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`-p': Changing PostScript encodings
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  By default, Afm2tfm uses the encoding it finds in the AFM file.  You
can specify a different PostScript encoding with `-p PS-ENC'.  This
makes the raw TFM file (the one output by Afm2tfm) have the encoding
specified in the encoding file PS-ENC.  Any ligature or kern
information specified in PS-ENC is ignored by Afm2tfm, since ligkern
info is always omitted from the raw TFM.

  If you use this option, you must also arrange to download PS-ENC as
part of any document that uses this font.  You do this by adding a line
like the following one to `psfonts.map' (*note psfonts.map::.):
     zpopr Optima "MyEncoding ReEncodeFont" <myenc.enc

  Using `-p' is the only way to access characters in a PostScript font
that are neither encoded in the AFM file nor constructed from other
characters.  For instance, Adobe's `Times-Roman' font contains the
extra characters `trademark' and `registered' (among others); these can
only be accessed through such a PostScript reencoding.

  In fact, the `8r' base encoding used for the current PostScript font
distribution (available at `ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/psfonts.tar.gz') does
do this reencoding, for precisely this reason.