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NAME

       afmtodit - create font files for use with groff -Tps and -Tpdf

SYNOPSIS

       afmtodit [ -ckmnsvx ] [ -a n ] [ -d desc_file ] [ -e enc_file ] [ -f internal_name ] [ -i n ]
                [ -o out_file ] afm_file map_file font

       The whitespace between a command line option and its argument is optional.

DESCRIPTION

       afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff, grops, and gropdf.  afmtodit is  written  in  perl;  you
       must have perl version 5.004 or newer installed in order to run afmtodit.

       afm_file is the AFM (Adobe Font Metric) file for the font.

       map_file  is  a  file that says which groff character names map onto each PostScript character name; this
       file should contain a sequence of lines of the form

              ps_char groff_char

       where ps_char is the PostScript name of the character and groff_char is the groff name of  the  character
       (as used in the groff font file).  The same ps_char can occur multiple times in the file; each groff_char
       must occur at most once.  Lines starting with # and blank lines are ignored.  If the file isn't found  in
       the current directory, it is searched in the ‘devps/generate’ subdirectory of the default font directory.

       If  a  PostScript character is not mentioned in map_file, and a generic groff glyph name can't be deduced
       using the Adobe Glyph List (AGL, built into afmtodit), then afmtodit puts the PostScript  character  into
       the  groff  font  file  as  an  unnamed character which can only be accessed by the \N escape sequence in
       troff.  In particular, this is true for glyph variants like ‘foo.bar’; all glyph names containing one  or
       more  periods are mapped to unnamed entities.  If option -e is not specified, the encoding defined in the
       AFM file (i.e., entries with non-negative character codes) is  used.   Please  refer  to  section  ‘Using
       Symbols’ in the groff info file which describes how groff glyph names are constructed.

       Characters  not  encoded  in  the  AFM file (i.e., entries which have -1 as the character code) are still
       available in groff; they get glyph index values greater than 255 (or greater than the  biggest  character
       code  used  in  the  AFM  file  in the unlikely case that it is greater than 255) in the groff font file.
       Glyph indices of unencoded characters don't have a specific order; it is best to access them  with  glyph
       names only.

       The groff font file will be output to a file called font, unless the -o option is used.

       If   there   is   a   downloadable   font   file   for   the   font,   it  may  be  listed  in  the  file
       /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps/download; see grops(1).

       If the -i option is used, afmtodit will automatically  generate  an  italic  correction,  a  left  italic
       correction  and  a  subscript  correction  for  each  character  (the significance of these parameters is
       explained in groff_font(5)); these parameters may be specified for individual characters by adding to the
       afm_file lines of the form:

              italicCorrection ps_char n
              leftItalicCorrection ps_char n
              subscriptCorrection ps_char n

       where  ps_char  is  the PostScript name of the character, and 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.

OPTIONS

       -an    Use  n  as  the  slant  parameter  in  the  font file; this is used by groff in the positioning of
              accents.  By default 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 -a option to give the font a smaller slant.

       -c     Include comments in the font file in order to identify the PS font.

       -ddesc_file
              The  device  description  file  is  desc_file  rather  than the default DESC.  If not found in the
              current directory, the ‘devps subdirectory of the default font directory is searched (this is true
              for both the default device description file and a file given with option -d).

       -eenc_file
              The  PostScript font should be reencoded to use the encoding described in enc_file.  The format of
              enc_file is  described  in  grops(1).   If  not  found  in  the  current  directory,  the  ‘devps’
              subdirectory of the default font directory is searched.

       -fname The internal name of the groff font is set to name.

       -in    Generate  an  italic  correction  for  each  character  so  that  the  character's  width plus the
              character's italic correction is equal to n thousandths of an em plus  the  amount  by  which  the
              right  edge  of  the  character's bounding box is to the right of the character's origin.  If this
              would result in a negative italic correction, use a zero italic correction instead.

              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.

              Also generate a left italic correction for each character equal to n 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 unless option -m is given.

              This  option  is  normally needed only with italic (or oblique) fonts.  The font files distributed
              with groff were created using an option of -i50 for italic fonts.

       -oout_file
              The output file is out_file instead of font.

       -k     Omit any kerning data from the groff font.  This should be used only for mono-spaced fonts.

       -m     Prevent negative left italic correction values.  Roman font  files  distributed  with  groff  were
              created with -i0 -m to improve spacing with eqn(1).

       -n     Don't output a ligatures command for this font.  Use this with constant-width fonts.

       -s     The font is special.  The effect of this option is to add the special command to the font file.

       -v     Print version.

       -x     Don't use the built-in Adobe Glyph List.

FILES

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps/DESC      Device description file.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps/F         Font description file for font F.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps/download  List of downloadable fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps/text.enc  Encoding used for text fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.22.3/font/devps/generate/textmap
                                                    Standard mapping.

SEE ALSO

       groff(1), grops(1), groff_font(5), perl(1)

       The groff info file, section ‘Using Symbols’.

COPYING

       Copyright © 1989-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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       and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

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       verbatim  copying,  provided  that  the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
       permission notice identical to this one.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the
       above  conditions  for  modified  versions,  except  that  this  permission  notice  may  be  included in
       translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.