[OS X TeX] Help for FontForge needed

Thu Aug 31 05:23:03 EDT 2006

Am 31.08.2006 um 02:07 schrieb André Bellaïche:

>>>
>>> Silly question: What should be the Karl Berry name for "Times  
>>> Roman SC", "Times Roman OsF" or "TimesTen Roman SC" ?
>>
>> Philipp Lehman explains the rules to build KB names for ptm:  
>> ptmrc8 and ptmrj8.

I was a bit terse here: after the 8 comes the encoding (a, c, r, t,  
y, …), and of course 7t, i.e. OT1, is possible, too.

>> For TimesTen you can find your own name, I presume. Has it some  
>> particular encoding or shape?
>
> Thank you. I didn't see that. For Times Ten, I'll use tt that is  
> still free.
>
> TimesTen is just a version of Times:
>
> Times™ Ten is the version specially designed for smaller text (12  
> point and below); its characters are wider and the hairlines are a  
> little stronger. [...] Times™ Eighteen is the headline version,  
> ideal for point sizes of 18 and larger. The characters are subtly  
> condensed and the hairlines are finer.

So you would need to write a progressive and elaborate FD file that  
tells LaTeX to use either this or that 'optimised variant' or the  
general font depending on the text's size ... Automatically the right  
font would not be chosen (not even in XeTeX, I presume).

>
>>>
>>> Other question: I could read all the files in fontname directory  
>>> (as Linotype.map, etc.), but TeXShop could not open fontname.dvi.  
>>> Is that normal?
>>
>> No. Or you make a faulty description. TeXShop (actually it's  
>> dvipdfm) would not convert the DVI file to PDF without having a  
>> MAP file that maps your new PS TeX fonts to font file names and  
>> encodings.
>
> I was speaking of the present fontname.dvi I had found in the texmf  
> tree. It could not be opened by any of the following methods :   
> double clicking on its icon, dropping its icon onto the icon of  
> TeXShop, using File/Open... in TeXShop (fontname.dvi is visible).

So you would need to tell Apple's LaunchService first to which  
application this file type is bound. Control-click on the file and  
then you can choose an application from a menu. There should be other  
means, too, but I can't recall them right now ... maybe another day.

>
> After receiving your mail, I thought to use -- for the first time  
> in my life -- dvips from the Terminal. It worked, and the printer  
> began at once to print 256 pages! Happily, the paper dock was  
> almost empty, then texdoc dvips gave the cue of using -o...

When I invoke 'texdoc fontname' (and I have taught texdoc to use  
TeXShop as DVI viewer) I get written into console a few minutes long:

### This is /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ 
simpdftex, Version $Revision: 2.18 $
### Skipping latex  [dvi->pdf only]
### /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/dvips -R - 
Poutline  -o /tmp/altpdflatex.20204-1157014971/fontname.ps /usr/local/ 
teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/fonts/fontname/fontname.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software  
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2005.01.05:0132' -> /tmp/altpdflatex.20204-1157014971/ 
fontname.ps
<tex.pro><texps.pro>. <cmti9.pfb><cmr9.pfb><cmtt9.pfb><cmtt12.pfb>
<cmsltt10.pfb><cmsy10.pfb><cmsl10.pfb><cmtt10.pfb><cmti10.pfb><cmbxti10. 
pfb>
<cmbx12.pfb><cmr10.pfb>[1] [-1] [-2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]  
[9] [10]
[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]  
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### Saving intermediary ps file /tmp/altpdflatex.20204-1157014971/ 
fontname.ps as /tmp/TeXShop_Output/fontname.ps
### /usr/bin/pstopdf /tmp/altpdflatex.20204-1157014971/fontname.ps / 
tmp/altpdflatex.20204-1157014971/fontname.pdf
### Copying/moving pdf file /tmp/altpdflatex.20204-1157014971/ 
fontname.pdf to /tmp/TeXShop_Output/fontname.pdf
### Succesfully generated /tmp/TeXShop_Output/fontname.pdf and /tmp/ 
TeXShop_Output/fontname.ps

So I have to correct myself: it's not dvipdfm (that's TeXniscope's  
convertor) but simpdftex, i.e DVI->PS via dvips and then PS->PDF via  
Apple's pstopdf according to my preferences setting.

On the command line you can achieve something similiar with 'open -a  
TeXShop /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/fonts/fontname/ 
fontname.dvi' – if it does not work than you'll need to give the  
whole path name of TeXShop, which is even easier since you can user  
file name completion in Terminal and don't need to type so much upper  
and lower case characters.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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