[OS X TeX] Conversion of Latin Modern to OTF

[Gerben Wierda]

On 12 Feb 2005, at 22:25, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 12 févr. 05, à 10:02, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>
>> I just ran a configure only on my setup and it converted when the 
>> directory was not available. It does need fontforge to be available 
>> for conversion and I once ran into a copied over fontforge that 
>> turned out to be X11-dependent and the system had no X11 installed.
>>
>> Check the subprocess output for clues.
>
> I tried Configure only and this time it worked. Could it be caused by 
> the fact that I has installed all the i-Packages listed on TeXShop's 
> page in sequence (in this order):
>
>
> 	• 	 FreeType 2
> 	• 	 libwmf
> 	• 	 Ghostscript 8
> 	• 	 ImageMagick
> 	• 	 FontForge
> 	• 	 TeX
>
> without quitting i-Installer or even closing the window of each 
> i-Package in between?

Quitting or closing has no influence.

> Or by the fact that FreeType and FontForge were installed from 
> gwyale-experimental.iid, while TeX was installed from gwrelative.iid?

That could be if a newer fontforge has a different way of reporting the 
version.

> On another matter, I've noticed several times there are circumstances 
> when the window for setting TeX ownership doesn't always pop-up when 
> running a Configure. I'm not sure, but I've got the impression this is 
> when the "Everything" button is pressed, when asked to select the 
> configuration steps, instead of selecting all the steps one by one 
> manually.

It was an omission in the configure script, thanks for reporting. It 
will be fixed when the next update is uploaded.

G
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