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Name         top

       afmtodit - adapt Adobe Font Metrics files for groff PostScript
       and PDF output

Synopsis         top

       afmtodit [-ckmnsx] [-a slant] [-d device-description-file]
                [-e encoding-file] [-f internal-name] [-i italic-
                correction-factor] [-o output-file] [-w space-width]
                afm-file map-file font-description-file

       afmtodit --help

       afmtodit -v
       afmtodit --version

Description         top

       afmtodit adapts an Adobe Font Metric file, afm-file, for use with
       the ps and pdf output devices of troff(1).  map-file associates a
       groff ordinary or special character name with a PostScript glyph
       name.  Output is written in groff_font(5) format to font-
       description-file, a file named for the intended groff font name
       (but see the -o option).

       map-file should contain a sequence of lines of the form
              ps-glyph groff-char
       where ps-glyph is the PostScript glyph name and groff-char is a
       groff ordinary (if of unit length) or special (if longer)
       character identifier.  The same ps-glyph can occur multiple times
       in the file; each groff-char must occur at most once.  Lines
       starting with “#” and blank lines are ignored.  If the file isn't
       found in the current directory, it is sought in the
       devps/generate subdirectory of the default font directory.

       If a PostScript glyph is not mentioned in map-file, and a groff
       character name can't be deduced using the Adobe Glyph List (AGL,
       built into afmtodit), then afmtodit puts the PostScript glyph
       into the groff font description file as an unnamed glyph which
       can only be accessed by the “\N” escape sequence in a roff
       document.  In particular, this is true for glyph variants named
       in the form “foo.bar”; all glyph names containing one or more
       periods are mapped to unnamed entities.  Unless -e is specified,
       the encoding defined in the AFM file (i.e., entries with non-
       negative codes) is used.  Refer to section “Using Symbols” in
       Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff, the groff Texinfo manual,
       or groff_char(7), which describe how groff character identifiers
       are constructed.

       Glyphs not encoded in the AFM file (i.e., entries indexed as
       “-1”) are still available in groff; they get glyph index values
       greater than 255 (or greater than the biggest code used in the
       AFM file in the unlikely case that it is greater than 255) in the
       groff font description file.  Unencoded glyph indices don't have
       a specific order; it is best to access them only via special
       character identifiers.

       If the font file proper (not just its metrics) is available,
       listing it in the files /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/
       download and /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf/download
       enables it to be embedded in the output produced by grops(1) and
       gropdf(1), respectively.

       If the -i option is used, afmtodit automatically generates an
       italic correction, a left italic correction, and a subscript
       correction for each glyph (the significance of these is explained
       in groff_font(5)); they can be specified for individual glyphs by
       adding to the afm-file lines of the form:
              italicCorrection ps-glyph n
              leftItalicCorrection ps-glyph n
              subscriptCorrection ps-glyph n
       where ps-glyph is the PostScript glyph name, and n is the desired
       value of the corresponding parameter in thousandths of an em.
       Such parameters are normally needed only for italic (or oblique)
       fonts.

       The -s option should be given if the font is “special”, meaning
       that groff should search it whenever a glyph is not found in the
       current font.  In that case, font-description-file should be
       listed as an argument to the fonts directive in the output
       device's DESC file; if it is not special, there is no need to do
       so, since troff(1) will automatically mount it when it is first
       used.

Options         top

       --help displays a usage message, while -v and --version show
       version information; all exit afterward.

       -a slant
              Use slant as the slant (“angle”) parameter in the font
              description file; this is used by groff in the positioning
              of accents.  By default afmtodit uses the negative of the
              ItalicAngle 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 an italic font places
              accents over base glyphs too far to the right, use -a to
              give it a smaller slant.

       -c     Include comments in the font description file identifying
              the PostScript font.

       -d device-description-file
              The device description file is desc-file rather than the
              default DESC.  If not found in the current directory, the
              devps subdirectory of the default font directory is
              searched (this is true for both the default device
              description file and a file given with option -d).

       -e encoding-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).  If not found in the current
              directory, the devps subdirectory of the default font
              directory is searched.

       -f internal-name
              The internal name of the groff font is set to name.

       -i italic-correction-factor
              Generate an italic correction for each glyph so that its
              width plus its italic correction is equal to italic-
              correction-factor thousandths of an em plus the amount by
              which the right edge of the glyph's bounding box is to the
              right of its 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 glyph
              equal to italic-correction-factor thousandths of an em
              plus the amount by which the left edge of the glyph's
              bounding box is to the left of its origin.  The left
              italic correction may be negative unless option -m is
              given.

              This option is normally needed only with italic (or
              oblique) fonts.  The font description files distributed
              with groff were created using an option of -i50 for italic
              fonts.

       -o output-file
              Write to output-file instead of font-description-file.

       -k     Omit any kerning data from the groff font; use only for
              monospaced (constant-width) fonts.

       -m     Prevent negative left italic correction values.  Font
              description files for roman styles distributed with groff
              were created with “-i0 -m” to improve spacing with eqn(1).

       -n     Don't output a ligatures command for this font; use with
              monospaced (constant-width) fonts.

       -s     Add the special directive to the font description file.

       -w space-width
              Use space-width as the with of inter-word spaces.

       -x     Don't use the built-in Adobe Glyph List.

Files         top

       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/DESC
              describes the ps output device.

       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/F
              describes the font known as F on device ps.

       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/download
              lists fonts available for embedding within the PostScript
              document (or download to the device).

       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/generate/dingbats.map
       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/generate/
       dingbats-reversed.map
       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/generate/
       slanted-symbol.map
       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/generate/symbol.map
       /usr/local/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devps/generate/text.map
              map names in the Adobe Glyph List to groff special
              character identifiers for Zapf Dingbats (ZD), reversed
              Zapf Dingbats (ZDR), slanted symbol (SS), symbol (S), and
              text fonts, respectively.  These map-files are used to
              produce the font description files provided with groff for
              the grops output driver.

Diagnostics         top

       AGL name 'x' already mapped to groff name 'y'; ignoring AGL name
       'uniXXXX'
              You can disregard these if they're in the form shown,
              where the ignored AGL name contains four hexadecimal
              digits XXXX.  The Adobe Glyph List (AGL) has its own names
              for glyphs; they are often different from groff's special
              character names.  afmtodit is constructing a mapping from
              groff special character names to AGL names; this can be a
              one-to-one or many-to-one mapping, but one-to-many will
              not work, so afmtodit discards the excess mappings.  For
              example, if x is *D, y is Delta, and XXXX is 0394,
              afmtodit is telling you that the groff font description
              that it is writing cannot map the groff special character
              \[*D] to AGL glyphs Delta and uni0394 at the same time.

              If you get a message like this but are unhappy with which
              mapping is ignored, a remedy is to craft an alternative
              map-file and re-run afmtodit using it.

See also         top

       Groff: The GNU Implementation of troff, by Trent A. Fisher and
       Werner Lemberg, is the primary groff manual.  Section “Using
       Symbols” may be of particular note.  You can browse it
       interactively with “info '(groff)Using Symbols'”.

       groff(1), gropdf(1), grops(1), groff_font(5)

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groff 1.23.0.453-330f9-dirty 1 November 2023                 afmtodit(1)