Installing Thai Fonts

I need to used Thai fonts from TTF files available on my Ubuntu station.

This is how to use a truetype font in pdfTex:

  - Create the TeX font metrics (tfm), the font description (fd) and the font mapping (map).
  - Put the files (ttf, tfm, fd, map) into the proper directories in the local texmf tree.
  - Update the TeX filename database.
  - Register the mapping.


I use TeX-Live under Ubuntu 20.04 (focal fossa).
The required tools (ttf2tfm, vpttovf, ttf2afm) are available in the package
texlive-binaries (which is included in sudo apt-get install texlive).

Reference: Holger Widmann <holger.widmann@innovidata.com>

# About:
# Installs a Truetype font family for use with pdftex.
# The script tries to rename the fonts automatically according
# to the Karl-Berry-scheme, e.g. lfrr8t.ttf stands for Linotype
# Frutiger LT Roman with T1 font-encoding.

Instructions:
Sudo password is required to put the
    - truetype fonts,
    - the font metrics,
    - the font definition
    - and the font mapping into TEXMF.

    1. Put the ttf files you want to use with pdftex into a directory.
    2. Put this script on your path or into the dir with the ttf files.
    3. Edit TEXMF, FONTFOUNDRY, FONTNAME, FONTFAMILY, FONTENC, FONTDEFENC
      and FONTENCFILE according to your font and desired encoding.
    4. Execute this script.
    5. For LaTex Use:
      \renewcommand{\[rm|sf|tt]default}{FONTFAMILY}
      \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\[rm|sf|tt]default}
      in preamble to change the font for the whole document.

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!) =========================== version information ========================== tlmgr revision 53568 (2020-01-27 19:20:16 +0100) tlmgr using installation: /usr/share/texlive TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2019 ==================== executables found by searching PATH ================= PATH: /home/dkz/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/local/go/bin dvipdfmx: /usr/bin/dvipdfmx dvips: /usr/bin/dvips fmtutil: /usr/bin/fmtutil kpsewhich: /usr/bin/kpsewhich luatex: /usr/bin/luatex mktexpk: /usr/bin/mktexpk pdftex: /usr/bin/pdftex tex: /usr/bin/tex tlmgr: /usr/bin/tlmgr updmap: /usr/bin/updmap xetex: /usr/bin/xetex =========================== active config files ========================== config.ps: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps fmtutil.cnf: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf mktex.cnf: /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf pdftexconfig.tex: /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex texmf.cnf: /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf texmf.cnf: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf texmf.cnf: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf updmap.cfg: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg updmap.cfg: /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg ============================= font map files ============================= kanjix.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap/kanjix.map pdftex.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map ps2pk.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map psfonts.map: /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map =========================== kpathsea variables =========================== ENCFONTS=.:{{}/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config,/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var,/home/dkz/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}/fonts/enc// SYSTEXMF=/var/lib/texmf:/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist:/usr/share/texmf TEXCONFIG={{}/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config,/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var,/home/dkz/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}/dvips// TEXFONTMAPS=.:{{}/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config,/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var,/home/dkz/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}/fonts/map/{kpsewhich,pdftex,dvips,}// TEXMF={{}/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config,/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var,/home/dkz/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist} TEXMFCONFIG=/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config TEXMFDBS={!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist} TEXMFDIST=/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist TEXMFHOME=/home/dkz/texmf TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/share/texmf TEXMFMAIN=/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/etc/texmf TEXMFSYSVAR=/var/lib/texmf TEXMFVAR=/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var TEXPSHEADERS=.:{{}/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config,/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var,/home/dkz/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type42,type3}}// VARTEXFONTS=/tmp/texfonts WEB2C={{}/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-config,/home/dkz/.texlive2019/texmf-var,/home/dkz/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist}/web2c ==== kpathsea variables from environment only (ok if no output here) ====

### This file was automatically generated by update-updmap. # # Any local change will be overwritten. Please see the documentation # of updmap on how to override things from here. # ### Map gkaiu.map MixedMap tipa.map Map wadalab.map Map garuda-c90.map Map norasi-c90.map Map bsmiu.map # Don't delete the following pseudo-comment unless you know what you are doing. # -_- DebPkgProvidedMaps -_- # This file will *not* be included in updmap.cfg if the tex-gyre package is # removed. Please read update-updmap(1) for details. # # This file is part of the set of files used to (indirectly) generate the # final map files such as psfonts_{t1,pk}.map, {pdftex,dvipdfm}_{,n}dl14.map, # ps2pk.map, builtin35.map and download35.map under /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/ # (with psfonts.map being a symbolic link to one of psfonts_{t1,pk}.map, # pdftex.map a symbolic link to one of pdftex_{,n}dl14.map and dvipdfm.map a # symbolic link to one of dvipdfm_{,n}dl14.map, the choice depending on your # updmap configuration, which you can customize by altering the files in # /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ and running update-updmap). # # You should *not* modify the aforementioned final map files under # /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/ directly, for they are automatically generated by # updmap-sys(1). Instead, you should read update-updmap(1), updmap-sys(1) and # if you actually need to make changes to the aforementioned final map files, # you should make the changes in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/, use update-updmap to # regenerate /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg and finally updmap-sys to # regenerate the final map files. # # Reading /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg can also help understand how all # this works. # Map qag.map Map qbk.map Map qcr.map Map qcs.map Map qhv.map Map qpl.map Map qtm.map Map qzc.map MixedMap cm-super-extended-t1.map MixedMap cm-super-extended-t2a.map MixedMap cm-super-extended-t2b.map MixedMap cm-super-extended-t2c.map MixedMap cm-super-extended-ts1.map MixedMap cm-super-extended-x2.map Map bkaiu.map Map gbsnu.map MixedMap cm-super-minimal-t1.map MixedMap cm-super-minimal-t2a.map MixedMap cm-super-minimal-t2b.map MixedMap cm-super-minimal-t2c.map MixedMap cm-super-minimal-ts1.map MixedMap cm-super-minimal-x2.map Map lm.map

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/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-t1.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-qx--base.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-ot1.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-t2c.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-lgr.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-t2a.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-il2.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-ts1.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-qx.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-t1--base.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-t2b.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-ts1--base.tfm /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dejavu/DejaVuSans-tlf-x2.tfm

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded format=pdftex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./1.tex kpathsea: Running mktextfm AcornInitials /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation A for AcornInitials. /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input AcornInitials This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded base=mf) kpathsea: Running mktexmf AcornInitials ! I can't find file `AcornInitials'. <*> ...r; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input AcornInitials Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...r; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input AcornInitials Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: AcornInitials.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input AcornInitials' failed to make AcornInitials.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \fte=AcornInitials at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. \fte l.2 \font\fte=AcornInitials at 12pt\fte

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    $ sudo apt-get purge texlive*
    $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/* and rm -rf ~/.texlive*
    $ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/texmf
    $ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/texmf
    $ sudo rm -rf /etc/texmf
    $ sudo apt-get remove tex-common --purge
    $ rm -rf ~/.texlive
    $ find -L /usr/local/bin/ -lname /usr/local/texlive/*/bin/* | xargs -r rm

    $ rm -rf /usr/{,local}/share/texmf*