Hello ConTeXters,
in consequence to the Hans' prompt, I've tried to create enc and tfm files for some Japanese fonts. Namely, I've tried the Mona (http://monafont.sourceforge.net/index-e.html) and MS Mincho (distributed with Windows XP).
I've done these steps:
1) Created a TTX representation of the font with the ttx utility (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/)
ttx -t cmap -t name msmincho.ttf
2) Created the enc files using the Adam Lindsay's XSL stylesheet (http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/30_10.pdf)
I've googled out that Japanse "Katakana" and "Hiragana" characters are located at Unicode offsets 0x30, 0x32, 0x33 and 0xff. So I've created four enc files the following way
java -jar saxon8.jar msmincho.ttx ttx2enc.xsl "vector=30" >msmincho30.enc
The files are created without errors, but I cannot judge if they are correct...
3) Tried to create the appropriate tfm files with the ttf2tfm utility.
ttf2tfm msmincho.ttf -T msmincho30.enc msmincho30.tfm
I got a lot of warnings of style:
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ttf2tfm: WARNING: Cannot find character `uni3064'
specified in input encoding.
ttf2tfm: WARNING: Cannot find character `uni3065'
specified in input encoding.
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and finally this error:
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Using msmincho30.enc as input encoding.
ttf2tfm: ERROR: No TTF characters.
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No tfm file was created.
Could somebody advise/help me? I really haven't any experience with font conversion and cannot realize what's goings wrong...
If somebody is willing to help, I'll send him the appropriate files (I can't post them here - it's over 5MB zipped...).
Thanks,
Richard