> I'm thinking about getting a nice font with ligatures, small caps, > old style numbers, etc., to use with groff. The problem is that all > the newly made font are opentype fonts, and can't be found as > postscript font.
I suggest to try heirloom troff which supports OpenType fonts natively. Otherwise... > I've searched on some solution to translate opentype fonts to > postscipt fonts, and found some software: fontforge, and a command > line tool available with texlive: the lcdf type tools: > http://www.lcdf.org/type/ > > They both can convert opentype font to postscript font, but they > both generate a single postscript font containing all the opentype > features (small caps, old style numbers...) instead of making one > postscript font for each feature. ... I see this in http://www.lcdf.org/type/t1reencode.1.html : This series of commands, which use cfftot1(1) and otftotfm(1) as well as t1reencode itself, generate a version of Warnock Pro Regular with old-style figures in the slots for numbers (because of otftotfm’s -fonum option). The new font will be called WarnockPro-RegularOsF. otftotfm -fonum WarnockPro-Regular.otf \ --output-encoding /tmp/osf.enc cfftot1 WarnockPro-Regular.otf | t1reencode -e /tmp/osf.enc \ -n WarnockPro-RegularOsF -N "Warnock Pro Regular OsF" \ -o WarnoProRegOsF.pfb It seems to me that this is exactly what you need. Werner
