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 TikZ paths for characters in a string.

See char2path.pdf for more. Happy TeXing!

Generate tikz path from font

First, install the dependencies:

cd resources/SVG/font2svg
pip install -r requirements.txt

Next, define the following constants:

FONT_FOLDER = "../../Fonts/"
FONT_NAME = "lmmono10-regular.otf"
FONT_ALIAS = 'lmm'

Finally, run the Python script below:

python font2path.py

Issues

The issue tracker for char2path is currently located on GitHub.

Build status

This project uses GitHub 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:

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> and Mingyu Xia <myhsia@outlook.com>

This package's data is converted from Latin Modern family, 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).

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.