[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: newbie question
- To: r.m.b.lindgren@usit.uio.no, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: newbie question
- From: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:14:44 +0100
Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren:
> actually, I'm not precisely a newbie - I've used fontinst on an off
> since it was first announced. however, the discrepancies between the
> program and the written documentation have always been puzzling.
> if I do (in version 1.801)
> \input fontinst.sty
> \installfonts
> \latinfamily{ptm}{}
> \bye
> the results are _nothing_. if I precede the \latinfamily invocation
> with \fromafm{ptmr8r} (etc.), the mtx files are generated and
> \latinfamily does its stuff. in fact, I've never had any success with
> the do-it-all-macros.
I think the documentation is right, but the results strongly depens
on which files are found in your search path. In recent teTeX-0.9
distributions, fontinst.ini is used to dump a fontinst format file,
and the TEXINPUTS.fontinst search path does include TEXMF/fonts/afm
as well as TEXMF/tex/fontinst//.
If the AFM files are found, the result of the above fontinst run
will be OK, but if not, the results will indeed be nothing but a
bunch of near-empty files.
Hope this explains it.
Cheers, Ulrik.