[Fontinst] ITC Galliard CC - ff, ffi & ffl ligatures

[Christopher Adams]

>
> Can you please do t1testpage on the fonts and place the ps files online.
>

I installed t1testpage and ran it over GalliardAltCC-Roman {fglra8a}. I've
placed the results here:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/471556/fonts/GalliardAltCC-Roman.ps

You can see the fj ligature sitting in slot j. ff, fi, fl, ffi & ffl are in
slots V, W, X, Y & Z.

I also ran this over the Roman and OSF fonts, but the resulting .ps file
only seems to contain the last 118 glyphs. (from emdash to zcaron) Why is
that?

==

I have been able to insert the ff, ffi & ffl ligatures into the Roman by
following Dr. Rees's advice and using reglyphfonts. The relevant portions of
my fontinst script are as follows:


%%%%%%%%
\transformfont{fglr8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{fglr8a}}} %Roman
\transformfont{fglri8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{fglri8a}}} %Italic
\transformfont{fglra8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{fglra8a}}} % Alt Roman
\transformfont{fglria8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{fglria8a}}} % Alt Italic

\relax
\reglyphfonts
    \renameglyph{ff}{V}
    \renameglyph{ffi}{Y}
    \renameglyph{ffl}{Z}
    \renameglyph{fj}{j} % Useless for now, because t1.etx has no slot for
this
    \reglyphfont{fglra}{fglra8r}
    \reglyphfont{fglria}{fglria8r}
\endreglyphfonts


%these instructions use t1fgl.etx, which for now is an exact copy of t1.etx
\installfonts
\installfamily{T1}{fgl}{}
\installfont{fglr8t}{fglr8r,fglra,newlatin}{t1fgl}{T1}{fgl}{m}{n}{}
\installfont{fglrc8t}{fglrc8r,fglr8r suffix
lining,newlatin}{lining,t1fgl}{T1}{fgl}{m}{sc}{}
\installfont{fglri8t}{fglri8r,fglria,newlatin}{t1fgl}{T1}{fgl}{m}{it}{}
\endinstallfonts

\installfonts
\installfamily{TS1}{fgl}{}
\installfont{fglr8c}{fglr8r,fglrc8r suffix
oldstyle,textcomp}{ts1}{TS1}{fgl}{m}{n}{}
\installfontas{fglr8c}{TS1}{fgl}{m}{sc}{}
\installfont{fglri8c}{fglri8r,fglrij8r suffix
oldstyle,textcomp}{ts1}{TS1}{fgl}{m}{it}{}
\endinstallfonts

[...] % removed install commands for {fglj}

\endrecordtransforms
\bye
%%%%%%%%

Now, about the fj ligature...

I tried editing t1fgl.etx and adding a slot for the fj ligature. As a base
case I simply switched all instances of {FI}{fi} with {FJ}{fj}, and sure
enough the fj ligature appeared for all instances of fi in my test file.

I then tried removing one of the slots (dotlessj, I believe) and setting a
new slot for fj, following the syntax for the other f ligatures, and while
my testfile compiled all the glyphs seemed to be shifted over, so the wrong
glyphs were being placed. I then tried changing the above to use OT1, but
got an error about missing {fgl} font.


For the fj ligature, you have to iclude it in the 8r.enc vector.


I'm afraid I don't understand what this means.


>  If you don't have t1testpage but
> ghostscript and shell, you can do this in the fonts directory:
>
> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite  -sFONTPATH=.  -sOutputFile=
> galliard.ps   prfont.ps -c `grep FontName *afm | sed 's/^FontName
> \(.*\)$/\/\1 DoFont/'`


Is the only part of this that needs to be replaced the FontName? What name
do I use? The file name, or the name acording to what is stated in the afm
file? I tried a few different settings, but the output was a blank page.
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