MAKEJVF(1) General Commands Manual MAKEJVF(1)
NAME
makejvf - Make Japanese VF file from Japanese TeX TFM file
SYNOPSIS
makejvf [<options>] <TeX TFM file> <PS font TFM>
DESCRIPTION
makejvf is a tool to generate Japanese VF file from Japanese TeX TFM
(JFM) file for use with dvips.
When processing Japanese texts, pTeX refers to JFM (min10.tfm, jis.tfm
etc.), which includes definitions of some different character widths and
metric glue/kerns. For most punctuations and quotation marks, the char-
acter widths are truncated to less than 1 zw (zenkaku-width; the width
of ordinary Kanji characters), and metric glue/kerns are inserted as a
substitute.
On the other hand, in Japanese PS fonts, all punctuations and quotation
marks have the same character widths as ordinary Kanji characters. For
this reason, when dvips processes the resulting DVI, these characters
have to be shifted to the left by the amount of glue/kerns inserted.
To achieve this, Virtual fonts (VF) and PS TFM files are required; When
VF contains the commands of shifting characters, PS font TFM can have
the exact character widths of PS fonts.
The program makejvf can be used for this purpose. It inputs a pTeX JFM
file (referred to as <TeX TFM file> in SYNOPSIS above), and outputs a
corresponding VF file (with the same basename as <TeX TFM file>) and a
JFM file for a PS font JFM file (<PS font TFM> above).
OPTIONS
-C Condensed ("Cho-tai") mode.
-K <PS-TFM>
Map Kana (more exactly, non-Kanji) characters to another PS
font JFM named <PS-TFM>.
-b <integer>
Base line shift amount; the integer represents a relative
value, using the character height as a base of 1000. When a
positive integer is specified, the characters are lowered.
When a negative integer is specified, the characters are
raised.
-m Replace single/double quotation marks (', '') with single/dou-
ble prime quotation marks (so-called "minute") in vertical
writing. The replacement is realized by manipulating glyphs
of prime and double prime (JIS 0x216C and 0x216D; Unicode
U+2032 and U+2033), not by putting actual glyphs designed for
quotation marks (Unicode U+301D and U+301E/U+301F).
-a <AFMfile>
Name of the input AFM file used for Kana-tsume mode. This op-
tion is unsupported.
-k <integer>
Kana-tsume (narrower spaces between Kana characters) margin
amount; the integer represents a relative value, using the
character width as a base of 1000. This option should be ac-
companied with -a option. This option is unsupported.
-i Start mapped font ID from No. 0 in output VF (by default,
makejvf defaults to No. 1).
-e Enhanced mode; the horizontal shift amount is determined from
the glue/kern table of input JFM file.
By default, makejvf uses the hard-coded value as the horizontal shift
amount, which is (mostly) optimized for Japanese fonts. When enhanced
mode (option -e) is enabled, the shift amount is determined from the in-
put pTeX TFM (JFM) file, which is likely to output most suitable VF for
the JFM.
For most standard Japanese JFM (like jis.tfm and its derivatives), the
output VFs from both modes will have no significant difference. For sim-
plified/traditional Chinese JFM (like upschrm-h.tfm and uptchrm-h.tfm),
the output VF from enhanced mode will be better. For min10.tfm and its
derivatives, enhanced mode should never be enabled, since the character-
ization in min10.tfm is non-standard.
-t <CNFfile>
Use <CNFfile> as a configuration file.
-O Omit entries in VF for characters with default metric. This
option is not allowed to be used with the option -t.
-u <Charset>
UCS mode. Available charsets are: gb (GB = Simplified Chi-
nese), cns (CNS = Traditional Chinese), ks (KS = Korean), jis
(JIS = Japanese), jisq (JIS quote only), custom (user-defined
CHARSET from <CNFfile>; see CONFIGURATION FILE FORMAT sec-
tion).
Options below are effective only in UCS mode:
-J <PS-TFM>
Map single/double quote to another JIS-encoded PSfont TFM.
-U <PS-TFM>
Map single/double quote to another UCS-encoded PSfont TFM.
-3 Use set3, that is, enable non-BMP characters support (with UCS
mode). By default makejvf does not output >=U+10000, to re-
duce file size and to avoid problems with old DVI drivers. Re-
cent versions of dvipdfmx and others can handle VF with
>=U+10000 (= set3 in DVI language), therefore -3 might be
helpful.
-H Use half-width Katakana.
EXAMPLE
If you want to use min10 as Ryumin-Light-H, run
makejvf min10.tfm rml
This generates min10.vf and rml.tfm. Put these files in an appropriate
directory under TEXMF tree, and add the following line to psfonts.map.
rml Ryumin-Light-H
CONFIGURATION FILE FORMAT
With -t option, you can give makejvf a custom settings for generating
VF. The syntax is:
% comment line
MOVE <code> <right> <down>
REPLACE <code> <new code>
CHARSET <code>,<code>,<code>..<code>,<code>,
+ <code>,<code>..<code>
Each line should begin with a command, and should be TAB-separated. Line
starting with % is a comment, and empty lines are ignored.
The MOVE command specifies horizontal/vertical shift amount for the in-
dividual character <code>. The REPLACE command replaces the character
<code> with <new code>. The CHARSET command sets the custom character
set of output VF; the + character continues from the previous line.
An example usage can be found in uptex-fonts project. See GitHub reposi-
tory
<https://github.com/texjporg/uptex-fonts>.
SEE ALSO
More detailed description of makejvf in Japanese is available at
$TEXMFDIST/doc/fonts/ptex-fonts/README_makejvf
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Japanese TeX Development Community
<https://texjp.org>. For more information, see GitHub repository
<https://github.com/texjporg/ptex-fonts>.
Many thanks to Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org>, for providing another
manpage in Debian GNU/Linux system.
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