Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description ------------------------------------------------------ Name: makevpl Author: Angus Duggan Date: 25.9.93 Last changed in archive: 1993/09/25 Version: 1.2 Archive-path: fonts/utilities/vplutils Mirrored from: ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk Description: Description= Makevpl is a Perl script that merges several PL and/or VPL files, writing a VPL file as output. Command-line options control which fontdimens and bits of character information are added to the output font. Seperate control over the character width, height, depth, italic correction and character mappings are possible. Ligatures, kerns, delimiter lists and variable size characters are all dealt with. Fonts can be re-encoded, re-scaled, and merged. (PL and VPL files are TeX's property list and virtual property list files, which describe the character metrics and mappings.) Unfortunately Makevpl is quite slow, but it is thorough.