Autofont Autofont software provides some Perl scripts that simplify font handling for TeX.
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Autofont software provides some Perl scripts that simplify font handling for TeX. Autofont software provides some Perl scripts that simplify font handling for TeX. The basic idea behind Autofont is that TeX-required font information, including TFM and VF font metrics, PK bitmap fonts, and DVIPS 'psfonts.map' references, should be generated on the fly when required, based on the TeX font name. With Autofont, referring to a PostScript font is sufficient to install that font for TeX's purposes. The user writes an .fd file and that's it. This differs from fontinst, where fonts must be explicitly installed.Autofont can automatically transform fonts based on "instructions" embedded in the font name. For example, "Times-Roman--sl167" refers to an artificially slanted version of Times Roman, and "ACaslon-Regular--f" refers to a version of Adobe Caslon Regular that includes the ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures found in Adobe Caslon Expert. Again, there is no need to install anything explicitly; simply refer to the fonts by name and Autofont will take care of the required virtual font manipulations.Autofont requires a Unix TeX installation based on Web2c.Requirements:· PerlInstallation Instructions:Autofont consists of three Perl 5 scripts and some library files requiredby those scripts. The first three steps are similar to those for any Perlmodule: 1. Run 'perl Makefile.PL ' to generate a Makefile. You will probably want to specify a prefix where the Autofont scripts should be installed: PREFIX= -- Places binaries in "/bin". Depending on your Perl version, this may also place Perl modules in "/lib/perl5/site_perl/" and manual pages in "/share/man/man1". Alternatively, you can set the directories separately: INSTALLBIN= -- Places binaries in "". INSTALLSITELIB= -- Places Perl modules in "". INSTALLMAN1DIR= -- Places manual pages in "". 2. Run 'make'. 3. Run 'make install'.The remaining steps are Autofont-specific. 4. Create symbolic links so that 'mktextfm' and 'mktexpk' run 'autofont-mktextfm' and 'autofont-mktexpk', respectively. These scripts are designed to be run automatically by TeX-related programs. The most reliable way to get them run is to place them in your path with the names that TeX expects, namely 'mktextfm' and 'mktexpk'. However, you should not replace your existing 'mktex' programs with Autofont scripts. Leave the existing programs in your path, but *after* the Autofont versions. Autofont will then run the old scripts when required. For example, if your PATH looks like '$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin', and the existing 'mktex' scripts are in /usr/bin, then you should add symbolic links to $HOME/bin so that '$HOME/bin/mktextfm' runs autofont-mktextfm, and similarly for mktexpk. 5. Create a writable TeX Directory Structure, if you don't have one already. This may be as simple as running 'mkdir ~/.texmf-var', since some Unix TeX installations set '~/.texmf-var' to a writable directory structure by default. Run "kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMFVAR'" to check. If your '~/.texmf-var' directory is not listed, set your TEXMFVAR environment variable to include it. Then make sure that "kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF'" finds this path as well. 6. Ensure that TeX can find your PostScript fonts. Usually, it is sufficient to set your T1FONTS environment variable to a path including all necessary font directories. 7. Download and install mmafm. Autofont requires the mmafm program to process multiple-master fonts. It is available as part of the lcdf-typetools package from http://www.lcdf.org/type/ 8. Create 'PSres.upr' files. Change into each directory on your system that contains PostScript fonts and font metric files and run the 'autofont-mkpsres' script. You should rerun this script every time you install a new PostScript font. 9. Add 'autofont.map' to dvips's PostScript map files. Autofont will automatically add entries to 'autofont.map' for fonts it creates. You should tell dvips about 'autofont.map' by adding a line like "p +autofont.map" to your '~/.dvipsrc' file, or your 'config.ps' file.Of course, you will also want to use Autofont font names in TeX. Thisdistribution includes LaTeX '.fd' files showing how you might use Autofontin practice.What's New in This Release:· Support for installations with different newlines than the default.

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