[Q] TFM files headers
Hironobu Yamashita
h.y.acetaminophen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 13 19:01:33 CEST 2019
Hi Tom,
Some of TFM files you've listed are JFM (Japanese pTeX font metric),
though they have .tfm not .jfm.
All of the below are in JFM format.
We Japanese use those files on a daily basis ;-)
>> 24 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/ptex-fonts/standard
>> 12 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/ptex-fonts/nmin-ngoth
>> 8 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/ptex-fonts/jis
>> 4 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/ptex-fonts/dvips
>> 1080 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/japanese-otf
>> 522 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/japanese-otf-uptex
>> 40 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/jlreq
>> 24 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/zhmetrics-uptex
>> 260 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/pxufont
>> 25 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/morisawa
>> 40 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/uptex-fonts/jis
>> 8 /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/uptex-fonts/min
You can check whether a .tfm is an ordinary TFM or pTeX JFM by
$ chkdvifont /path/to/something.tfm
Best,
Hironobu
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