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From: ilh@winnie-the-pooh.mit.edu (I. Lee Hetherington)
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Subject: AFM to TFM conversion
Keywords: AFM,TFM
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.215017.27603@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 21:50:17 GMT
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I've used the program AFM2TFM to convert PostScript AFM files into TFM
files for use with TeX.  Problem is that I want all the kerning
information in the AFM file intact and *no* character recoding
whatsoever.  Is such a thing possible with another program?

When producing a "raw" font file (no recoding) AFM2TFM doesn't output
any kerning information.  When producing a "virtual" file it
rearranges some of the characters to make them conform to the TeX
coding (mostly ligatures).  Upon closer examination of the AFM2TFM
code I see that when converting kerning information it ignores kerning
around the digits 0-9; this is very undesirable for me.  I need both
character coding *and* all kerning information preserved in the
conversion.  (The font I am working with is not a standard text font
and the standard conventions are not applicable.)

Thank!  Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Lee Hetherington
MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
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