Re: [MiKTeX] Installing Cyrillic PostScript Fonts

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

Am Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:22:02 -0000 schrieb David Allsopp:

> I've just purchased Monotype Plantin Cyrillic and am trying to persuade
> fontinst to generate TeX files for it (I've got lots of purchased Latin
> fonts installed using fontinst already). I've installed the t2 package but
> can't find any examples of fontinst scripts for installing any Cyrillic
> fonts.
> 
> Any pointers to examples much appreciated (I don't particularly care about
> input encodings - the whole thing is in Plain TeX and I don't mind having to
> encode this small bit of Russian using entire \char if necessary). I'd just
> like (any) font with a table containing the Cyrillic characters from the
> postscript font so that I can use them.

Well in this case and if one font contains all the chars you want to
use I would suggest to simply use the brute force method:

1. generate a tfm from the raw font with afm2tfm

2. Write an .enc-file which lists the chars you want to use in the
wanted order

3. generate with afm2tfm a reencoded tfm which use this .enc

4. Write a map-file with the line

newtfm fontname " encodingname ReEncodeFont "
   <encodingfile.enc <type1file.pfb


You can find more details in the documentation of chessfss (where I
describe how to reencode chessfonts).


-- 
Ulrike Fischer