Re: fonts

[Henning Hraban Ramm <angerweit@gmx.net>]

Am Dienstag 22 Januar 2002 11:15 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> [forwarded, please use an address known to the list]

I hope I got the right one now... (very uncomfortable this way!)

> >BTW: Is it "normal" that afm2tfm tends to crash on Win(NT)?
> not that i know

I catched the error: The font that I tried to install was made with 
Fontographer on a Mac, and the AFM had Mac-linefeeds.
Corrected it with a little bit of Perl, and installing works... (But I needed 
a couple of hours to find this.)

Today I was tinkering around with another font installation. I've the 
impression that the typescript concept doesn't work like it should:

(TeX Live 6 with pdfeTeX 1.0 unofficial, latest beta of ConTeXt, WinNT 4)

-- Runtime loading of fontmaps seems to have no effect -- pdftex finds fonts 
only if the map is in pdftex.cfg

-- \definetypeface with 6 parameters works, but not the definition via 
"nested" typescripts -- it ends up with "TeX capacity exceeded" after a long 
list of messages, that look like a recursion.

I'll test it more accurately tomorrow (left my laptop at work).

Greetlings from the Hraban! ;-)