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kpathsea: Glyph lookup

 
 6.3 Glyph lookup
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 This section describes how Kpathsea searches for a bitmap font in GF or
 PK format (or either) given a font name (e.g., 'cmr10') and a resolution
 (e.g., 600).
 
    Here is an outline of the search strategy (details in the sections
 below) for a file NAME at resolution DPI.  The search stops at the first
 successful lookup.
 
   1. Look for an existing file NAME.DPIFORMAT in the specified
      format(s).
 
   2. If NAME is an alias for a file F in the fontmap file
      'texfonts.map', look for F.DPI.
 
   3. Run an external program (typically named 'mktexpk') to generate the
      font (⇒mktex scripts)
 
   4. Look for FALLBACK.DPI, where FALLBACK is some last-resort font
      (typically 'cmr10').
 
    This is implemented in 'kpathsea_find_glyph' in
 'kpathsea/tex-glyph.c'.
 

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· Basic glyph lookup          Features common to all glyph lookups.
· Fontmap                     Aliases for fonts.
· Fallback font               Resolutions and fonts of last resort.
 

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