Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?

Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?

[Steffen Wolfrum]

William Adams <wadams@atlis.com> wrote:

>  Steffen asked about Adobe Garamond Swash Italic.
>
>  Yeah, it's a non-standard encoding. You can either manually add it to a
>  .vf, or follow the instructions in Alan Hoenig's wonderful book, _TeX
>  Unbound_
>
>  I've samples of it up on my web site at
>  http://members.aol.com/willadams - check the portfolio section, and if
>  you go to the fonts page you should be able to follow the links to a
>  .vf which may or may not work for you.
>
>  William


Thanks William,

but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't 
find any link related to .vf.

Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly?


Thanks again

Steffen

Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?

[William Adams]

Steffen said:
> but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't 
> find any link related to .vf.
>
> Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly?

Sorry, that should've been ``.vpl''

It also wasn't where I'd said it would be---it was on my old Portfolio 
page,

http://members.aol.com/willadams/prtflio.htm

Here're links to the two files:
http://members.aol.com/willadams/tex/padr9alt.vp
http://members.aol.com/willadams/tex/padi9alt.vp

and here's the map file.

You'll still need to process the (renamed) .afms w/ FontInst (but 
you've done that, right?) and you should check to see if my font 
versions match yours---probably best just to use the above as a 
template.

The .vpl file format is documented in Dr. Knuth's ``Virtual Fonts: More 
fun for grand wizards'' file (which is re-published in his _Digital 
Typography_). Using Alan Hoenig's book will probably help a lot 
though---well worth buying, or get it from a library.

Meanwhile, Jan had said:
> Oh yes. I started this journey some days ago and have not solved it 
> yet. But I
> did not even get to the Swash font, since my fondu-generated pfb are 
> rejected by
> dvips (as I had complained on this list).

I would suggest that you purchase a ``sidegrade'' to the PC version, 
that way you know you'll get files which will work.

Also, Philipp Lehman's font installation guide is very good, and I 
think has been updated to handle swash fonts, it's listed at 
http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html

William

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