problem using DC fonts in latex
Hello all,
I have upgraded my Debian system using latex_2e-7 and mflib_1.0-8 as
described in an earlier message I read from this mailing list.
However, when I tried to use T1 font encoding, I got a lot of errors
regarding font availability.
Running latex on a document that requires DC fonts (\usepackage[T1]{fontenc})
generates errors when it looks for fonts to be included in the document.
I don't have exact logs to put in my mail (I test new packages at my home, not
at my office, sorry :-( ) but I can try to explain what latex do:
when loading fontenc, latex selects T1 encoding by then load the upright font
at the desired size (10, 11 or 12pt, I tried all of them).
Name of font (for 10pt, for instance) is dcr1000.mf.
However, this font isn't available in my system, then latex run MakeTeXTFM to
build it and store a new description in /var/spool/texmf/fonts/source.
In the followind step, latex (or maybe MakeTeXTFM ?) run MakeTeXMF on that
source to generate a bitmap font. However it doesn't find the font.
Apparently, /var/spool/texmf/fonts/source isn't in the default MFINPUTS path :-(
Therefore I added it and reran latex (by setenv MFINPUTS <thisfontpath>:).
Latex then generate all the fonts I needed in my document but all are ugly
under xdvi (characters strokes are very, very thin).
Apparently, this new distribution uses DC fonts v1.2 but the old one
(latex_2e-4) uses a previous version.
I heard that I should also upgrade fonts. Should it fix my problem ?
I also heard that mf program should be designed to run with DC-1.2 fonts :-\
BTW, I didn't find a newer package than mfbasfnt_1.0-3 and textfm_1.0-3 that
I already have installed.
Does a new font package will be planned ?
Thank in advance for all replies I could receive.
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