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NAME
autoinst - wrapper around the LCDF TypeTools, for installing OpenType fonts in LaTeX.
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, in both tabular and proportional variants),
each 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 normal text with "oldstyle" ligatures such as ct, sp and st.
tlit, tlsl
Italic and slanted titling text
- For each text family: a family of TS1-encoded symbol fonts, in roman, italic and slanted shapes.
- Four 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. Furthermore, the creation of most families and shapes can be controlled by
command-line 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 (many 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. A typical
name in this scheme is "LinLibertineO-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
accomodate the additional ligatures provided by many OpenType fonts. Different encodings can be chosen
using the -encoding command-line 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, simply put
"\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>. For example: 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.
"ultrablack", "ultrabold", "heavy", "extrablack", "black", "extrabold", "demibold", "semibold", "bold"
Choose the weight that LaTeX will use for the "bold" weight.
"light", "medium", "regular"
Choose the weight that LaTeX will use for the "regular" weight.
These last 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) of its own:
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); this makes these commands 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 has been turned off using command-line options.
Also: these commands are built on top of fontaxes; if that package cannot be found, you're limited to
using the lower-level commands from standard NFSS ("\fontfamily", "\fontseries", "\fontshape" etc.).
Using multiple font families in one document
Style files generated by versions of autoinst older dan 2013-07-25 redefined "\mddefault" and
"\bfdefault", whereas newer style files use the mweights package instead. If you use multiple
autoinst-generated font familes in the same document, it is best if all style files are generated by the
same version of autoinst; re-generate the older families if necessary.
NFSS codes
NFSS identifies fonts by a combination of family, series (weight plus 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 top
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 as
much as possible 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 widths and weights.
WEIGHT WIDTH
Thin t Ultra Compressed up
Ultra Light ul Extra Compressed ep
Extra Light el Compressed p
Light l Compact p
Book [1] Ultra Condensed uc
Regular [1] Extra Condensed ec
Medium mb Condensed c
Demibold db Narrow n
Semibold sb Semicondensed sc
Bold b Regular [1]
Extra Bold eb Semiextended sx
Ultra ub Extended x
Ultra Bold ub Expanded e
Black k Wide w
Extra Black ek
Ultra Black uk
Heavy h SHAPE
Poster r
Roman, Upright n [2]
Italic it
Cursive, Kursiv it
Oblique sl [3]
Slanted sl [3]
Incline(d) sl [3]
Notes:
[1] When both weight and width are empty, the "series" attribute becomes "m".
[2] Adobe Silentium Pro contains two "Roman" shapes ("RomanI" and "RomanII"); the first of these is
mapped to "n", the second one to "it".
[3] New in release 2014-01-21; before that, slanted fonts were mapped to "it".
A note for MiKTeX users
Automatically installing the fonts into a suitable TEXMF tree (as autoinst does 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
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 changed 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 (-encoding, -extra).
-dryrun
Don't actually generate any fonts and files, only create a logfile showing which fonts would be
generated. By default, this information is written to autoinst.log; use the -logfile option to
specify a different filename.
-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 (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". The encodings
are passed to fontenc in the order specified, so the last one will be the default text encoding.
-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 / -noinferiors
Control the creation of fonts with inferior digits. The default is -noinferiors.
-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.
-verbose
Verbose mode; print detailed information about which fonts autoinst is generating. By default, this
information is written to autoinst.log; a different filename can be specified using the -logfile
option. Repeat this option for even more detailed information.
-logfile=LOGFILE
Write the logging information to LOGFILE instead of autoinst.log.
-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, the default
values (-defaultlining and -defaulttabular) are usually correct.
-figurekern / -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). The option -nofigurekern adds extra --ligkern options to
the commands for otftotfm to suppress such kerns (but of course only for the families with tabular
figures). Since this leads to very long commands (one hundred such options in total!) and the
problem only occurs in very few fonts, the default is -figurekern.
-extra=text
Add text to the command line to otftotfm. To prevent text from accidentily being interpreted as
options to autoinst, it should be properly quoted.
-manual
Manual mode. By default, autoinst executes all otftotfm commands it generates; with the -manual
option, these commands are instead written to a file autoinst.bat. Also, the generated otftotfm
commands specify the --pl option (which tells otftotfm to generate human readable/editable pl and
vpl files instead of the default tfm and vf files) and omit the --automatic option (which causes
otftotfm to leave all generated files in the current directory, rather than install them into your
TEXMF tree).
When using this option, you should run pltotf and vptovf after executing all commands, to convert the
pl and vf files to tfm and vf format.
The 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 downloaded from http://www.perl.org; it is pre-installed on many Linux distributions. For
Windows, try ActivePerl (http://www.activestate.com) or Strawberry Perl (http://strawberryperl.com).
The FontPro project (https://github.com/sebschub/FontPro) offers very complete LaTeX support for Adobe's
Minion Pro and Myriad Pro (including math), and is currently working on Cronos Pro.
XeTeX (http://www.tug.org/xetex) and LuaTeX (http://www.luatex.org) are TeX engines that can use fonts in
many formats (including both flavours of OpenType) without TeX-specific support files.
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 output from running autoinst with the -verbose option. Please include
all (if any) error messages as well.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2015 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 code for the rest of the story.)
2015-11-22 Bugfix: Latex doesn't like command names with dashes in it.
2015-05-13 Fixed an error message that mixed up width and weight.
2014-04-04 Fixed a bug in the font info parsing code.
2014-01-21 "Oblique" or "slanted" fonts are now mapped to NFSS code "sl" instead of "it"; added "ssub"
rules to the <fd> files to substitute slanted fonts for italic ones if the latter are
missing. Fixed a few bugs.
2014-01-03 Added the -dryrun and -logfile options; changed which info is logged. Added the -lining,
-oldstyle, -tabular and -proportional options; the old options with those names have been
renamed to -defaultlining, -defaultoldstyle etc.
fontools 2015-11-22 AUTOINST(1)