Bug#63042: may be not a bug at all
> fontinst.sty seems to be broken in Potato as well as in Woody.
>
> When I follow the instructions in fontinst.dvi, and try to convert some
> Adobe fonts to virtual TeX fonts, fontinst gives an ``Extra \else.''
> error:
> | [bas@iasoon]/tmp/bla/test> tex fontinst.sty
> | This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> | (/usr/share/texmf/tex/fontinst/base/fontinst.sty
> | (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
> | No file fontinst.rc.
> | )
> | *\latinfamily{ptm}{} \bye
> | INFO> parse family <ptm><>
> | INFO> to make LaTeX font shape <ptm,m,n,> seek ptmr8r.mtx
> | INFO> run \transformfont <ptmr8r> from <ptmr8a>
> | (ptmr8a.afm
> | ! Extra \else.
> | \do_list ...\relax \expandafter \gobble_one \else
> | \expandafter
> | \identity_one...
I have never used fontinst but I tested the above problem
and found fontinst worked fine!
nsx:~/scr/tex/sample/fontinst$ tex fontinst.sty
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(fontinst.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
No file fontinst.rc.
)
*\latinfamily{ptm}{} \bye
INFO> parse family <ptm><>
INFO> to make LaTeX font shape <ptm,m,n,> seek ptmr8r.mtx
INFO> run \transformfont <ptmr8r> from <ptmr8a>
(ptmr8a.afm)
Metrics written on ptmr8a.mtx.
(ptmr8a.mtx)
Raw font written on ptmr8a.pl.
...
(snip; this is too long!)
...
INFO> to make LaTeX font shape <ptm,l,sc,c> seek ptmlc8rn.mtx
INFO> to make LaTeX font shape <ptm,l,sl,c> seek ptmlo8rn.mtx
INFO> to make LaTeX font shape <ptm,l,it,c> seek ptmli8rn.mtx
Font definitions written on 8rptm.fd.
Font definitions written on ot1ptm.fd.
Font definitions written on t1ptm.fd.
Font definitions written on ts1ptm.fd.
No pages of output.
Transcript written on fontinst.log.
I guess this is not a bug and *.afm of the reporter might
be broken.
My system is mainly potato;
hi tetex-base 1.0-10 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-bin 1.0.6-7 teTeX binary files
ii tetex-dev 1.0.6-7 kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX
ii tetex-doc 1.0.2-2 teTeX documentation
hi tetex-extra 1.0-10 extra teTeX library files
ii tetex-lib 1.0.7-2 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
hi tetex-nonfree 1.0-10 non-free teTeX library files
ii tetex-src 1.0-1 teTeX texmf source files
Best Regards, 2000.7.27
--
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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