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<entry id="fontinst"
       datestamp="2003/07/23" 
       modifier="Graham.Williams@togaware.com">
  <about>
    <name>fontinst</name>
    <caption>Help with installing fonts for TeX and LaTeX.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>unknown</name>
    </author>
    <license type="lppl"/>
    <version>
      <number>1.926</number>
    </version>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      TeX macros for converting Adobe Font Metric files to TeX metric
      and virtual font format. Fontinst helps mainly with the number
      crunching and shoveling parts of font installation. This means
      in practice that it creates a number of files which give the TeX
      metrics (and related information) for a font family that (La)TeX
      needs to do any typesetting in these fonts. Fontinst furthermore
      makes it easy to create fonts containing glyphs from more than
      one base font, taking advantage of e.g. "expert" font sets.

      Fontinst cannot examine files to see if they contain any useful
      information, nor automatically search for files or work with
      binary file formats; those tasks must normally be done manually
      or with the help of some other tool, such as the pltotf and
      vptovf programs.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>fonts/utilities/fontinst</ctan>
    <texlive>generic2</texlive>
  </distribution>
</entry>

