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add prerequisites list to README.txt (for Windows platform at least)
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GerHobbelt committed Sep 19, 2018
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# Required bundles / packages / tools

For Windows:

- W32TeX installed in /c/W32TeX/
- mftrace
- perl
- python 2.7
- Java Runtime (for batik-ttf2svg.jar : https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/tools/font-converter.html)
- batik (https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.html)
- fontforge
- fonttools - installed via python's installer: `pip install fonttools'
as you'll need the TTX tool.

See also: https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools

- fontforge and W32TeX binaries in your PATH environment variable = search path:

PATH=$PATH:/c/Python27:/c/Python27/Scripts:/c/W32TeX/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/FontForgeBuilds/bin:/c/W32TeX/bin

- to make splitFont.py work in OpenTypeMath:

+ pip install lxml
+ check out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23365299/how-to-import-fontforge-to-python-in-windows-7

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