[fptex] mktextfm

[Bob Howlett]

Hi,

I have a tex file that uses the font cmfi10. I have installed
fptex 0.4. It happens that the file cm.zip that comes with fptex 0.4
does not contain the file cmfi10.tfm although it contains the
tfm's for the other cm fonts. This should have been no problem
since when I tex'd my file mktextfm was called. However, it
did not succeed in creating the tfm file. Metafont was called with
and incorrect command line
mf \mode:=; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmfi10
I was forced to run metafont myself.
In my mktex.cnf file I have
:
${MT_FEATURES=dosnames:nomode:stripsupplier:striptypeface:appendonlydir:varfonts:fontmaps}
: ${MODE=ljfour}
: ${BDPI=600}
I understood that the "nomode" in MT_FEATURES merely has to do
with the naming of the directories in which the font files go,
whereas the MODE=ljfour line is meant to determine the mode that
metafont uses. However, it appears that mktextfm is using MT_FEATURES
to decide what to pass to Metafont for the mode. At least, when I
changed
my mktex.cnf to
:
${MT_FEATURES=dosnames:ljfour:stripsupplier:striptypeface:appendonlydir:varfonts:fontmaps}
: ${MODE=ljfour}
: ${BDPI=600}
it worked.
Maybe my analysis of this is wrong, but I think there is some
problem with mktextfm.

Bob Howlett