Comprehensive TeX Archive Network: package description
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Name: fontinst
Author: Alan Jeffrey <alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 28.4.1993
Last changed in archive: 1994/01/14
Archive-path: fonts/utilities/fontinst
Mirrored from: ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk
Description: 
  This package allows you to install PostScript fonts 
  (or any other fonts
  given in AFM format) in arbitrary encodings.  Features of this font
  installer are that it:
 * Is written in TeX, for maximum portabilty (at the cost of speed).
 * Supports the full Cork encoding (as much as one can with
   PostScript fonts).
 * Allows fonts to be generated in an arbitrary encoding, with
   arbitrary `fake' characters---for example the `ij' character can be
   faked if necessary by putting an `i' next to a `j'.
 * Allows caps and small caps fonts with letter spacing and kerning.
 * Allows kerning to be shared between characters, for example `ij'
   can be kerned on the left as if it were an `i' and on the right as if
   it were a `j'.  This is useful, since many PostScript fonts only
   include kerning information for characters without diacriticals.
 * Allows the generation of math fonts with nextlarger,
   varchar, and arbitrary font dimensions.
 * Allows more than one PostScript font to contribute to a TeX font,
   for example the `ffi' ligatures for a font can be taken from the
   Expert encoding, if you have it.
 * Automatically generates an fd file for use with version 2 of
   the New Font Selection Scheme.
 * Can be customized by the user to deal with arbitrary font encodings.