Re: font tryout

[Ville Voipio <vv@iki.fi>]

Hello!

I made a fresh MiKTeX installation and tried the URW font installation
hint given by Nigel King. My old MiKTeX installation was installed at
C:\Program Files\MiKTeX. The space in the path confused texfont, it
complained about "c:program" not found. Installing to d:/texmf removed
this complaint. (However, I'd love to keep my programs in the "program
files" folder, so this should be solved, as well.)

> texfont --encoding=ec  --batch type-tmf.dat

This produced a looooong list of errors. I took just one line from the
batch file to make this listing shorter:

  texfont --encoding=ec --ve=urw --co=times --so=auto

The output is pasted under this message. There are a few things which seem
slightyl bad:

1. The source path is "D:\texmf/fonts/afm/urw/times", i.e. both backslash
and the forward one are mixed (thanks, M$, for choosing \). This might
confuse something.

2. Possibly for this reason none of the utm*8a.pfb files was found. These
files do exist in d:\texmf\fonts\type1\urw\times

3. initexmf seems to dislike the command line options given by the script,
at least it shows its usage, which does not look so good.

4. Files ec-urw-xxx.map are created at d:\localtexmf\pdftex\config, and
they look good.

5. When I try to run the test file given by Kris Hermans, the system
complains about missing ec-raw-utmr8a. This might be because such font
does not exist (tfm files are available in \localtexmf\fonts, pfb
not).

6. When I try to run the file ec-urw-times.tex, the system complains first
about missing fmvr8x. This seems to be a euro-related problem. I have
marvosym and eurofonts installed, but can find only .tfm file for the
font.

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So, what's next? I guess there are a lot of MiKTeX users who'd love to use
ConTeXt with URW fonts. And sometimes even with the local currency symbol.

TIA,

- Ville

8<------

 TeXFont 1.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2001 (STILL BETA)

       encoding vector : ec
           vendor name : urw
           source path : D:\texmf/fonts/afm/urw/times
       font collection : times
       texmf font root : d:\localtexmf
       pdftex map file : ec-urw-times.map
      processing files : all on afm path
    extending map file : D:\localtexmf/pdftex/config/ec-urw-times.map

       font identifier : NimbusRomNo9L-Medi -> text -> tfm + vf
generating raw tfm/vpl : ec-raw-utmb8a (from utmb8a)
     generating new vf : ec-utmb8a (from ec-raw-utmb8a)
      missing pfb file : utmb8a.pfb

       font identifier : NimbusRomNo9L-MediItal -> text -> tfm + vf
generating raw tfm/vpl : ec-raw-utmbi8a (from utmbi8a)
     generating new vf : ec-utmbi8a (from ec-raw-utmbi8a)
      missing pfb file : utmbi8a.pfb

       font identifier : NimbusRomNo9L-Regu -> text -> tfm + vf
generating raw tfm/vpl : ec-raw-utmr8a (from utmr8a)
     generating new vf : ec-utmr8a (from ec-raw-utmr8a)
      missing pfb file : utmr8a.pfb

       font identifier : NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal -> text -> tfm + vf
generating raw tfm/vpl : ec-raw-utmri8a (from utmri8a)
     generating new vf : ec-utmri8a (from ec-raw-utmri8a)
      missing pfb file : utmri8a.pfb

            generating : ls-r databases

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