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AFMTODIT(1)					      AFMTODIT(1)

NAME
       afmtodit - create font files for use with groff -Tps

SYNOPSIS
       afmtodit	 [ -ns ] [ -ddesc_file ] [ -eenc_file ] [ -in ] [
       -an ] afm_file map_file font

DESCRIPTION
       afmtodit creates a font file for use with groff and grops.
       afmtodit	 is written in perl; you must have perl version 3
       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.   font  is	 the  groff  name  of  the  font.   If	a
       PostScript character is in the encoding to be used for the
       font but is not mentioned in map_file then  afmtodit  will
       put  it	in  the	 groff font file as an unnamed character,
       which can be accessed by the \N escape sequence in  troff.
       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_font/devps/down-
       load; see grops(1).

       If the -i option is used, afmtodit will automatically gen-
       erate 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
       -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

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	      to add the special command to the font file.

       -ddesc_file
	      The device description  file  is	desc_file  rather
	      than the default DESC.

       -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).

       -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 ItalicAn-
	      gle 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.

       -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 is to the right of the charac-
	      ter'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 ori-
	      gin.  The left italic correction may be negative.

	      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.

FILES
       /usr/share/groff_font/devps/DESC
	      Device description file.

       /usr/share/groff_font/devps/F
	      Font description file for font F.

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       /usr/share/groff_font/devps/download
	      List of downloadable fonts.

       /usr/share/groff_font/devps/text.enc
	      Encoding used for text fonts.

       /usr/share/groff_font/devps/generate/textmap
	      Standard mapping.

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

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