1MAKEJVF(1)                  General Commands Manual                 MAKEJVF(1)
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NAME

6       makejvf - Make Japanese VF file from Japanese TeX TFM file
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SYNOPSIS

9       makejvf [<options>] <TeX TFM file> <PS font TFM>
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DESCRIPTION

12       makejvf  is  a  tool to generate Japanese VF file from Japanese TeX TFM
13       (JFM) file for use with dvips.
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15       When processing Japanese texts, pTeX refers to JFM (min10.tfm,  jis.tfm
16       etc.),  which  includes  definitions of some different character widths
17       and metric glue/kerns. For most punctuations and quotation  marks,  the
18       character  widths  are  truncated to less than 1 zw (zenkaku-width; the
19       width of ordinary Kanji characters), and metric glue/kerns are inserted
20       as a substitute.
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22       On the other hand, in Japanese PS fonts, all punctuations and quotation
23       marks have the same character widths as ordinary Kanji characters.  For
24       this  reason,  when dvips processes the resulting DVI, these characters
25       have to be shifted to the left by the amount of glue/kerns inserted.
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27       To achieve this, Virtual fonts (VF) and PS TFM files are required; When
28       VF  contains  the commands of shifting characters, PS font TFM can have
29       the exact character widths of PS fonts.
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31       The program makejvf can be used for this purpose. It inputs a pTeX  JFM
32       file  (refered  to  as <TeX TFM file> in SYNOPSIS above), and outputs a
33       corresponding VF file (with the same basename as <TeX TFM file>) and  a
34       JFM file for a PS font JFM file (<PS font TFM> above).
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OPTIONS

37       -C        Condensed ("Cho-tai") mode.
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39       -K <PS-TFM>
40                 Map  Kana  (more exactly, non-Kanji) characters to another PS
41                 font JFM named <PS-TFM>.
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43       -b <integer>
44                 Base line shift amount; the  integer  represents  a  relative
45                 value,  using the character height as a base of 1000.  When a
46                 positive integer is specified, the  characters  are  lowered.
47                 When  a  negative  integer  is  specified, the characters are
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50       -m        Replace single/double  quotation  marks  (',  '')  with  sin‐
51                 gle/double prime quotation marks (so-called "minute") in ver‐
52                 tical writing.  The replacement is realized  by  manipulating
53                 glyphs of prime and double prime (JIS 0x216C and 0x216D; Uni‐
54                 code  U+2032  and  U+2033),  not  by  putting  actual  glyphs
55                 designed    for   quotation   marks   (Unicode   U+301D   and
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58       -a <AFMfile>
59                 Name of the input AFM file used for  Kana-tsume  mode.   This
60                 option is unsupported.
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62       -k <integer>
63                 Kana-tsume  (narrower  spaces between Kana characters) margin
64                 amount; the integer represents a relative  value,  using  the
65                 character  width  as  a  base  of 1000. This option should be
66                 accompanied with -a option.  This option is unsupported.
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68       -i        Start mapped font ID from No. 0 in  output  VF  (by  default,
69                 makejvf defaults to No. 1).
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71       -e        Enhanced mode; the horizontal shift amount is determined from
72                 the glue/kern table of input JFM file.
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74       By default, makejvf uses the hard-coded value as the  horizontal  shift
75       amount,  which  is (mostly) optimized for Japanese fonts. When enhanced
76       mode (option -e) is enabled, the shift amount is  determined  from  the
77       input  pTeX  TFM (JFM) file, which is likely to output most suitable VF
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80       For most standard Japanese JFM (like jis.tfm and its derivatives),  the
81       output  VFs  from  both  modes will have no significant difference. For
82       simplified/traditional Chinese JFM  (like  upschrm-h.tfm  and  uptchrm-
83       h.tfm),  the output VF from enhanced mode will be better. For min10.tfm
84       and its derivatives, enhanced mode should never be enabled,  since  the
85       characterization in min10.tfm is non-standard.
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87       -t <CNFfile>
88                 Use <CNFfile> as a configuration file.
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90       -u <Charset>
91                 UCS  mode.  Available  charsets are: gb (GB = Simplified Chi‐
92                 nese), cns (CNS = Traditional Chinese), ks (KS = Korean), jis
93                 (JIS = Japanese), jisq (JIS quote only), custom (user-defined
94                 CHARSET from <CNFfile>; see CONFIGURATION  FILE  FORMAT  sec‐
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97       Options below are effective only in UCS mode:
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99       -J <PS-TFM>
100                 Map single/double quote to another JIS-encoded PSfont TFM.
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103                 Map single/double quote to another UCS-encoded PSfont TFM.
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105       -3        Use  set3,  that  is, enable non-BMP characters support (with
106                 UCS mode).  By default makejvf does not output >=U+10000,  to
107                 reduce  file size and to avoid problems with old DVI drivers.
108                 Recent versions of dvipdfmx and others  can  handle  VF  with
109                 >=U+10000  (=  set3  in  DVI language), therefore -3 might be
110                 helpful.
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112       -H        Use half-width Katakana.
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EXAMPLE

115       If you want to use min10 as Ryumin-Light-H, run
116                 makejvf min10.tfm rml
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118       This generates min10.vf and rml.tfm. Put these files in an  appropriate
119       directory under TEXMF tree, and add the following line to psfonts.map.
120                 rml Ryumin-Light-H
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CONFIGURATION FILE FORMAT

123       With  -t  option, you can give makejvf a custom settings for generating
124       VF. The syntax is:
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126                 % comment line
127                 MOVE <code>    <right>   <down>
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129                 REPLACE   <code>    <new code>
130                 CHARSET   <code>,<code>,<code>..<code>,<code>,
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134       Each line should begin with a command,  and  should  be  TAB-separated.
135       Line starting with % is a comment, and empty lines are ignored.
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137       The  MOVE  command  specifies  horizontal/vertical shift amount for the
138       individual character <code>. The REPLACE command replaces the character
139       <code>  with  <new code>. The CHARSET command sets the custom character
140       set of output VF; the + character continues from the previous line.
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142       An example usage can be found in uptex-fonts project. See GitHub repos‐
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144                 <https://github.com/texjporg/uptex-fonts>.
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SEE ALSO

147       More detailed description of makejvf in Japanese is available at
148            $TEXMFDIST/doc/fonts/ptex-fonts/README_makejvf
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AUTHOR

151       This  manual  page  was  written  by Japanese TeX Development Community
152       <https://texjp.org>.  For  more  information,  see  GitHub   repository
153       <https://github.com/texjporg/ptex-fonts>.
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155       Many thanks to Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org>, for providing another
156       manpage in Debian GNU/Linux system.
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