Re: incomplete ec/tc fonts in tetex-extra of potato(and woody)
From: Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: incomplete ec/tc fonts in tetex-extra of potato(and woody)
Date: 12 Aug 2000 12:14:38 +0200
> As far as I can tell, mktexmf should be able to generate those files
> when they are needed. Run for example
>
> mktexpk --dpi 600 --bdpi 600 --mag 1 --mfmode ljfour ecui0600
>
> to see whether this works.
You are right, it works and generates necessary *.mf files.
Well, I encountered this problem when I was pdflatex'ing maint-guide.tex
with a bit modification to use ec/tc fonts. And my system had ecbx1095.mf
and ecbx1095.tfm but not ecbx1095.400pk at the time (I used mode=sparcptr
and dpi=400) then "pdflatex maint-guide" said as follows;
Warning: pdflatex (file ecbx1095): Font ecbx1095 at 400 not found
(Of course 'ecbx1095' is only an example and there were many more
ec* fonts in the same situation.)
So I thought there was incomleteness of ec/tc fonts in Debian but
this was completely my misunderstanding.
I deleted all ec/tc related files from /var/spool/texmf and did
try again "pdflatex maint-guide" then it worked correctly;
------------------------------
(maint-guide.tockpathsea: Running mktextfm ecbx1095
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=sparcptr; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecbx1095
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecbx1095
mktexmf: /var/spool/texmf/source/jknappen/ec/ecbx1095.mf: successfully generated.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
(/var/spool/texmf/source/jknappen/ec/ecbx1095.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exbase.mf)
...
(snip)
...
Ok [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57])
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/exrligtb.mf
Ok) ) ) )
Font metrics written on ecbx1095.tfm.
Output written on ecbx1095.400gf (256 characters, 37808 bytes).
Transcript written on ecbx1095.log.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
mktextfm: /var/spool/texmf/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecbx1095.tfm: successfully generated.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
------------------------------
and every necessary *.tfm, *.mf, *.400pk are generated automatically
and there is no problem at all.
Very sorry for my misunderstanding and thanks for your suggestion.
Now I have few more question:
- We have Type1 CM fonts (BlueSky fonts) but it seems there is
no Type1 EC/TC fonts. Is this right and is this not inconvenient?
- I can not found so useful documents on PDFTeX/LaTeX. I found
pdftexman.pdf and pdfTeX-FAQ.pdf in /usr/share/doc/texmf/pdftex/base/
but they did not provide so much information.
For example they did not contain any information on the above question
(i.e. Type1 ec/tc fonts) nor how to use PK fonts with PDFTeX/LaTeX.
Well, I am completely new to PDFTeX/LaTeX so I am looking for
any information on this.
(I might be on vacation and could not reply so rapidly for a while.)
Best Regards, 2000.8.13
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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