[gentium] font variants for pdflatex

[Bob Tennent]

Karl and Thorsten: I suggest looking at the documentation for otftotfm.  I
don't use it directly but via fontinst.

Bob

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 5:26 PM Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> Hi Thorsten -
>
>     As far as I understand, I would have to change the .enc/.?fm files.
>     However these seem to be manually committed into the source repo,
>
> I didn't write the code, but my understanding is that the .enc files are
> manually created. The .tfm/.fd/.map are generated from that, using the
> Ruby script source/fonts/gentium-tug/generate-support-files.rb:
>
> # This script generates *.fd, *.tfm and *.map files. It also takes encoding
> # files (*.enc) containing small and capital letters and creates encoding
> # files for small caps from them. It doesn't touch other files, like *.sty
> or
> # support files for ConTeXt. This script is called without any parameters.
>
> Thus, you'd have to make .enc files for what you want and tweak
> the script to get the output names you want. Does not sound either fun
> or easy to me.
>
> I haven't seen a general framework made for handling ss features when
> making (pdf)(la)tex support from otf/ttf. Since different fonts give
> completely different meanings to the same ss, there are limits to what
> can be done. OTOH, I can imagine some things that could be done across
> fonts.
>
> Bob, have you done anything along these lines? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
>
>
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