mktexpk

[Bob Howlett]

I am now very happy but totally confused.

It seems that I have suffered for not following the standard
settings. I had all the exe files in \texroot\bin instead
of \texroot\bin\win32, since it annoys me having an unnecessary
extra directory level. This apparently confuses some programs,
for when I re-created win32 and shifted everything into it,
mktexpk was able to run metafont.

I then spent a long while fruitlessly searching for information
on what what to do if you want to alter the locations of
the executables.

However, in the end I just moved them back to \texroot\bin
thinking that having gsftopk make the pk files would be adequate
for my purposes.

But now by magic maketexpk can run metafont!
I must have changed something, but I don't know what.

Bob


Fabrice POPINEAU wrote:
> 
> > I would have thought that Metafont ought to be the first choice, since
> > the
> > type 1 versions of the standard TeX fonts are copied from the metafont
> > produced versions -- although I am not claiming to be able to detect any
> > difference.
> 
> Thomas Esser put the type1 choice first in teTeX, so is fpTeX since it
> is the same texmf tree.
> 
> > But anyway, to test this I deleted cmr10.720pk and commented
> > out the line in bsr.map referring to cmr10, and ran windvi on some
> > file that needed the font. Metafont did not run: the font was not made.
> > After uncommenting the line in bsr.map, gsftopk made the font.
> 
> Yes, something is wrong. How does dvips behave in the same situation?
> If kpathsea can't find the file, it will try to build it.
> 
> Fabrice