On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, Wim Stockman wrote: > I found a small error in the install-font script of Peter Schaffter from > the mom macros > Link: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh > > The generated internalname is missing a "-" between font family and > font-style > > For instance, for the font FreeSerifBoldOblique.otf > FreeSerifBI > the internalname is wrong. > The script generates as internalname FreeSerifBoldItalic > and it should be: FreeSerif-BoldItalic. > There needs to be a little "-" between font family name and the font style > name. > if you embed the font in your pdf you will not notice it. > But if you don't embed them , they will be randomly substituted by pdf > viewers even if you have the font installed in linux because it doesn't > find the right one.
(Wim sent me a patched version of install-font off list. Attached if anyone is interested.) In install-font, internal names are grabbed from the .afm fontforge creates. A lot of .afms already observe the Family-Style convention. However, the ones that don't can't be guaranteed to observe any sort of naming convention that reliably allows slicing out a valid Style from the name and tacking it onto the end with a hyphen. Even some fonts that are properly named can get mangled. For example, your patch to install-font produces internal name 'Americana-ItalicBT' instead of (un-awked) 'AmericanaBT-Italic'. I'm not sure what can be done about this because internal names are in the hands of the font creator. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca
install-font-patched.sh
Description: Bourne shell script
