[Fontinst] msam.etx

[cfrees at imapmail.org]

On Sun 25th Jul, 2010 at 17:13, Lars Hellström seems to have written:

> Dr. Clea F. Rees skrev:
>> tex 
>
> I presume you mean fontinst? Going
>
>  tex msam.etx
>
> has never been supposed to work, even though
>
>  latex msam.etx
>
> should work.

I did mean tex, but not tex msam.etx. I was using msam.etx indirectly
by calling it from another file e.g. tex yirm-drv.tex where this file
loads fontinst and calls msam.etx.

>> seems to choke on the encoding file msam.etx distributed with
>> fontinst. This appears to be because it interprets a line of commentary
>> literally. 
>
> Yes, the problem seems to be that both \metrics and \encoding get \let to \fi 
> (by \inputmtx and \inputetx respectively), so either one will be seen as 
> beginning the body of an encoding or metrics file. This has however been the 
> case throughout the 1.x series of fontinst, so apparently it is the markup 
> that is buggy.
>
>> Commenting this line out solves the problem:
>> 
>> --- msam.etx    2006-01-12 23:45:36.000000000 +0000
>> +++ msam.etx    2010-07-22 12:02:41.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>>  like
>>  \begin{quote}
>>    \textellipsis
>> -  \verb|,\metrics\generalpltomtx{msam10}{msam10}{pl}{msam},msam10,|%
>> +%  \verb|,\metrics\generalpltomtx{msam10}{msam10}{pl}{msam},msam10,|%
>>    \textellipsis
>>  \end{quote}
>>  in the \textit{file list} argument of \verb+\installfont+, or generate
>> 
>> However, I'm sure this isn't the best way to do it. I assume there is a
>> way of getting fontinst to regard this part of the commentary as a
>> comment so that it is still typeset as part of the encoding's
>> documentation. I'm just not sure how to do that so I did this just to
>> get it working.
>
> Since it is the \metrics token that is troublesome, a work-around is to split 
> it between two \verb's, like so:
>
>  \textellipsis\verb|,\m|%
>  \verb|etrics\generalpltomtx{msam10}{msam10}{pl}{msam},msam10,|%
>  \textellipsis
>
> However, the trick being described has since been rolled into a proper 
> feature, so the comment should really say
>
>  \textellipsis\verb|,msam10 encoding msam,|\textellipsis
>
> I'll have to fix that (and msbm.etx, which has the same bug).

Although I don't experience the same issue with msbm.etx which seems
odd now you point this out.

Thanks very much,
cfr