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PROGRAM:

NAME

otftotfm - create TeX font metrics from OpenType fonts

SYNOPSIS

otftotfm [-a] [options] fontfile [texname]

DESCRIPTION

Otftotfm creates the font metric and encoding files required to use an OpenType font with
TeX. You supply an OpenType ".otf" or ".ttf" font file, a base ".enc" encoding, and a TeX
name "texname" for the resulting font, and say which OpenType features should be turned
on. Then otftotfm generates and installs the corresponding TeX-related metric files
(".tfm" TeX font metrics, ".vf" virtual fonts, and ".enc" encoding files). It works on
both PostScript-flavored and TrueType-flavored OpenType fonts, although TrueType-flavor
support will only work easily with pdftex.

The easiest way to use otftotfm is with the -a option; see Automatic Mode below. Without
-a, otftotfm writes all its output files to the current directory.

After running "otftotfm fontfile texname" and installing the results (manually or with
-a), you can use the OpenType font in plain TeX with a command like this:

\font\myfont=texname at 10pt
{\myfont This text uses the OpenType font.}

LaTeX users will generally make a ".fd" input file so that commands like
"\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{TeXName}" work correctly. See the EXAMPLE section for more;
check the DIAGNOSTICS and FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS sections if you have trouble.

OpenType Features
OpenType fonts support optional features that change their appearance. Use the -f option
to turn on selected features. For example, "-fsmcp" replaces lower-case letters with the
corresponding small capitals, in fonts that support this.

You'll generally provide at least the "-fkern" and "-fliga" options, which activate pair
kerns and f-ligatures. Other interesting features include "-fcpsp", for capital spacing;
"-fdlig", for optional ligatures; "-flnum", "-fonum", "-fpnum", and "-ftnum", to control
digit glyphs; "-fsmcp", for small capitals; "-fswsh", for swash variants; and "-fcswh",
for contextual swash. See the FEATURE DIRECTORY section below for more. The otfinfo(1)
program will report which features a font supports; run "otfinfo -f fontfile".

Feature options can also apply a feature to a subset of characters in the font. For
example, "--lf smcp" only replaces letters with small capitals, whereas "-fsmcp" might
additionally replace digits and punctuation marks with small-capital versions.

Automatic Mode
Automatic mode, triggered by the -a/--automatic option, installs font metrics and encoding
files where TeX can find them, and additionally installs a Type 1 font and mapping for
dvips(1). This requires a TeX installation that follows the TeX Directory Structure
standard (http://www.tug.org/tds/), such as most Unix TeX installations.

Automatic mode should run seamlessly out of the box. Otftotfm will install metrics files,
encodings, map files, and Type 1 fonts into $HOME/.texmf-var or any other writable TEXMF
directory, and run updmap(1) to update the global lists of installed fonts. (On older
teTeX installations, you may first need to copy the system's updmap.cfg file to
$HOME/texmf/web2c and run mktexlsr(1). On newer TeXLive installations, you may need to
set the TEXMFVAR environment variable.) You can then run "otftotfm -a fontfile texname"
and immediately refer to the font in TeX using the texname you supplied. Again, you will
have to write ".fd" files and/or typescripts to make the font conveniently accessible from
LaTeX or ConTeXt. See the DIAGNOSTICS section if you have problems with these
instructions.

In automatic mode, otftotfm searches your $TEXMFVAR or $TEXMF path for a writable
directory, then installs files under that directory tree as follows:

File type Directory Filename
TFM TEXMF/fonts/tfm/vendor/typeface/ texname[--base].tfm
VF TEXMF/fonts/vf/vendor/typeface/ texname.vf
PL TEXMF/fonts/pl/vendor/typeface/ texname[--base].pl
VPL TEXMF/fonts/vpl/vendor/typeface/ texname.vpl
encoding TEXMF/fonts/enc/dvips/vendor/ a_signature.enc
or TEXMF/dvips/vendor/
font map TEXMF/fonts/map/dvips/vendor/ vendor.map
or TEXMF/dvips/vendor/

"TEXMF" stands for the writable TEXMF directory. Texname is the font name supplied as
otftotfm's second argument. The vendor and typeface strings are required by TDS; they
default to "lcdftools" and the font's family name, respectively, but see the --vendor and
--typeface options. Signature is an opaque 6-character encoding signature.

Otftotfm also installs a font file suitable for printing. PostScript-flavored OpenType
fonts are translated to Type 1 format and installed as PFB fonts. TrueType-flavored fonts
are normally installed as is, since pdftex and pdflatex can read TrueType directly; but if
you provide the --type42 option, otftotfm will translate TrueType fonts to Type 42 format,
which dvips understands. Otftotfm does not overwrite existing font files.

The installation paths are as follows, where PSname is the font's PostScript name.

PFB TEXMF/fonts/type1/vendor/typeface/ PSname.pfb
TrueType TEXMF/fonts/truetype/vendor/typeface/ fontfile
Type 42 TEXMF/fonts/type42/vendor/typeface/ PSname.t42

You can override these directories with environment variables and options as follows.
Options take precedence over environment variables.

File type Environment variable Option
TFM TFMDESTDIR --tfm-directory
VF VFDESTDIR --vf-directory
PL PLDESTDIR --pl-directory
VPL VPLDESTDIR --vpl-directory
encoding ENCODINGDESTDIR --encoding-directory
PFB T1DESTDIR --type1-directory
TrueType TRUETYPEDESTDIR --truetype-directory
Type 42 T42DESTDIR --type42-directory
font map - --map-file

Otftotfm will update the TEXMF/ls-R file when installing files under TEXMF. It will also
run the updmap(1) program after changing a map file, unless the --no-updmap option was
supplied. However, if an executable file called TEXMF/dvips/updmap exists, this file is
executed (from the TEXMF/dvips directory) rather than the global updmap. This is so you
can write a fast, customized version of updmap if desired.

EXAMPLE

This section uses MinionPro to show one way to install OpenType fonts for LaTeX. We begin
with six fonts: "MinionPro-Regular.otf", "MinionPro-It.otf", "MinionPro-Semibold.otf",
"MinionPro-SemiboldIt.otf", "MinionPro-Bold.otf", and "MinionPro-BoldIt.otf".

Our first task is to decide how to encode the fonts. The "encoding scheme" is used by TeX
to decide how to typeset accents and symbols like "$". The "LY1" encoding scheme has
reasonable accent support and is a good choice for many OpenType fonts. LY1 corresponds
to the "texnansx.enc" encoding file, so we will supply otftotfm with the "-e texnansx"
option.

Expert note: Strictly speaking, LY1 corresponds to the "texnansi.enc" encoding
file. Since the "texnansx.enc" version omits duplicate characters, it has more
room for font-specific glyphs and is generally a better choice; but if you plan to
type characters like "ae" directly into your editor, rather than using TeX commands
like \ae, you should use "texnansi.enc".

Next, we decide on a naming scheme for the font metric files. Let's use the OpenType font
names as a base. (There's generally no need to follow the six-character "Karl Berry"
naming scheme.) Just in case we come back later and add a different encoding scheme,
we'll prepend "LY1--" to each name.

We're now ready to run otftotfm for the first set of fonts. Note the "-fkern -fliga"
options, which access pair kerns and the default "f" ligatures.

otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-Regular.otf
-fkern -fliga LY1--MinionPro-Regular
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-It.otf
-fkern -fliga LY1--MinionPro-It
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-Semibold.otf
-fkern -fliga LY1--MinionPro-Semibold
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-SemiboldIt.otf
-fkern -fliga LY1--MinionPro-SemiboldIt
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-Bold.otf
-fkern -fliga LY1--MinionPro-Bold
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-BoldIt.otf
-fkern -fliga LY1--MinionPro-BoldIt

The small-caps fonts are generated with an additional "-fsmcp" option. We append
"--fsmcp" to the font metric names as well, differentiating them from the regular fonts.
Although MinionPro's italic fonts support small-caps, the LaTeX font selection scheme
can't access them easily, so we've left them off.

otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-Regular.otf
-fkern -fliga -fsmcp LY1--MinionPro-Regular--fsmcp
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-Semibold.otf
-fkern -fliga -fsmcp LY1--MinionPro-Semibold--fsmcp
otftotfm -a -e texnansx MinionPro-Bold.otf
-fkern -fliga -fsmcp LY1--MinionPro-Bold--fsmcp

To get old-style numerals, just add the "-fonum" option to each invocation -- and, to
reduce confusion, append "--fonum" to the font metric names.

At this point, all our font metric files are installed, and it's finally time to create
the ".fd" file. (The ".fd" format is documented in The LaTeX Companion.) Let's call the
LaTeX font family "MinionPro". Then the ".fd" file is "LY1MinionPro.fd", and it contains:

\DeclareFontFamily{LY1}{MinionPro}{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{m}{n}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-Regular }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{m}{it}{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-It }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{m}{sc}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-Regular--fsmcp }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{sb}{n}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-Semibold }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{sb}{it}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-SemiboldIt }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{sb}{sc}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-Semibold--fsmcp }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{b}{n}{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-Bold }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{b}{it}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-BoldIt }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{b}{sc}%
{ <-> LY1--MinionPro-Bold--fsmcp }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{bx}{n}%
{ <-> ssub * MinionPro/b/n }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{bx}{it}%
{ <-> ssub * MinionPro/b/it }{}
\DeclareFontShape{LY1}{MinionPro}{bx}{sc}%
{ <-> ssub * MinionPro/b/sc }{}

We're now ready to use MinionPro in LaTeX, with lines like this in the document preamble:

\usepackage[LY1]{fontenc}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{MinionPro}
\renewcommand{\bfdefault}{b}

Of course, we're free at any time to add more MinionPro variants with otftotfm; they'll
become accessible to LaTeX as soon as we edit the "MinionPro.fd" file.

OPTIONS

With long options, you need type only as many characters as will make the option unique.

Font Feature and Transformation Options
-s script[.lang], --script=script[.lang]
Apply features suitable to the script system script and language system lang.
Scripts and language systems are two-to-four-letter names assigned by Microsoft and
Adobe. Examples include "latn" (Latin script), "grek" (Greek script), and "yi.YIC"
(Yi script with classic characters). If lang is not specified, otftotfm will use the
default language system for that script. You can give this option multiple times.
Run "otfinfo -s font" to see the list of scripts and languages a font supports.
Defaults to "latn".

-f feature, --feature=feature
Activate the feature named feature. Features are four-letter names assigned by
Microsoft and Adobe; they are meant to correspond to font behaviors, such as kerning
or small-capitals. Examples include "liga" (default ligatures), "dlig"
(discretionary ligatures), "kern" (kerning), and "c2sc" (replacing capitals with
small capitals). Give this option multiple times to apply multiple features. Run
"otfinfo -f [--script option] font" to see the list of features a font supports for a
specified script. Defaults to any features required by the selected scripts.

--lf feature, --letter-feature=feature
Activate the feature named feature, but only for letters. For instance, the "-f
smcp" option will apply the small-caps feature to all characters in the encoding;
this may result in changes to punctuation and numbers as well as letters. The "--lf
smcp" option will apply the small-caps feature only to letters, meaning characters
with the "Letter" Unicode property.

--subs-filter pattern
--include-subs pattern
--exclude-subs pattern
--clear-subs
Limit the characters that otftotfm will substitute. Substitution is allowed on an
input character if it matches at least one of the --include patterns, and none of the
--exclude patterns. Each pattern applies to all following features, except that the
--clear option clears any accumulated patterns. The --subs-filter pattern option
acts like --clear-subs followed by --include-subs pattern. For pattern syntax, see
GLYPH PATTERNS, below.

In the command line below, the '<Number>' pattern will force the "onum" feature to
substitute only numbers (and not, for example, punctuation). The "salt" feature can
still substitute any character.
otftotfm -fsalt --include-subs="<Number>" -fonum ...

-E fac, --extend=fac
Widen, or extend, the font by a factor of fac. Like afm2tfm(1)'s -e option.

-S amt, --slant=amt
Oblique, or slant, the font by amt. Like afm2tfm(1)'s -s option.

-L amt, --letterspacing=amt
Letterspace each character by amt units, where 1000 units equals one em. The width
of each character increases by amt, with half the space distributed to each
sidebearing. Boundary-character kerns are added to maintain alignment at the ends of
lines.

--math-spacing[=skewchar]
Ignore the font's claimed character widths, deriving horizontal metrics from bounding
boxes instead. This results in similar spacing as the Computer Modern Math Italic
font, with increased sidebearings for letters like f and j.

If you provide skewchar, a number between 0 and 255 or a single character, then
otftotfm adds heuristically-derived kerns to the font that may improve accent
positions in math mode. To get the benefits, you must tell TeX about the skewchar
with a command like "\skewchar\font=skewchar".

-k N, --min-kern=N
Only output kerning pairs whose absolute value is N or larger. Larger minimum kerns
make kerning less precise, but shrink the output TFM file. The default minimum kern
is 2.0, or 0.002 em.

--space-factor=fac
Scale the width of the inter-word space by a factor of fac.

--design-size=size
Set the output font's design size to size, a value in TeX points. This value is
mostly just documentation, since LaTeX essentially ignores fonts' design sizes, but
plain TeX may occasionally use the design size to decide how large a font should be.
(Loading a font in TeX "at" a particular size effectively ignores the design size;
loading a font plain or "scaled" by a given factor uses the design size.) The
default is taken from the input font's optical size feature, or 10pt if it has no
such feature.

--fixed-width
Set the font to fixed-width (its space character will have no stretch or shrink).
Normally you won't need this option; the font will tell otftotfm whether it is fixed
width. The opposite of --fixed-width is --proportional-width.

--italic-angle=angle
Set the output font's default italic angle to angle, a number of degrees. This value
is used by TeX to position accents. Normally you won't need this option; the font
will tell otftotfm its italic angle.

--x-height=val
Set the output font's x-height to val. This value is used by TeX to position
accents. Normally you won't need this option. Val may be a number expressed in font
units; ‘x’, which uses the height of the font's lowercase x; or ‘font’, which uses
the font's declared x-height metric.

Encoding Options
-e encoding, --encoding=encoding
Select the output metrics's base dvips(1) encoding. Otftotfm will search for
encoding[.enc] the same way that dvips would, so you may not need to give a full
pathname. Say -e - to start with the font's default encoding. See ENCODINGS, below,
for more information.

--boundary-char=char
Set the font's boundary character to char, which should either be a single non-digit
character, or a number between -1 and 255. The default is taken from the encoding.

--altselector-char=char
Set the font's alternate selector character to char, which should either be a single
non-digit character, or a number between -1 and 255. Alternate selectors let TeX
authors explicitly choose between versions of a character. For instance, the
'--altselector-char="*"' option turns the "*" character into a special switch that
cycles between alternates. For instance, the TeX input "A" would produce the normal
version of the "A" Unicode character, "A*" would produce the first alternate, "A**"
would produce the second alternate, and so forth. Furthermore, "s*t" will activate
any discretionary "s_t" ligature in the font.

The --altselector-char mechanism uses the features specified by --altselector-feature
options.

The alternate-selector character may also be specified in the encoding; see
ENCODINGS, below. See Sivan Toledo's article cited in the SEE ALSO section for more
information.

--altselector-feature=feature
Activate the feature named feature for the --altselector-char mechanism. Give this
option multiple times to activate multiple features. This option activates features
only for use with --altselector-char; use the --feature option to activate features
globally. Defaults to the salt and dlig features.

--alternates-filter=pattern
--include-alternates=pattern
--exclude-alternates=pattern
--clear-alternates
Limit the alternate characters that otftotfm will select. An alternate is used if it
matches at least one of the --include patterns, and none of the --exclude patterns.
Each pattern applies to all following features, except that the --clear option clears
any accumulated patterns. The --alternates-filter pattern option acts like
--clear-alternates followed by --include-alternates pattern. For pattern syntax, see
GLYPH PATTERNS, below.

OpenType fonts can have many alternates per character, most of which aren't
interesting. For example, the character "a" in WarnockPro-Regular has five
alternates, "ordfeminine", "Asmall", "asuperior", "a.end", and "orn.013". The
--altselector-char option lets you cycle through these alternates, but it's better to
leave out the ones you don't want, to avoid overfull encodings. Thus, if you were
only interested in ".end" variants, you might supply an
'--include-alternates="*.end"' option.

In the command line below, the '*.end' pattern will apply to "aalt" alternates, but
not to "salt" alternates.
otftotfm -fsalt --include-alternates="*.end" -faalt ...

--ligkern=command
Add a LIGKERN command to the encoding. For example, '--ligkern "T {L} h"' suppresses
any T_h ligature in the font. You can supply multiple --ligkern options. See
ENCODINGS, below.

--position=command
Add a POSITION command to the encoding. For example, '--position "T 10 0 20"' adds
ten units of space to either side of the "T" character. You can supply multiple
--position options. See ENCODINGS, below.

--unicoding=command
Add a UNICODING command to the encoding. For example, '--unicoding "pi1 =: uni03D6"'
tells otftotfm to encode "/pi1" as U+03D6 GREEK PI SYMBOL. You can supply multiple
--unicoding options. See ENCODINGS, below.

--no-encoding-commands
Ignore any LIGKERN and/or UNICODING commands in the encoding file.

--no-default-ligkern
Don't include otftotfm's default LIGKERN commands.

--coding-scheme=scheme
Add a CODINGSCHEME to the encoding. See ENCODINGS, below.

--warn-missing
Warn about encoded characters not supported by the font. See the WARNMISSING command
in ENCODINGS, below.

--literal-encoding=encoding
Select the dvips(1) encoding used for the font. No glyph substitutions will be
permitted, so the output encoding will equal the input encoding (and otftotfm will
not generate an output encoding).

--base-encodings=file
Experts only. Allow the output font to refer to existing "base" fonts. This can
greatly reduce the number of base fonts generated by otftotfm. Each line in the file
argument contains a TeX font name (as for --name) and a corresponding literal
encoding file (as for --literal-encoding); for example:
WarnoProReg--eka eka
WarnoProReg--exp1 exp1
The named fonts must have been created by prior runs of otftotfm on the same input
OpenType font, with the same --extend and --slant options as the current run. The
current output font will refer to glyphs from the named base fonts when possible. If
the base fonts cover all glyphs required by the output font, otftotfm won't generate
any new base fonts at all. The file can also refer to dotless-J fonts using the
following syntax:
WarnoProReg--lcdfj - dotlessj

Automatic Mode Options
-a, --automatic
Select automatic mode.

-v vendor, --vendor=vendor
Set the font vendor name, which is used to locate files within the TDS. Defaults to
"lcdftools".

In automatic mode, TeX and friends will generally find required font files
independently of the vendor you select.

--typeface=typeface
Set the font typeface name, which is used to locate files within the TDS. Defaults
to the current font's family name with unsuiable characters removed.

--no-type1
Do not use cfftot1(1) to create Type 1 fonts corresponding to the OpenType input
fonts.

--no-dotlessj
Do not use t1dotlessj(1) to create a special dotless-j font when the input font
doesn't have dotless-j.

--no-truetype
Do not install TrueType-flavored fonts.

--type42
Install TrueType-flavored fonts in translated Type 42 format.

--no-updmap
Do not run an updmap(1) program. This can be useful if you're installing a bunch of
fonts; it is much faster to run updmap once, at the end, than to run it once per
font.

Output Options
-n texname, --name=texname
Set the TeX name of the output font, which is used in font map files and, in
automatic mode, to generate the output filename. The default is derived from the
OpenType font's name and the features you selected.

-p, --pl
Output human-readable PL and VPL metrics, not binary TFM and VF metrics. Note:
Otftotfm's PL and VPL output files are legal, but the fontinst program may not accept
them (it has a picky parser). Make sure to supply a --coding-scheme; if that doesn't
help, run the TFM output through tftopl(1).

--no-virtual
Do not generate virtual fonts (VFs and VPLs). Otftotfm will warn if the selected
font features cannot be implemented without virtual fonts.

--no-encoding
Do not generate an encoding file.

--output-encoding[=file]
Only generate an encoding file; do not generate any other output. The encoding file
is written to file, or to standard output if no file argument is supplied.

--no-map
Do not generate a font map line for the font.

File Location Options
--tfm-directory=dir
--pl-directory=dir
--vf-directory=dir
--vpl-directory=dir
--encoding-directory=dir
--type1-directory=dir
--truetype-directory=dir
--type42-directory=dir
Set the directory used for various output types. Each directory may be set by an
environment variable, and defaults to a TDS directory in automatic mode, or to "."
otherwise. Environment variable names and default TDS locations are described in the
Automatic Mode section above.

--map-file=filename
Set file in which otftotfm will write a font map line for the font. The default is
the standard output in manual mode, and "TEXMF/fonts/map/dvips/vendor/vendor.map" (or
"TEXMF/dvips/vendor/vendor.map" on older installations) in automatic mode.

Miscellaneous Options
--glyphlist=file
Use file as a Adobe glyph list, which helps translate glyph names to Unicode code
points. Give multiple options to include multiple files. See ENCODINGS, below, for
more information.

-V, --verbose
Write progress messages to standard error.

--no-create
Do not create or modify any files. Instead, write messages about the program's
hypothetical progress to standard error.

--force
Generate all files, even if it looks like versions are already installed.

-q, --quiet
Do not generate any error messages.

--kpathsea-debug=flags
Set path searching debugging flags. See the Kpathsea manual for details.

-h, --help
Print usage information and exit.

--version
Print the version number and some short non-warranty information and exit.

ENCODINGS

Otftotfm interprets encoding files as Unicode. For example, say an input encoding has
"/dotlessi" at position 10. Otftotfm detects that position 10 should contain Unicode
character U+0131 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I, and uses the font's glyph for that
character (possibly modified by any active features). The selected glyph might not be
named "dotlessi"; only the Unicode value matters.

Otftotfm assigns Unicode values to glyph names using a table published by Adobe (SEE ALSO
has a reference), with extensions for TeX. For more fine-grained control, add UNICODING
commands to the input encoding file. These commands have the following format:
% UNICODING glyph =: choice1 [choice2 ...] ;
This tells otftotfm that the glyph named glyph translates into the first Unicode value in
the choice list that has a character in the font. Glyph and the choices are PostScript
glyph names; the initial "%" sign is required; and each UNICODING line can contain
multiple commands, separated by spaced semicolons. For example,
% UNICODING pi1 =: uni03D6 ;
encodes the character "/pi1" as U+03D6 GREEK PI SYMBOL, and
% UNICODING Delta =: uni0394 uni2206 ;
makes U+0394 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA preferred to U+2206 INCREMENT as an encoding for
"/Delta". You can also supply glyph names:
% UNICODING Delta =: Deltagreek Delta ;
A mapping with no Unicode values removes that glyph from the input encoding. For
instance, this erases any f-ligature characters from the encoding:
% UNICODING ff =: ; fi =: ; fl =: ; ffi =: ; ffl =: ;
The slots are available for otftfm's own use, for example for other characters required by
the font. (If the f-ligatures themselves are required by the font, for instance by a
'liga' feature, then they will be stored into their old slots when possible.) Map a glyph
to 'emptyslot' if you don't want otftotfm to use the slot. For example, this will leave
the 'ff' slot unused if the font has no 'ff' glyph:
% UNICODING ff =: ff emptyslot ;
(Note that most OpenType fonts provide a visible representation for unused encoding slots,
namely a box with an X inside.)

LIGKERN comments in the encoding can add ligatures and inhibit kerns, as in afm2tfm(1).
To add a ligature, say:
% LIGKERN glyph1 glyph2 =: result ;
The "=:" operator indicates a normal ligature, where both the input glyphs are removed and
replaced by result. To preserve the left-hand glyph, for an effect like "glyph1 glyph2 =:
glyph1 result", use "|=:" instead; to preserve the right-hand glyph, use "=:|". To remove
all kerns between two characters, say:
% LIGKERN glyph1 {} glyph2 ;
A "*" matches any character, so
% LIGKERN a {} * ;
removes all kerns with "a" as the left-hand character, and
% LIGKERN * {} * ;
removes all kerns.

Otftotfm also supports extended syntax for setting kern values and inhibiting ligatures.
To add an n-unit kern between two glyphs, say:
% LIGKERNX glyph1 {n} glyph2 ;
where n is an integer. This:
% LIGKERNX glyph1 {L} glyph2 ;
inhibits any ligature between glyph1 and glyph2. "{LK}" and "{KL}" inhibit both ligatures
and kerns.

You can set the --boundary-char and --altselector-char from an encoding file with commands
like this:
% LIGKERN || = boundarychar ;
% LIGKERNX ^^ = altselectorchar ;
As with UNICODING, each LIGKERN or LIGKERNX line can contain multiple commands, separated
by spaced semicolons.

Otftotfm has a default set of eight ligatures, namely:
space l =: lslash ; space L =: Lslash ;
question quoteleft =: questiondown ; exclam quoteleft =: exclamdown ;
hyphen hyphen =: endash ; endash hyphen =: emdash ;
quoteleft quoteleft =: quotedblleft ;
quoteright quoteright =: quotedblright
LIGKERN commands in the encoding file and --ligkern options can override these defaults,
or supply the --no-default-ligkern option to turn them off.

The POSITION command shifts a glyph within its bounding box. The syntax is
% POSITION glyph pdx pdy adx ;
This will add pdx units of space to glyph's left edge; raise it up by pdy units; and add
adx units to its width. For example, to add 10 units of space to either side of the "T"
glyph, supply
% POSITION T 10 0 20
To move the "degree" symbol up by 20 units, supply
% POSITION degree 0 20 0

The CODINGSCHEME command specifies the coding scheme for fonts using this encoding. This
is a string, less than 40 characters long and containing no parentheses, that classifies
the encoding for TeX's purposes. Sample coding schemes include "TEX TEXT", "TEX MATH
ITALIC", and "EXTENDED TEX FONT ENCODING - LATIN". For example:
% CODINGSCHEME EXTENDED TEX FONT ENCODING - LATIN
Most tools ignore the coding scheme; fontinst is an exception. Otftotfm uses the
encoding's PostScript name for the default coding scheme.

Finally, the WARNMISSING command makes any glyphs not supported by the input font appear
as black boxes. The dvips(1) processor will also print a warning when encountering these
glyphs. For example:
% WARNMISSING yes

The --unicoding, --ligkern, --position, --coding-scheme, and --warn-missing options add
UNICODING, LIGKERN/LIGKERNX, POSITION, CODINGSCHEME, and WARNMISSING commands to an
encoding, and can override commands in the encoding itself. Some common encoding files
have commands that are inappropriate for OpenType fonts; for example, "t1.enc" hard-codes
f-ligatures, which can cause problems with small-cap fonts. Supply the
--no-encoding-commands option to ignore all commands from the encoding file. Commands
from options like --ligkern are processed in any case.

New Glyphs
New glyphs, such as ligatures and contextual substitutions, are added to the encoding in
any empty spaces, using their original locations when possible. If the encoding doesn't
have enough space for all new glyphs, shorter ligatures composed of unaccented letters get
precedence.

Synthetic Glyphs
Otftotfm can synthesize some glyphs using virtual font manipulations, if a required glyph
is not available in the input font. Specifically, it will synthesize:

cwm TeX's compound word mark (a zero-width "strut" rule with height
equal to the font's x-height)
ascendercompwordmark "cwm" with height equal to the font's ascenders
capitalcompwordmark "cwm" with height equal to the font's capitals
visualspace A square cup used to represent spaces
dotlessj A dotless "j", synthesized with t1dotlessj(1)
dblbracketleft Kerned version of "[["
dblbracketright Kerned version of "]]"
bardbl The parallel symbol "||"
asteriskmath Vertically-centered "*"
ringfitted Ring accent centered on the width of "A"
twelveudash 2/3-em-wide dash
threequartersemdash 3/4-em-wide dash
centigrade "(degrees)C"
interrobang Combined "?!" symbol
interrobangdown Inverted interrobang
pertenthousand Per-ten-thousand sign (% with two extra 0s)
IJ "IJ" ligature
ij "ij" ligature
Germandbls "SS" (a capital sharp-s)
SSsmall Small-capital version of "SS"
FFsmall Small-capital version of "FF"
FIsmall Small-capital version of "FI"
FLsmall Small-capital version of "FL"
FFIsmall Small-capital version of "FFI"
FFLsmall Small-capital version of "FFL"

GLYPH PATTERNS

The --include-subs and --include-alternates options, and their --exclude and --*-filter
variants, accept the following types of pattern.

· Glyph names. Example: "Aacute". For PostScript-flavored fonts, use otfinfo(1)'s -g
option to see a font's glyph names, and "cfftot1 font.otf | t1testpage" to generate a
PostScript file showing each glyph.

· Glyph name patterns using the shell-style glob-matching rules: "*" matches any number
of characters, "?" matches any single character, and "[...]" matches any character in
a set. Example: "*.end".

· Unicode category properties in angle brackets. Examples: "<Letter>",
"<UppercaseLetter>", "<Lu>". The complete list of both short and long names: Letter/L,
UppercaseLetter/Lu, LowercaseLetter/Ll, TitlecaseLetter/Lt, ModifierLetter/Lm,
OtherLetter/Lo; Number/N, DecimalNumber/Nd, LetterNumber/Nl, OtherNumber/No;
Punctuation/P, ConnectorPunctuation/Pc, DashPunctuation/Pd, OpenPunctuation/Ps,
ClosePunctuation/Pe, InitialPunctuation/Pi, FinalPunctuation/Pf, OtherPunctuation/Po;
Symbol/S, MathSymbol/Sm, CurrencySymbol/Sc, ModifierSymbol/Sk, OtherSymbol/So; Mark/M,
SpacingMark/Mc, EnclosingMark/Me, NonspacingMark/Mn; Separator/Z, SpaceSeparator/Zs,
LineSeparator/Zl, ParagraphSeparator/Zp; Other/C, Surrogate/Cs, Format/Cf, Control/Cc,
PrivateUse/Co, Unassigned/Cn. Category values current as of Unicode 4.0.

· Unicode ranges. Example: "U+007f-U+008C".

The "!" prefix negates a pattern, and you can separate multiple patterns by spaces.

FEATURE DIRECTORY

This section lists features common to Western OpenType fonts and describes how otftotfm
handles them for common fonts. Please send the author mail if otftotfm does not handle a
feature you need, or you believe it handles some feature incorrectly.

aalt, Access All Alternates
Lets the user choose between all available alternate forms for a character. This
includes things like superscript and subscript variants, different styles (swash, for
example), and even ornaments. The --altselector-feature=aalt option can help an
--altselector-char provide useful access to alternates, but the aalt feature isn't
usually useful on its own. Try the salt and calt features instead.
c2sc, Small Capitals From Capitals
Replaces capital letters with small capitals: a sort of converse of the more
conventional smcp feature, which replaces lower-case letters with small capitals.
Supported.
calt, Contextual Alternates
Lets the user choose between context-appropriate swash forms for each character. For
example, given the word "DREW" in a cursive typeface, the "R E W" might be translated
to calmer forms than the initial "D". There may be more than one choice for a given
letter, in which case the user should be able to select among them. TeX can't
support complex contextual alternates, or alternate selection, but otftotfm supports
some fonts quite well. The input encoding should have lots of empty space for
variants, and it should specify a boundary character. See also cswh.
case, Case-Sensitive Forms
Shifts punctuation marks up to a position that works well with all-capital-letter
sequences. For example, the hyphen character, which generally centers vertically on
the x-height, is raised up to center vertically on a capital letter. Also replaces
text figures with lining figures, and accent marks with forms more appropriate for
capitals. Supported.
cpsp, Capital Spacing
Adds a bit of space on either side of each capital letter. Supported. (However, the
OpenType tag registry suggests that cpsp be on by default, but applying to all-caps
text only; TeX cannot easily implement that contextual intelligence.)
cswh, Contextual Swash
Lets the user choose between context-appropriate swash forms for each character. For
example, in the words "Ab AC", the first "A" might be translated to a swash form,
while the second might not. There may be more than one choice for a given letter, in
which case the user should be able to select among them. Otftotfm supports some
fonts quite well. The input encoding should have lots of empty space for swash
variants, and it should specify a boundary character. See also calt and swsh.
dlig, Discretionary Ligatures
Activates uncommon ligatures, such as "c_t", "s_p", and "s_t". Supported.
dnom, Denominators
Replaces digits and some punctuation marks with smaller forms sitting on the
baseline, intended for fraction denominators. Supported.
fina, Terminal Forms
Substitutes appropriate forms for letters occurring at the ends of words. This
feature doesn't select swash variants; it's intended for normal use, and the
specification recommends that it be on by default. Partially supported: TeX will
only treat spaces as the ends of words, where a correct implementation would probably
include punctuation too. See cswh for selecting swash variants active at the ends of
words.
frac, Fractions
Replaces simple sequences like "1/2" with nice-looking fractions. Supported, but
beware: many fonts will translate "11/32" into "1" + "1/3" + "2".
hist, Historical Forms
Replaces characters with historical variants. Usually, this means at least
translating regular "s" to long "s". Supported.
kern, Kerning
Adjusts the space between characters (pair kerning). Generally supported, and you
should probably turn it on. As a special case, "-fkern" can also read kerning
information from the "kern" table in conventional TrueType fonts.
liga, Standard Ligatures
Activates common ligatures, such as "f_f", "f_i", "f_f_j", and (in some Adobe fonts)
"T_h". Generally supported, and you should probably turn it on.
lnum, Lining Figures
Uses lining figures, the set of digits that are all about as high as capital letters.
Supported. Compare onum; see also pnum and tnum.
numr, Numerators
Replaces digits and some punctuation marks with smaller, raised forms intended for
fraction numerators. Supported, but not usually useful.
onum, Oldstyle Figures
Uses old-style figures, also known as text figures. This is the set of digits that
have ascenders and descenders like lower-case letters. Supported. Compare lnum; see
also pnum and tnum.
ordn, Ordinals
Designed for Spanish and French. Replaces ordinal numbers, such as "2.o", with forms
where the "o" is raised, and replaces the sequence "No" with an integrated glyph.
Supported.
ornm, Ornaments
Replaces some alphabetic characters in the font with ornaments, and links the bullet
character to a set of all bullet-like ornaments, from which the user can choose.
Partially supported: TeX can handle alphabetic substitutions, but not bullet choice.
pnum, Proportional Figures
Digits will have different widths. Supported. Compare tnum; see also lnum and onum.
salt, Stylistic Alternates
Lets the user choose between stylistic alternate forms for a character. The
--altselector-char mechanism provides useful access to this feature. If you turn on
salt globally, otftotfm takes the first alternate form whenever there's more than one
choice. See also aalt and ss01; salt is generally more useful than aalt for TeX,
since it refers exclusively to stylistic alternates.
sinf, Scientific Inferiors
Replaces digits and some punctuation marks with smaller, lowered forms intended for
subscripts. Supported. Compare subs.
size, Optical Size
This feature stores information about the range of optical sizes for which the font
was intended. There is no point in selecting it with otftotfm, since it should not
change the font's appearance in any way.
smcp, Small Capitals
Replaces lower-case letters with small capitals. Supported. Compare c2sc.
ss01-ss20, Stylistic Sets 1-20
Replaces characters with a uniform set of stylistic alternates. Differs from
features like salt in that a Stylistic Set is uniform: an ssXX feature should never
involve selection from a set of possible alternate characters. Supported.
subs, Subscript
Replaces characters with smaller, lowered forms intended for subscripts. Supported.
Compare sinf; some fonts support sinf but not subs.
sups, Superscript
Replaces digits, some punctuation marks, and some lower-case letters with smaller,
raised forms intended for superscripts. Supported.
swsh, Swash
Activates all swash forms for each character. There may be more than one swash form,
in which case otftotfm will pick the first one listed. Supported, except that swash
variants other than the first are inaccessible. Note that some fonts with swash
variants support the cswh feature exclusively.
tnum, Tabular Figures
All digits will have the same width, so that tables and the like will align visually.
Supported. Compare pnum; see also lnum and onum.
zero, Slashed Zero
Replaces the zero character with a slashed zero. Supported.

DIAGNOSTICS AND TROUBLESHOOTING

no writable directory found in $TEXMF
Otftotfm could not find a writable directory in your $TEXMFVAR or $TEXMF path. Did
you create a $HOME/.texmf-var or $HOME/texmf directory? If so, run the command
"kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF'" to verify that directory is not being found. You
may need to set your TEXMF environment variable, to
'{!!'"$HOME"'/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN}', for instance (note the different kinds of quotes;
on my machine, this expands to '{!!/home/kohler/texmf,!!$TEXMFMAIN}').

'char' has no encoding, ignoring kern removal
(or ligature removal, lig/kern removal, or ligature)
These messages indicate a slight problem with your encoding file: one of the LIGKERN
commands referred to a character not present in the encoding. This might be due to a
misspelling in the LIGKERN command or the encoding file, or it might be an oversight.
Either fix the encoding file or ignore the warning.

can't map 'char' to Unicode
Another encoding file problem: One of the glyph names in an UNICODING block could not
be converted to Unicode. This is problematic since UNICODING exists wholly to
translate glyph names into Unicode. Fix the encoding file or ignore the warning.

not enough room in encoding, ignoring N glyph(s) ...
There wasn't space in the encoding for all the glyphs referred to by the features you
selected. For example, maybe the font had more ligatures than there were empty slots
in the encoding. Fix this warning by selecting fewer features, or by using an
encoding with more empty slots, such as the 7t.enc encoding distributed with
otftotfm.

The '-a' option did not install my font correctly.
Try again with the '--verbose' option, which causes otftotfm to explain its behavior.
Note that by default, otftotfm will not re-install files already present in your
system's TeX search paths (in the current directory, for instance). Use '--force' to
override this behavior.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How can I get a small-caps "SS" in place of the German sharp-S?
Supply the option '--unicoding "germandbls =: SSsmall"'.

How can I prevent f-ligatures from forming in a small-caps font?
This should happen automatically, but some overzealous encoding files add f-ligatures
even when the font doesn't request them. Try the "--no-encoding-commands" option if
this is a problem for you.

Otftotfm seems to take a long time.
Use the -V option to see what it's doing. Often the culprit is the updmap(1)
program; if you're planning to run otftotfm multiple times, give it the --no-updmap
option and run updmap manually when you're done.

How can I refer to the different forms of phi?
Otftotfm follows TeX practice and widely-distributed TeX encoding vectors, so "/phi"
in an input encoding vector should map to a "straight" phi and "/phi1" should map to
a "loopy" phi. Note that TeX practice differs from the PostScript standard naming
conventions, in which "/phi" is "loopy" and "/phi1" is "straight"; this means that
otftotfm may map "/phi" in an input encoding vector to a font's "/phi1" glyph, and
vice versa. Perhaps most unambiguously, you can use "/uni03D5" for the "straight"
form and "/uni03C6" for the "loopy" form.

How can I get lining figures (that is, normal line-height digits) with small caps
('-fsmcp')?
Many fonts use old-style figures by default with small caps. Since the default is not
specified, it's wise to explicitly supply '-flnum' or '-fonum'.

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