Re: Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!

[Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>]

Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> 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.

Steffen