Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : ttf2tex Version : 0.70 Upstream Author : Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ttf2tex.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: Bash shell Description : a TrueType font installer for Unix ttf2tex is a script for the Bash shell which generates all files required to use TrueType fonts with teTeX or TeX Live from a set of font files. In short, it will do for fonts what fontinst's latinfamily command does for Type 1 PostScript fonts. In addition to that, ttf2tex sorts all files, builds the map files required by ttf2pk and pdftex, and optionally installs everything into either the system-wide local TeX tree or the private TeX tree of the user running ttf2tex. Note that ttf2tex's approach to using TrueType fonts with TeX does not imply converting them to Type 1 format. With a current version of teTeX and a proper setup, TeX can use TrueType fonts via the ttf2pk utility while pdftex even supports them natively. This package includes a tool for creating a Debian package for use in latex or pdflatex from a family of TT fonts in the file system (ttf2tex-mkpkg). Notice that ttf2tex is not being supported upstream since September 2004. However, the command seems to be stable and robust. A preliminary version of the package is available in [1], where you can also find a package automatically generated with ttf2tex-mkpkg (latex-dkghwr-font). The TTF files for creating this package are in the ttf-fifthhorseman-dkg-handwriting, which is in the NEW queue. After installing this package, a LaTeX file as simple as [2] can be used in pdflatex to produce DVI or PDF files [3]. [1] http://people.debian.org/~rafael/ttf2tex/ [2] http://people.debian.org/~rafael/ttf2tex/test.tex [3] http://people.debian.org/~rafael/ttf2tex/test.pdf -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
