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Re: Problem with cibimos font



Hi Sami, hi Simon,

I think this is a problem in cibimos.mf in circ-tex.

Sami Kivistö <skkivist@cc.hut.fi> wrote:

> So, for other fonts like cidiod it seems that dpi -value and mag have a
> linear ratio 600, but not for cibimos. For cibimos the relationship is
> non-linear, like that:
>
> dpi  600 <---> mag 1
> dpi  864 <---> mag 1+120/600
> dpi  973 <---> mag 1+164/600
> dpi 1244 <---> mag 1+264/600
>
>
> Maybe circ-tex should be aware of that detail, so it could make the
> fonts correctly, also for cibimos, so transistors could be viewed.
>
> mktexpk uses the program mf-nowin to create a gf-font. The reason
> mktexpk didn't work for cibimos is that the output file of mf-nowin
> doen't match the mag value:
>
>
>
> fourier:~/tex# mf-nowin -progname=mf "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+264/600; nonstopmode; input cibimos"
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>
> The output is cibimos.1244gf, not cibimos.864gf, so mktexpk can't
> convert it to cibimos.864pk.
>
> The related packages i have installed on Debian are:
>
> circ-tex_1.0f.0-1_all.deb
> tetex-bin_2.0.2-31_i386.deb

The problem still exists with the versions in sid.  I know less about
Metafont than Sami, but it seems to me his analysis is correct, and the
changes must be made somewhere in the font files in circ-tex.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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