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NAME

       afmtodit - create font files for use with groff -Tps

SYNOPSIS

       afmtodit [ -ckmnsvx ] [ -a n ] [ -d desc_file ] [ -e enc_file ]
                [ -f internal_name ] [ -i n ] 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 and grops.  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.

       If there is a downloadable font file for the font, it may be listed  in
       the file /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/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.

       -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/1.20.1/font/devps/DESC
              Device description file.

       /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/F
              Font description file for font F.

       /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/download
              List of downloadable fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/text.enc
              Encoding used for text fonts.

       /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/font/devps/generate/textmap
              Standard mapping.

SEE ALSO

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

       The groff info file, section ‘Using Symbols’.