[OS X TeX] Using OTF-fonts for TeX

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.05.2006 um 21:49 schrieb Moritz Bosse Biskup:

>
> installing the libraries via i-installer did not really work; in  
> the "Configure Only"-tab for the TeX-ii2 package I only found  
> options to change Paper Format, Languages, and stuff like that.  
> Perhaps I looked at the wrong "Configure Only"-tab. And the current  
> ii2-package "Eddie Kohlers LCDF Typetools" is currently version  
> 2.34 whereas the otftex_install.py script needs otfinfo 2.38 to  
> work properly.

If this way fails, a simple work-around would be to Install&Configure  
completely in Expert Mode ... might take half an hour longer.

>
> Using the LCDF-tools I built, I managed to run otftex_install.py;  
> but somehow the script did not really do what I expected.  The  
> otftex_install script read the otf-files and did convert them; but  
> the files were not placed where I would have expected them  
> according to the scripts description. Perhaps because it is missing  
> the kpathsea-library? Or do I need to run otftex_install with root  
> privileges to work properly?

Yes, 'sudo -H <tool and parameters>' would be needed to access the / 
usr/local/teTeX tree. Afterwards a 'sudo texhash' is needed to teach  
TeX the new files.

>
> The following files all ended up in my working directory.
>
> 1. I expected 4 pfb-files for Regular, Italic, Bold and BoldItalic,  
> but I got 8. Each file appears twice (xxx.pfb (around 120 KB big)  
> and XXXLCDFJ.pfb (around 8KB)). Why are there two sets of files ?

The LCDFJ files probably have the "artificial" dotlessj glyph. You  
can look into the fonts with fontforge or t1testpage ...

>
> 3. I expected 17 tfm files; instead I get 51. Three for each vf :  
> xxx.tfm / xxx--base.tfm / xxx--lcdfj.tfm. What are the extra 2  
> files for each xxx.tfm for ?

Again, you "look" into these TFM files with 'tex testfont.' In my own  
attempts with fontinst I (could) create a few more TFM files: 7t, 8t,  
8c, 8a, 8r, 8x, 8y, and my "8p" font encoding.

>
> This results in pretty clean Latex - runs. But as I am still  
> missing the MAP-files, which ?unfortunately were not generated by  
> otftex_install?, I get empty pages of output. Probably again,  
> because I built it without kpathsea or am missing some write  
> priviliges.

You probably know what's the contents of a MAP file. To add a MAP  
file you'll need to invoke 'sudo -H updmap --enable-map=<name>,' to  
"install" the MAP files in the teTeX tree you would need to invoke  
'sudo cp <from> <to>' or sudo mv <from> <to>,' followed by a 'sudo  
texhash' and a final 'sudo -H updmap --enable-map=<name>.'

>
> Does anybody have a suggestion regarding kpathsea:
> Where can I obtain that single library (lib + headers) (CTAN only  
> bundles it in web2c)?

Re-install everything needed in Expert Mode. Early you'll have in i- 
Installer the choice to select "bundles." In Expert Mode you have  
quite a few chances to optimise your installation, selecting/ 
deselecting babel languages, MAP files, formats ...

> I guess this would be easiest; to get otftex_install to properly  
> sort the files it generates and hopefully generate some MAP-files.

Right. I have in csh:

set myTFMdir = `kpsepath tfm | tr ':' '\012' | egrep -v '^(\.|\!|/ 
var)' | sed -e 's://:/:'`
set TFMdir   = ${myTFMdir}${Fam}/${Font}
set AFMdir   = `echo $TFMdir   | sed -e s:tfm:afm:`
set VFdir    = `echo $TFMdir   | sed -e s:tfm:vf:`
set T1dir    = `echo $TFMdir   | sed -e s:tfm:type1:`
set ENCdir   = `echo $myTFMdir | sed -e s:tfm:enc/fontinst/${Fam}:`
set MAPdir   = `echo $myTFMdir | sed -e s:tfm:map/fontinst/updmap:`
set STYdir   = `echo $myTFMdir | sed -e s:fonts/tfm:tex/latex/${Fam}:`

{ENC|MAP|STY}dir are user local because the files are needed for test  
files and proof sheets. Maybe they work without installing them by  
creating environment variables in the shell script ...

>
> Or as a manual solution:
> Can somebody give me a hint, what the MAP-file should look like and  
> where to put it?

ptmr8r  Times-Roman      <8r.enc              "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmri8r Times-Italic     <8r.enc              "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmro8r Times-Roman      <8r.enc              ".167 SlantFont  
TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"
ptmb8r  Times-Bold       <8r.enc              "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmbi8r Times-BoldItalic <8r.enc              "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmbo8r Times-Bold       <8r.enc              ".167 SlantFont  
TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"

or to "download" the PS fonts, needed to apply microtypographic font  
expansion or compression:

ptmr8r  Times-Roman      <8r.enc <ptmr8a.pfb  "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmri8r Times-Italic     <8r.enc <ptmri8a.pfb "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmro8r Times-Roman      <8r.enc <ptmr8a.pfb  ".167 SlantFont  
TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"
ptmb8r  Times-Bold       <8r.enc <ptmb8a.pfb  "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmbi8r Times-BoldItalic <8r.enc <ptmbi8a.pfb "TeXBase1Encoding  
ReEncodeFont"
ptmbo8r Times-Bold       <8r.enc <ptmb8a.pfb  ".167 SlantFont  
TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont"

(In case of TrueType fonts the entries look a bit different due to MS  
"traditional" font encodings.)

>
> Here I would guess at something like: /usr/local/teTex/share/ 
> texmf.local/dvips/config/
> with additional entries into the coniguration files for dvips/xdvi  
> and pdftex.

No. Updmap generates "subversions" for all three flavours. Put your  
own MAP files into /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ 
otftex or /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/otftex/updmap  
-- so as to understand at once what the source of the MAP file  
fragments is (these MAP files for single fonts or even whole font  
families are *fragments* only because the system's real MAP files  
are /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ 
psfonts.map, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/ 
updmap/pdftex.map, /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ 
dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map, which are composed of many such fragments).

These are good sources for understanding or learning, too:

> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
> List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/

texdoc fontinst
texdoc fontinstallationguide

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