[pdftex] RSMoroma Font usage ?

[Bob Howlett]

You didn't say where you got the files.
Using Google I found a zip file with  rsmoroma.pfb .ttf .afm and .pfm
The afm file was useless as it contained no information on the
sizes of the glyphs. I tried running pfm2afm on the pfm file
but the resulting afm file was just the same. However,
running ttf2afm on the ttf file produced a satisfactory afm file,
and then afm2tfm gave me a good tfm file, and then I
could actually use the font (or would be able to if I could
speak the language!)

Bob Howlett

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Mark Wroth wrote:

> I've been trying to get the RSMoroma font installed and working with 
> pdftex, so far without much success, and would appreciate some 
> assistance.
>
> RSMoroma is a tengwar font, and I have the afm, tfm, pfb, ttf, vf, and 
> a ursmoroma.fd files.
>
> I have added a map file with the line
>
> rsmoroma RSMoroma <rsmoroma.pfb
>
> (I've also tried "rsmoroma <rsmoroma.pfb" and "rsmoroma <<rsmoroma.pfb").
>
> This map file is being read by pdftex -- when I add a similar line to 
> cm.map, I get a warning that there's a duplicate definition.
>
> However, pdftex appears not to recognize this as a PS font.  The TeX 
> output includes an attempt on the part of the installation to run 
> MetaFont (which fails, as there is no mf source :-)
>
> The test document is:
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{pxfonts}
> \newcommand\tiwfamily{\usefont{U}{rsmoroma}{m}{n}}
> \DeclareTextFontCommand{\texttiw}{\tiwfamily}
> \begin{document}
>
> \Huge
>
> Les nombres 0--9 : \texttiw{0123456789}
>
> Etoile : \texttiw{elen}
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> \end{document}
> (which came with the font files). The main part of the interactive 
> error is
> (c:/usr/web2c/share/texmf/tex/latex/contrib/pxfonts/ot1pxr.fd) 
> (./ursmoroma.fd)
>
> Overfull \hbox (106.842pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 9--10
> []/pxr at 24.88pt/Les nom-bres 0--9 : /rsmoroma at 24.88pt/0123456789
> [1{c:/usr/web2c/share/texmf/pdftex/rsmoroma.map}{c:/usr/web2c/share/texmf/pdfte 
>
> x/base/cm.map}This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
> (Fatal base file error; I'm stymied)
> mktextfm: Running mf "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input 
> rrsmoroma"
> mktextfm: warning: can't open log file rrsmoroma.log.
> mktextfm: `mf "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input rrsmoroma"' 
> failed.
>
> ! Font \csname\endcsname=rrsmoroma at 24.88pt not loadable: Metric 
> (TFM) file n
> ot found.
> <to be read again>
>                    \endgroup
>
>
>
> The installation is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806 
> (Web2c 7.3.3.1) running under Windows XP-Pro
>
> Mark B. Wroth
> <mark at astrid.upland.ca.us>
>
> Mark B. Wroth
> <mark at astrid.upland.ca.us>
>
> Mark B. Wroth
> <mark at astrid.upland.ca.us>
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