Re: texfont - install family?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:30 PM 8/30/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 12:45 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>texfont can collect infro from dat files, but in your case you can:
>>
>>(1) copy the files to a path, say d:\fonts\adobe\myriad
>>
>>(2) go to that path
>>
>>(3) say
>>
>>texfont --en=texnansi --co=myriad --ve=adobe --weight=400 --width=600 
>>MyriadMM
>
>Right, but how do I deal with installing not just different weights, but 
>different widths?  In the end, in other words, I want:
>
>Myriad Regular                  --weight=400  --width=600
>Myriad italic                           --wei   ght=400  --width=600
>Myriad Bold                             --weight=600  --width=600
>Myriad Bold-Italic                      --weight=600  --width=600
>
>and...
>
>Myriad Regular Condensed        --weight=400  --width=400
>Myriad italic Condensed         --weight=400  --width=400
>Myriad Bold Condensed           --weight=600  --width=400
>Myriad Bold-Italic Condensed    --weight=600  --width=400
>
>I actually want to install a few more variations, so the batch script you 
>mentioned would be ideal, but as I said, I don't know how to write it.

just put lines into blabla.bat and run that file; add lines like:

....  --weight=%1 --width=%2

and run the script with

   blabla 400 600

(at least that works on win, dunno how to pass args in unix)

Hans
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