Re: [Groff] [GROFF] OpenType fonts

[Denis M. Wilson]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:30:38 -0400
Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience of installing OpenType fonts for use
> > with groff?
> 
> This works for me:
> 
> - use fontforge to convert the .otf to .t42 and .pfa (which
>   generates an .afm)
> - use the .afm, with afmtodit, to generate a groff font
> - move the .t42 and groff font to your groff font dir (I use
>   site-font/devps so my fonts survive across groff installations)
> - add the font to your 'download' file
> 

Peter, thanks for that. It works fine, although laborious.

There are still problems, such as the smallcaps names are a.sc etc,
and ligatures are given unicode names so afmtodit does not recognise
them.

By doing the translation I may be violating the license.

Denis


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