[OS X TeX] Problem Installing Ibycus4 Fonts

[Gerben Wierda]

On Sep 8, 2006, at 02:10 , K. Darcy Otto wrote:

> I'm having a lot of difficulty getting the Ibycus4 fonts working  
> properly with a new installation of MacTeX.  I keep getting a  
> Metafont error (see below).  Here is what I have done so far:
>
> 1. Moved the contents of the Ibycus pacjage (tex, doc and fonts  
> directories) to ~/Library/texmf
> 2. Updated tex database (sudo texhash ~/Library/texmf)
>
> At this point, the .tex document (with Greek in it) could be  
> generated by pdfTeX, but no Greek would be rendered.  So, I did the  
> following:
>
> 3. Edited /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/updmap.cfg, by  
> adding a line Map iby.map
> 4. Reread the map files: sudo updmap
> 5. Updated tex database (sudo texhash ~/Library/texmf)
>
> At this point, the Greek gets rendered, but I get a strange pause  
> and then error from Metafont:
>
> <---snip--->
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>
> (/Users/Darcy/Library/texmf/fonts/source/public/ibycus4/fibr849.mf
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/source/public/cm/ 
> cmbase.mf)kpathsea: Running mktexmf grbase
>
> ! I can't find file `grbase'.

grbase is not part of teTeX here MacTeX eventually is based on. So  
you need to install fonts/source/public/levy as well (and maybe more).

G

> l.3 if unknown grbase: input grbase
>                                     fi
> Please type another input file name
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.3 if unknown grbase: input grbase
>                                     fi
> Transcript written on fibr849.log.
> mktexpk: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600;  
> nonstopmode; input fibr849' failed.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>
> Warning: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex  
> (file fibr8
> 49): Font fibr849 at 600 not found
> <---snip--->
>
> The missfont.log file contains the following line:
>
> mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 fibr849
>
> Any help resolving this issue would be appreciated.
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