rcpt@tuegate.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) (03/01/90)
Unix MetaFont Tools (version 1.0)
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UMFT is a collection of tools, partly witten in C, partly
Bourne shell scripts, that should help in maintaining an
up-to-date collection of TeX fonts for different printers
and/or different machines.
In stead of making one program that does all steps to build
TeXfonts, I have provided a set of tools that does just a
small part of the job. Generating fonts is done in four
steps:
1) Generating a shell script that builds the fonts
(generatefonts),
2) execution of this script to make the fonts,
3) generating a shell script to install the fonts
(installfonts)
4) execution of this script to do the real work.
Steps 1 and 2, 3 and 4 can be combined on a UNIX system,
using pipes.
Special care is given to the maintaining and installing a
consistent set of fonts. Checkfonts detects any font for
which the checksum of the tfm-file and the pk-file differs.
Installfonts only installs a pk-font if the checksum of this
font equals the checksum of the existing tfm-file.
Some tools are provided to facilitate the writing of the
shell script makefont (mag, locate, prvalue). Other to help
in merging two font collections (fontsteps), check METAFONT
versions (checkmode).
Most of the tools are file driven. Subsets are provided or
can be generated from existing fonts, using fontsteps. This
approach should help in providing better support for which
fonts are needed wherefore. Information regarding TeX
output devices is kept in file printers. Most commands
allow specification of a `printer' defined in this file
instead of a long list of command line options.
To generate fonts for TeX you will need the complete
collection of METAFONT sources on some place. These sources
are provided on the UNIX TeX distribution tape.
These tools does not provide any help for the old fashioned
pxl fonts, and will not do. Nowadays we prefer pk-files
because they are compact and most drivers and previewers
can, and should, handle them.
Availability
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The UMFT tools are available via `anonymous ftp' from
sol.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]:
size(bytes) name
1232 pub/TEX/fonts/umft.readme
68595 pub/TEX/fonts/umft.tar.Z
Eindhoven, 1 march 1990
Piet
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I've placed a copy of of these tools on foobar.colorado.edu and they're available via anonymous ftp.