de-gruyter-sans_serif/scripts/README.md

De Gruyter Font

Installation

Requirements

Required are the essential build tools, ruby, fontforge and texlive

sudo apt install build-essential ruby fontforge texlive-xetex texlive-lang-greek texlive-lang-german texlive-humanities texlive-math-extra

build-essential -> Make fontforge -> automatic fontediting texlive -> rendering of the example document

necessary libraries for ruby

gem install nokogiri gem install pdfkit gem install active_record

Usage

Creation of new fonts

1. place source font for glyphs in source_fonts
2. in config/chars.csv define the fonts used for the glyph for serif and sans serif versions (regular, bold, italic, bold italic)
3. make new-font-set
4. the new fonts are placed in output/

Creation of test document with the new fonts

1. make render-pdf
2. the new document is placed in pdf-output/document.pdf