[tex-live] perl script to install a postscript font into texlive2008

[ivo welch]

dear robin---I understand, but I need to give it a try anyway *with* the 
Karl Berry naming translations, of course.  I have no choice: I need to 
get certain new fonts installed on my system.  and, yes, I wish I did 
not need it.

Note that I do not need all generality.  I want to stick to our texlive 
distribution and standard postscript fonts only.

of all the guides to font installation on the web (I found about 5), 
which is the most definitive and straightforward (least nuances for odd 
fonts)?  I need to be able to install one font from start to end, so 
that I can get started with some script.

regards,

/ivo



Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> ivo welch <ivo.welch at brown.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> has anyone created a (perl or other) script that
>> installs a postscript font into texlive (2008)?  I have tried to follow
>> two different installation instructions on the web (which is probably
>> what screwed me up), but so far no cigar.
>>     
>
> as you've been told on c.t.t (i think it was), if the answer were
> simple, such a script would already have been written.
>
> font installation (for use with dvips/pdftex/dvipdfm) is pretty
> nightmarish, and the matter's rendered worse by the file naming issue
> (you *really* don't want to use a font foundry's name for a pfb file,
> and you've already been told the value of using the standard berry
> scheme).
>
> robin
>   
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