[OS X TeX] Installation of informal math fonts

[Christof Janssen]

Thanks, that made my day.
I have missed to move the two enc files cm.enc  and mv.enc in the  
appropriate directory. Now, everything is working just perfect -  
thanks again for all who gave advice.

Christof
Am 6. Sep 2005 um 15:26 schrieb Gary L. Gray:

>
> On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:52 AM, Christof Janssen wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am not at all familiar with the internals of latex packages. I  
>> tried to install the ifmath fonts of Micropress on my G4 PB  
>> running under OS 10.4 using Gerben Wierdas tetex.  I tried to  
>> follow both, the hints that are given by Micropress and the  
>> article of Bruno Voisin about "Installing Fonts for Latex on OS  
>> X". Accordingly I created tfm/micropress/ifmath/, type1/micropress/ 
>> ifmath, afm/ifmath and even /pfm/micropress/ifmath subdirectories  
>> in my local ~/Library/texmf/fonts folder. I also put the provided  
>> (Micropress) map file and the fd files in ~/Library/texmf/dvips/ 
>> ifmath and ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/ifmath . VF fonts were not  
>> provided and I didn't install them. First of all I am confused  
>> that the Micropress fonts don't seem to follow the standard naming  
>> conventions for tex fonts. Is this the case and is that important ?
>>
>> Something must be wrong, nevertheless, because I cannot run dvips  
>> properly. The log file reports that the font files have not been  
>> found:
>>
>> Warning: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ 
>> pdflatex (file ifmi1
>> 0): Font ifmi10 at 600 not found
>>
>> Warning: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ 
>> pdflatex (file ifrm1
>> 0cm): Font ifrm10cm at 600 not found
>>
>> Warning: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ 
>> pdflatex (file ifex1
>> 0): Font ifex10 at 600 not found
>>
>> Is anyone having experience with the installation of these fonts  
>> and twilling to provide some help ? Any comment will be appreciated.
>>
>
> Two things:
>
> Did you look at the thread from July 28-29 at:
>
> <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/2005/MacOSX- 
> TeX_Digest_07-29-05.html>
>
> I successfully installed these fonts and I know almost nothing  
> about installing fonts for LaTeX. :-)
>
> In addition, please don't start a new thread by replying to a  
> message from a different thread. It messes up everything in  
> threaded mail clients (e.g., Apple's Mail).
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- Gary
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