Directory fonts/utilities/fontinst-contrib/grkfinst

This is the README file of the GRKFINST package,
version 0.3.2 (May 7, 2005)

GRKFINST package is Copyright 2002-2005 by Alexej Kryukov
<basileia@yandex.ru>.

It may be distributed under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public
License, either version 1.1 of this license or (at your option) any
later version.

ABSTRACT
~~~~~~~~

GRKFINST is a plug-in for the fontinst package, which allows to
install Greek Type 1 fonts with TeX.

REQUIREMENTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~

First, you have to obtain the fontinst system version 1.926 or later. If
you already have an older fontinst installation (teTeX 2.0 comes with
fontinst 1.8), remove it. This document supposes that you already know how
to install fonts with fontinst; if not refer to the fontinst
documentation.

If you are planning to create "large" virtual fonts for use with
Omega, you have to download also my ofntinst package.

FILES INCLUDED
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The GRKFINST package includes the following files:

-- greek.mtx. This file represents the core of the system. It 
describes all glyphs from the Basic Greek and Extended Greek
Unicode ranges and also some glyphs not present in Unicode, which,
however, exist in the LGR encoding. This file utilizes some ideas 
originally implemented in the Cyrillic T2 package and adapts them
to the Greek alphabet.

Previously the package included a special file, called noautokern.mtx,
used to disable automatical generation of  kerning pairs for small
accented letters. Although it is natural to set kerning for all such
letters equal to the kerning of the same letters without accents (e. g.
alphatonos should have the same kerning pairs as alpha), this may produce
a lot of redundant kern pairs, which may never occur in real text. Now
this  file is not needed: if you want to prevent generating of such kern
pairs, load greek.mtx with the `noautokern' option. Note that capital
accented glyphs will be kerned anyway.

-- greek-lt.mtx. This file is needed for installing Polytonic Greek fonts
from Linotype. These fonts haven't precomposed combinations with iota
subscriptum (ypogegrammeni): instead, they contain 3 variants of a
combining ypogegrammeni (iotasubscripta, iotasubscripte or
iotasubscripto), supposed to be typed before alpha, eta and omega
correspondingly. greek-lt.mtx allows to `fake' accented letters with
ypogegrammeni by adding this combining glyphs to the appropriate letters.

-- aliasingtex. This file is based on fnstcorr.tex, taken from the
Cyrillic T2 package. You have to load this file immediately after
fontinst.sty. It defines some useful commands, for example, the \galias
command, which allows to define aliases for glyph names used in the
greek.mtx file. 

The idea behind glyph aliasing is that standard Greek glyph names could be
used everywhere (greek.mtx, *.etx, your local mtx files, etc), and one
file serves all possible non-standard glyph names! This glyph aliasing
mechanism is also considered as an important way to correct glyph naming
bugs in certain fonts.

-- elalias.tex. This is a standard aliases table which allows to install
Greek fonts from some vendors, using different glyph naming
systems. It was tested with Greek fonts designed by Ralph Hancock
and by the Paratype company. You may have to customize it
according to the fonts you want to install.

-- elalias-lt.tex. This table should be used for Linotype polytonic
Greek fonts.

-- elalias-uni.tex. This is another aliases table, which is suitable
for fonts with more strict glyph naming system, based on the AGL 
(for example, it sets `uni1F00' as an alias for `alphalenis').

-- wgalias.tex. This aliases table should be used for some WinGreek fonts
where glyphs are named according to the ANSI standard, although these
names really don't correspond to the glyphs they are representing. For
example, the character with code 0xC0 has name `Agrave' although really it
is Greek letter eta with psili and varia.

-- lgr.etx. This file describes the LGR font encoding with some small
modifications, as it is used in my psgreek package.

-- lgr-orig.etx. This file describes the same LGR encoding exactly as
it is represented in the CB Greek fonts. Now it also includes ligatures
for final sigma (I still think they are useless and even harmful, so they
will never be added also into lgr.etx and lgr-lig.etx).

-- lgr-lig.etx. This file is useful for installing Greek fonts, containing
some alternate glyph forms, especially the curled beta. It provides
some ligatures which automatically replace standard beta with the curled
form in the middle of the word.

-- lgrc.etx, lgr-origc.etx, lgr-ligc.etx. These are driver files, used
to load lgr.etx, lgr-orig.etx and lgr-lig.etx with slightly different
parameters. They are necessary for installing fonts with faked small
capitals.

-- hancock.tex, wingreek.tex. These are sample files which illustrate
installing Greek fonts with the LGR encoding.

-- ohancock.tex, owingreek.tex. These are sample files which illustrate
installing Unicode Greek fonts for use with Omega.

INSTALLATION AND USAGE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

First, put all *.mtx, *.etx, *.sty and *.tex files to some places
where TeX can find them (maybe, together with the corresponding
files from the original fontinst package).

Put *.afm files for font families you want to install to a separate
directory and create a job file (if in trouble, refer to the fontinst 
documentation and to the samples included with this package).

Process this file either with latex or with plain tex. For Unicode fonts
with Greek glyphs use omega/lambda instead.

Use the pltotf and vptovf utilities to convert your *.pl and *.vpl
files into the binary format, ready for use with TeX.

You can get nicely formatted sources of *.etx and *.mtx files by
processing them with LaTeX. E.g., "latex lgr.etx" will generate
"lgr.dvi" which documents the LGR encoding vector.

Happy TeXing!
Alexej Kryukov <basileia@yandex.ru>