From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19340 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Going crazy with font conversion (macron)! Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:32:11 +0000 Message-ID: <20050324153211.22859@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111678466 31438 80.91.229.2 (24 Mar 2005 15:34:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 24 16:34:25 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEULe-0006ue-Ti for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:34:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0F6127DE; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:34:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30927-01; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:34:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C24127C7; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:32:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E18E127C7 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:32:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30747-03 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:32:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DFB127BB for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:32:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.103] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2OFWC2f003602; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:32:13 GMT Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" , "Steffen Wolfrum" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.1 build 4340 English X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19340 Steffen Wolfrum said this at Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:16:22 +0100: >Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> > BTW: >> > >> > Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or >> > another human readable format and back again? >> >> There exist the Knuthian programs tftopl (for tfm only) and >> vftovp (for virtual fonts) that convert to 'property list' >> format. The format is an ASCCI representation, but Whether or >> not you think this is human readable depends on what kind of >> human you are ;-) >> >> Anyway, the commands should be part of your installation already. >> >> Taco > > >The idea was to translate TFM (and VF?) in a readable format, and >back again, in order to be able of making little kerning adjustments: >When the font is already Tex-installed and in use, but finally there >is one kerning pair that doesn't look good enough, I wanted to be >able to make this particular adjustment in the kerning table without >starting from AFM and going the whole conversion and installation way >again. That's the idea behind the Property List format. pltotf (and vptovf) will go in the other direction. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-