Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX

Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX

[Nigel King]

Guys,
Gerben Wierda has done an excellent job producing i-Installer for the Mac
OSX which works with LaTeX etc very well. It is clear that many people are
being introduced to TeX on the Mac now using this installer.

Unfortunately there appears to be one problem with ConTeXt which is texfont.
The tetex structure that Gerben has chosen is for the main fonts to be in

/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts

Texfont will not recognise this location and the fonts in it and I suspect
it is because of the full stop in texmf.tetex

Evidence for this is in the following

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/

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

And yet 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm
Exists

Are there any other possible reasons for this problem

I have had some success now with fonts using adobekb.tex but the situation
is not wholly satisfactory and I think I would really like texfont to work.
-- 
Nigel

Re: Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:16 PM 3/28/2003 +0000, Nigel King wrote:
>Guys,
>Gerben Wierda has done an excellent job producing i-Installer for the Mac
>OSX which works with LaTeX etc very well. It is clear that many people are
>being introduced to TeX on the Mac now using this installer.
>
>Unfortunately there appears to be one problem with ConTeXt which is texfont.
>The tetex structure that Gerben has chosen is for the main fonts to be in
>
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts

can you try --fontroot=..... ?

Hans
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl
                       Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
  tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf
                     documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX

[Nigel King]

Hans,

> can you try --fontroot=..... ?
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

And yet 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm
Exists

TIA
-- 
Nigel

Re: Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:14:07 +0000
Nigel King <king@dircon.co.uk> wrote:

> > can you try --fontroot=..... ?
> 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
> 
> And yet 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm
> Exists

i've never used texfont but could you try 
--fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/

since
 (1) this is IMO *the* font-root
and
 (2) according to the err msg,
      /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/../fonts/afm/urw/courier
     is equal to
      /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier

Jens

Re: Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX

[Nigel King]

Jens,
Thanks for this input
> --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/
I had tried that before (and now) with the same error 'unknown subpath'

-- 
Nigel