present in the font, autoinst silently falls back to
its default of not creating fonts with inferiors; it doesn't try to substitute one of the other
features.
-fractions / -nofractions
Control the creation of fonts with numerators and denominators. The default is -nofractions.
-ornaments / -noornaments
Control the creation of ornament fonts. The default is -ornaments.
-defaultlining / -defaultoldstyle
-defaulttabular / -defaultproportional
Tell autoinst which figure style is the current font family's default (i.e., which figures you get
when you don't specify any OpenType features).
Don't use these options unless you are certain you need them! They are only needed for fonts that
don't provide OpenType features for their default figure style; and even in that case, autoinst's
default values (-defaultlining and -defaulttabular) are usually correct.
-nofigurekern
Some fonts provide kerning pairs for tabular figures. This is very probably not what you want (e.g.,
numbers in tables won't line up exactly). This option adds extra --ligkern options to the commands
for otftotfm to suppress such kerns. Note that this option leads to very long commands (it adds one
hundred --ligkern options), which may cause problems on some systems.
-extra=text
Append text as extra options to the command lines for otftotfm. To prevent text from accidentily
being interpreted as options to autoinst, it should be properly quoted.
-manual
Manual mode. By default, autoinst immediately executes all otftotfm commands it generates; with the
-manual option, these commands are instead written to a file autoinst.bat. Furthermore it adds the
--pl option (which tells otftotfm to generate human readable/editable pl and vpl files instead of the
default tfm and vf files) and omits the --automatic option (which causes otftotfm to leave all
generated files in the current directory, rather than install them into your TEXMF tree). Manual mode
is meant to enable tweaking the generated commands and post-processing the generated files.
When using this option, run pltotf and vptovf after executing the commands (to convert the pl and vf
files to tfm and vf format) and move all generated files to their proper destinations.
All following options are only meaningful in automatic mode, and hence ignored in manual mode:
-target=DIRECTORY
Install all generated files into the TEXMF tree at DIRECTORY.
By default, autoinst searches your $TEXMFLOCAL and $TEXMFHOME paths and installs all files into
subdirectories of the first writable TEXMF tree it finds (or into subdirectories of the current
directory, if no writable directory is found).
-vendor=VENDOR
-typeface=TYPEFACE
These options are equivalent to otftotfm's --vendor and --typeface options: they change the
"vendor" and "typeface" parts of the names of the subdirectories in the TEXMF tree where generated
files will be stored. The default values are "lcdftools" and the font's FontFamily name.
Note that these options change only directory names, not the names of any generated files.
-updmap / -noupdmap
Control whether or not updmap is called after the last call to otftotfm. The default is -updmap.
SEE ALSO
Eddie Kohler's TypeTools (http://www.lcdf.org/type).
Perl can be obtained from http://www.perl.org; it is a standard part of many Linux distributions. For
Windows, try ActivePerl (http://www.activestate.com) or Strawberry Perl (http://strawberryperl.com).
XeTeX (http://www.tug.org/xetex) and LuaTeX (http://www.luatex.org) are Unicode-aware TeX engines that
can use OpenType fonts directly, without the need for any (La)TeX-specific support files.
The FontPro project (https://github.com/sebschub/FontPro) offers very complete LaTeX support (including
math) for Adobe's Minion Pro, Myriad Pro and Cronos Pro font families.
John Owens' otfinst (available from CTAN) is another wrapper around otftotfm.
AUTHOR
Marc Penninga <marcpenninga@gmail.com>
When sending a bug report, please give as much relevant information as possible; this includes at least
(but may not be limited to) the log file autoinst.log. If you see any error messages (either from
autoinst itself, from the LCDF TypeTools, from Perl or from the OS), please include these verbatim as
well; don't paraphrase them.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Marc Penninga.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version. A copy of the text of the GNU General Public License is included in
the fontools distribution; see the file GPLv2.txt.
DISCLAIMER
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
License for more details.
RECENT CHANGES
(See the source for the full story, all the way back to 2005.)
2018-01-09 Added the "sl" weight for font families (such as Fira Sans) that contain both "Book" and
"Regular" weights (reported by Bob Tennent). Added the "Two", "Four", "Eight" and "Hair"
weights.
2017-06-16 Changed the -inferiors option from a binary yes-or-no choice to allow the user to choose one
of the "sinf", "subs" and "dnom" features. autoinst now always creates a log file.
2017-03-21 Updated the fontools_ot1.enc encoding file to include the "Lslash" and "lslash" glyphs
(thanks to Bob Tennent).
fontools 2018-01-09 AUTOINST(1)