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The `char2path` Package
=======================

The `char2path` package provides a LaTeX package for converting characters into TikZ paths.

Overview
--------

The package provides the `\chartopath` and `\chartoclip` macro

    \chartopath [<keys>] {<string>}
    \chartoclip [<keys>] {<string>}

to print Ti*k*Z paths for characters in a string.

See `char2path.pdf` for more. Happy TeXing!

Generate `tikz path` from font
---
First, install the dependencies:
```shell
cd resources/SVG/font2svg
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Next, define the following constants:
```python
FONT_FOLDER = "../../Fonts/"
FONT_NAME = "lmmono10-regular.otf"
FONT_ALIAS = 'lmm'
```

Finally, run the Python script below:
``` shell
python font2path.py
```

Issues
------

The issue tracker for `char2path` is currently located
[on GitHub](https://github.com/zongpingding/char2path/issues).

Build status
------------

This project uses [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions)
as a hosted continuous integration service. For each commit, the build status
is tested using the current release of TeX Live.

_Current build status:_ ![build status](https://github.com/zongpingding/char2path/actions/workflows/main.yaml/badge.svg?branch=main)

References
----------

\[1\] https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern/download

\[2\] https://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html

Copyright and License
---------------------

Copyright (C) 2023-2025 by zongpingding <[zongpingding5@outlook.com](mailto:zongpingding5@outlook.com)> and
Mingyu Xia <[myhsia@outlook.com](mailto:myhsia@outlook.com)>

This package's data is converted from
[Latin Modern family](https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern),
which is based on the Computer Modern fonts released into public domain by
AMS (1997). It's under the license of
**[The GUS Font License (GFL)](https://ctan.org/license/gfl)**.

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), either version 1.3c of
this license or (at your option) any later version.
The latest version of this license is in

    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
version 2008 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.

The Current Maintainer of this work is **zongpingding** and **Mingyu Xia**.