Generation of a TeX font with fontforge

dejavubb.sty

%% Stolen from the bbold package.
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{dejavubb}[2011/10/08 dejavubb package]
\newcommand{\bbfamily}{\fontencoding{T1}\fontfamily{dejavubb}\selectfont}
\newcommand{\textbb}[1]{{\bbfamily#1}}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathbb}{T1}{dejavubb}{m}{n}
\endinput

generator.tex

\input fontinst.sty
\latinfamily{fdj}{}
\bye

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import glob
import os
import os.path
import subprocess
import sys

import fontforge


### Definition of constants
FNT_NAME = 'dejavubb'
FNT_BERRY_NAME = 'fdjr8a'
FNT_EXTENSION = 'pfb'
FNT_CONF_FILE = FNT_NAME + '.cfg'
FNT_MAP_FILE = FNT_NAME + '.map'

PATH_PREFIX = os.path.join('texmf', 'fonts')
PATH_SUFFIX = os.path.join('public', FNT_NAME)

file_placement = {
    '*.afm':    'afm',
    '*.fd':     'latex',
    '*.pf*':    'type1',
    '*.tfm':    'tfm',
    '*.vf':     'vf',
    }


### Auxiliary functions
def create_type1(font_source):
    '''Create Type 1 font from the source font.'''
    font = fontforge.open(font_source)
    font.generate(FNT_BERRY_NAME + '.pfb')
    font.close()

def call_fontinst():
    '''Create tex-specific font files.'''
    subprocess.call(['tex', 'tex/generator'])
    for f in glob.iglob('*.vpl'):
        subprocess.call(['vptovf', f])
    for f in glob.iglob('*.pl'):
        subprocess.call(['pltotf', f])

def create_texmf():
    '''Create the texmf directory tree.'''
    for component in ['afm', 'tfm', 'type1', 'latex', 'vf']:
        os.makedirs(os.path.join(PATH_PREFIX, component, PATH_SUFFIX))
    os.makedirs(os.path.join(PATH_PREFIX, 'map', 'dvips', FNT_NAME))

def populate_texmf():
    '''Move files to appropriate subdirs of the texmf tree.'''
    for what, where in file_placement.iteritems():
        for file in glob.iglob(what):
            os.rename(file, os.path.join(PATH_PREFIX, where, PATH_SUFFIX, file))

def clean_aux_files():
    globs = ['*.vpl', '*.mtx', '*.pl', '*.log']
    for what in globs:
        for file in glob.iglob(what):
            os.unlink(file)
    
# print 'fdjr8r dejavubb " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <fdjr8a.pfb' \
#     > os.path.join(PATH_PREFIX, "map", "dvips", FNT_NAME, FNT_MAP_FILE)

# print "Map " + FNT_MAP_FILE > FNT_CONF_FILE

# user_dir = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join('~', '.texmf-config', 'updmap.d'))
# os.makedirs(user_dir)
# os.rename(FNT_CONF_FILE, os.path.join(user_dir, FNT_CONF_FILE))

# print "Don't forget to move the texmf directory to an appropriate place and, then,"
# print "to call 'update-updmap && updmap'."

if __name__ == "__main__":
    create_type1('sfd/dejavubb.sfd')
    call_fontinst()
    create_texmf()
    populate_texmf()
    clean_aux_files()