lcdf-typetools mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, Nix, zypper, dnf, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• cfftot1
• mmafm
• mmpfb
• otfinfo
• otftotfm
• t1dotlessj
• t1lint
• t1rawafm
• t1reencode
• t1testpage
• ttftotype42

Projektgeschichte

The LCDF Typetools changelog records version 0.1 on 2003-06-02 as the initial release. The package quickly centered on practical OpenType-to-TeX and CFF-to-Type 1 workflows: early 0.x releases fixed CFF parsing, added contextual substitutions, and made `otftotfm` place generated files into a TeX Directory Structure hierarchy.

The older `mminstance` tools, `mmafm` and `mmpfb`, were folded into LCDF Typetools in version 1.50 on 2003-08-20. Later releases continued to track real-world font formats and toolchain behavior, including fixes for problematic fonts, TeX map handling, C++ build changes, and `otfinfo --var` support for variable fonts in version 2.110 on 2023-08-30.

Adoptionsgeschichte

LCDF Typetools became part of TeX and Unix font-packaging practice because it solved a concrete packaging problem: making OpenType and CFF fonts usable with TeX, PostScript, and older Type 1 oriented tools. CTAN describes the bundle as utilities for CFF conversion, multiple-master instances, OpenType inspection, TeX font metric generation, Type 1 linting, reencoding, and proof output.

Package-manager adoption spans Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or TeX Live packaging, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, and openSUSE-style ecosystems, which reflects the package's role as small infrastructure for font and TeX maintainers rather than an end-user desktop application.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is batch-oriented: inspect a font with `otfinfo`, convert a CFF or OpenType CFF font with `cfftot1`, generate TeX font metrics and encodings with `otftotfm`, lint Type 1 fonts with `t1lint`, or build instances from Type 1 Multiple Master fonts with `mmafm` and `mmpfb`.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

LCDF Typetools matters to package nerds because it sits at the awkward boundary between font formats, TeX packaging, PostScript compatibility, and Unix command-line reproducibility. It is the kind of small, sharp toolchain component that makes font packages buildable without bundling opaque GUI font software.

Its changelog also documents the maintenance reality of font tooling: a steady stream of fixes for specific fonts, encodings, TeX integration, compiler behavior, and format edge cases over two decades.

Zeitleiste

• 2003-06-02: Version 0.1 initial release.
• 2003-06-23: Version 0.8 renamed `otftopl` to `otftotfm` and made TeX Directory Structure integration central to automatic mode.
• 2003-08-20: `mminstance` version 1.50 began shipping `mmafm` and `mmpfb` as part of LCDF Typetools.
• 2014-01-08: Version 2.100 included C++11 and compiler-related build updates.
• 2023-08-30: Version 2.110 added `otfinfo --var` support for variable fonts.

Related projects

• Related projects and standards include TeX Live, CTAN, kpathsea, Adobe Type 1 and Compact Font Format, OpenType, TrueType, Ghostscript, and TeX font metric tooling.

Quellen

• https://ctan.org/pkg/lcdf-typetools?lang=en
• https://github.com/kohler/lcdf-typetools
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kohler/lcdf-typetools/master/NEWS.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kohler/lcdf-typetools/master/ONEWS
• https://www.lcdf.org/type/