Various Type 1 fonts for TeX

PIE.MF - Riichi Mahjong Tiles

MetaFont source made by Takayuki Yamaizumi and released as part of Riichi Book I sources.

I have modified the source for a 24pt font and adapted for MetaPost. The red five tiles are redone with braille dot instead of meshed texture for aesthetic. Type 1 version is created using mftrace.

The four season tiles are missing.

• Font sample
• Files (Gzipped)

3270 font with APL support

Converted from OTF version, suitable for pdfTeX and DVIPDFMx.

To install, untar the content of 3270.tgz to somewhere in the kpsewhich --expand-path="$TEXMF".

This is for plainTeX that you are supposed to use the statement ∖font∖apl=3270 to load the font.

• Font sample
• APL sample

The apldef.tex file is similar to the corresponding macro provided by fonts/apl on CTAN, and can be use to type APL glyphs.

A few notes:

• The font produced by otftotfm program has the issue that baseline is higher that it supposed to be, I don't use any font editing programs so I created a virtual font to fix this problem.
• Some glyphs are composed by overstrike rather than importing the corresponding glyphs. One reason to do so is reduce the amount of glyphs imported and reserve the space for possible future improvements.
• The other reason is that I feel certain glyphs are not consistent with each other. One change I did made is shifting "dieresis" a bit to right in the virtual font so it looks like centered when overstrike to form "switch", "power", "over".
• It might create trouble that copy from the PDF would not be fully functional as a TeX macro is used to perform overstrike. In the future this could be solved by provide proper encoding with virtual font.