Re: [Groff] Musings on the adding of fonts

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> I just ran the afmtodit program, and installed the files
> in ./font/devps/. One thing, though: It seems that the
> .pfa files have to live there as well. The file names in
> the download must not contain paths. A pain to be forced
> to have those files there, and not to be able to point to
> them.

Not really.  The pfa files can be anywhere.  Only grops
needs to find them (if they're to be downloaded to the
printer), and for this purpose you *can* give the complete
path to the font file in the file "download".

For example,

  # List of downloadable fonts
  # PostScript-name       Filename

  Symbol-Slanted        /usr/lib/fonts/Type1/Symbol-Slanted.pfa
  ZapfDingbats-Reverse  /usr/lib/fonts/Type1/ZapfDingbats-Reverse.pfa
  AGaramond-Bold        /usr/lib/fonts/Type1/AGaramond-Bold.pfa
  AGaramond-BoldItalic  /usr/lib/fonts/Type1/AGaramond-BoldItalic.pfa
  AGaramond-Italic      /usr/lib/fonts/Type1/AGaramond-Italic.pfa
  AGaramond-Regular     /usr/lib/fonts/Type1/AGaramond-Regular.pfa


> [ ... cm fonts as type-1 outlines ... ]

There exist freely available Type-1 versions of the Computer
Modern fonts.  You can use them like any other Type-1 font.

See, for example,
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/dante/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/README