[comp.text.tex] UMFT: Unix MetaFont Tools v1.0

rcpt@tuegate.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) (03/01/90)

	  Unix MetaFont Tools (version 1.0)
	  =================================

	  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
	  ============

	  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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grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (03/02/90)

I've placed a copy of of these tools on foobar.colorado.edu and
they're available via anonymous ftp.