Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat

[Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>]

On Wednesday, Aug 6, 2003, at 22:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Nigel King wrote:

> Hi,
> I am posting this message I posted to the 'OS X TeX' group earlier 
> this year
> relating to the same issue that Mathew is raising. I had no luck then 
> but am
> hoping for more success now there are two of us.
>
> Hans says
> 'this is under discussion now with thomas/staszek/etc: has to do with 
> urw
> metrics not being in tetex by default (they are on tex live)'
>
> However, Gerben's i-Installer installs them here in a different 
> location
> than normal. (I think these are the only pair of files that are 
> necessary
> for utmb8a to work.)
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/times/utmb8a.afm
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmb8a.pfb
>
> I believe that the problem is merely with texroot as I state below. 
> Further
> evidence for this is that it nearly all worked before Gerben 
> rearranged the
> directories.

Yes, this could be. If texexec or any ConTeXt tool does not use 
texmf.cnf values but has hardcoded ideas about where to find stuff 
(texmf), then the rearranging of the texmf directories could have an 
influence. Hans can probably say if this is possibly the case. After 
all, the rearranging had no ill effects whatsoever on TeX or LaTeX, 
because where files are is governed by texmf.cnf and that was adapted 
as well to reflect the changed situation. If there is hardcoded stuff 
in texexec that is playing a role (I am guessing here), making it 
dynamic by calls to kpsewhich is a good solution.

For the rest, the content of texmf.tetex is created by Thomas Esser, 
not me. And there you will find not a complete set of URW but an Adobe 
set and thatis what the discussion is also about. hans is right in 
stating that.

> Earlier message.......
> Hi,
> Some of my previous font problems here were due to not enabling all of 
> the
> font map file in the final configuration of the install. I think 
> someone
> else had the same problem. Adobekb.tex is now helping me well, however 
> I am
> finding it necessary still to run with the Context font system for some
> documents for the moment, and for this texfont has to run to create the
> various font files.
>
> Running the single command
> texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto
> Should work but returns
>     processing aborted : unknown tex root  /sw/share/texmf/

Well, for one thing, this seems to indicate that you also are using a 
Fink-installed TeX and that may also complicate matters. Fink forces 
itself at the beginning of your PATH and will therefore be found before 
my distribution whjen called from the command line.

> Clearly texroot is set incorrectly so forcing that
> texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto
> --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/
> Should work but returns
>     processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/courier

If you are calling Fink's TeX and using my texmf trees, it is not clear 
that this would work.

> And yet
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm
> Exists
> This process worked in the v2 version of the i-installer indeed still 
> works
> when reinstalled.

v2 has nothing to do with TeX but only with the i-Installer major 
release which has been around for, what, 3/4 of a year or so?

> I am presuming that the new problem is because of the texmf.tetex that 
> the
> texfont perl script is now not able to understand. Perl is beyond my 
> small
> brain!

If that is the case, texfont is a problem because it hard codes 
locations where texmf.cnf is the source for locations and kpsewhich is 
the way to find out about them.

G
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