mfonts.tex

mfonts.tex

[David Arnold]

Hans et al,

OK. I'd like to start with mfonts.tex. I am working with GWTeX on  
Tiger and have just updated to all of Gerben's latest stuff, so I am  
as current as I can be with that distribution.

I do have Ruby on this Mac.

So, hold my hand and and guide me through the compile stage. The  
first problem, as I see it, is to get the expected organizational  
tree for these manuals For example, in mfonts.tex, we have:

\environment ../allkind/mcommon.tex

So, should I do some sort of cvs thing and check out all these  
manuals and documents?

That seems to be the first issue to address.

David Arnold
College of the Redwoods
Mathematics Department
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 476-4222
http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

Re: mfonts.tex

[Hans Hagen]

David Arnold wrote:

> Hans et al,
>
> OK. I'd like to start with mfonts.tex. I am working with GWTeX on  
> Tiger and have just updated to all of Gerben's latest stuff, so I am  
> as current as I can be with that distribution.
>
> I do have Ruby on this Mac.
>
> So, hold my hand and and guide me through the compile stage. The  
> first problem, as I see it, is to get the expected organizational  
> tree for these manuals For example, in mfonts.tex, we have:
>
> \environment ../allkind/mcommon.tex
>
> So, should I do some sort of cvs thing and check out all these  
> manuals and documents?
>
> That seems to be the first issue to address.

you need a proper subversion client; steve peter told me he had that 
running on hsi mac so maybe he has some recommendation; one you have 
that you can connect to svn.pragma-ade.com and check out the "manuals" tree

the svn tree is readonly, so info needs to be fed back using diff's or 
patch files to me

on windows there is tortoise svn which hooks nicely into the file 
handler; i dunno (yet) about the mac (need to look into it)

Hans

Re: mfonts.tex

[Steve Peter]

On Nov 21, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> you need a proper subversion client; steve peter told me he had  
> that running on hsi mac so maybe he has some recommendation; one  
> you have that you can connect to svn.pragma-ade.com and check out  
> the "manuals" tree

The easiest thing to do is grab the pre-built binaries from http:// 
metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/. It's a command-line  
program, but I believe there is a GUI written in Java if you require  
that.

Steve

Re: mfonts.tex

[David Arnold]

Hans, Steve, et al,

OK. I have subversion client installed. Now what?

What commands will download what I need?

On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> David Arnold wrote:
>
>> Hans et al,
>>
>> OK. I'd like to start with mfonts.tex. I am working with GWTeX on   
>> Tiger and have just updated to all of Gerben's latest stuff, so I  
>> am  as current as I can be with that distribution.
>>
>> I do have Ruby on this Mac.
>>
>> So, hold my hand and and guide me through the compile stage. The   
>> first problem, as I see it, is to get the expected organizational   
>> tree for these manuals For example, in mfonts.tex, we have:
>>
>> \environment ../allkind/mcommon.tex
>>
>> So, should I do some sort of cvs thing and check out all these   
>> manuals and documents?
>>
>> That seems to be the first issue to address.
>
> you need a proper subversion client; steve peter told me he had  
> that running on hsi mac so maybe he has some recommendation; one  
> you have that you can connect to svn.pragma-ade.com and check out  
> the "manuals" tree
>
> the svn tree is readonly, so info needs to be fed back using diff's  
> or patch files to me
>
> on windows there is tortoise svn which hooks nicely into the file  
> handler; i dunno (yet) about the mac (need to look into it)
>
> Hans
>
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David Arnold
College of the Redwoods
Mathematics Department
Eureka, CA 95501
(707) 476-4222
http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

Re: mfonts.tex

[Adam Lindsay]

David Arnold said this at Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:58:39 -0800:

>Hans, Steve, et al,
>
>OK. I have subversion client installed. Now what?
>
>What commands will download what I need?

Presuming you're in a directory where you want the stuff (and svn is in
your path, etc):

 svn checkout svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals

(the first time: it creates a "manuals" subdirectory and populates it
with further subdirectories from the server. It also makes a hidden
"manuals/.svn" directory with enough metadata that you can forget the
URL and update with simply: )

 svn update

(all subsequent times)

(parenthetically,)
adam
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Re: mfonts.tex

[David Arnold]

Hans, Steve, Adam et al,

OK. Subversion installaed. Download the manual tree. I am in the  
fonts subdirectory with:

fonts $ ls
demofont.afm    demofont.map    demofont.tex    mfonts.tex       
typeface.tex
demofont.dat    demofont.pfb    mfonts.rb       showfont.tex

Baby steps. But successful ones. Just the way I like to work. :-)

Now, I want to compile mfonts.tex. Ruby is on my system (Mac Tiger).

fonts $ which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby

I am looking in mfonts.rb:

fonts $ cat mfonts.rb
# usage: runtools mfonts.rb
#
# copyright=pragma-ade readme=readme.pdf licence=cc-gpl

job = Job.new

# ["", "--sla=.167", "--ext=1.50", "--cap=.750"].each do |option|
     # job.execute_command("texmfstart texfont --ve=test --co=test -- 
ma --in #{option} demofont")
# end

job.execute_command("texmfstart texfont --ve=test --co=test --ma --in  
demofont.dat")

I imagine this is where I should start?  I try:

fonts $ ruby mfonts.rb
mfonts.rb:5: uninitialized constant Job (NameError)

I know little to nothing about Ruby, and less about texmfstart.

So, what do I do next?

On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> David Arnold said this at Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:58:39 -0800:
>
>
>> Hans, Steve, et al,
>>
>> OK. I have subversion client installed. Now what?
>>
>> What commands will download what I need?
>>
>
> Presuming you're in a directory where you want the stuff (and svn  
> is in
> your path, etc):
>
>  svn checkout svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals
>
> (the first time: it creates a "manuals" subdirectory and populates it
> with further subdirectories from the server. It also makes a hidden
> "manuals/.svn" directory with enough metadata that you can forget the
> URL and update with simply: )
>
>  svn update
>
> (all subsequent times)
>
> (parenthetically,)
> adam
> -- 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>  Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept.     atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk
>  Lancaster University, InfoLab21        +44(0)1524/510.514
>  Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK             Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>

David