Re: font mystery

Re: font mystery

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Maybe one further element that would suggest Context is using a cached 
copy of the tfm-file instead of the newly created file: when I move the 
file Myfont.tfm out of the $home/texmf/fonts/tfm directory, pdftex 
gives me the expected error "! I can't find file `Myfont'." However, 
Context will still happily produce output--with an outdated copy of the 
tfm! So context must be caching it somewhere, and I need to flush that 
cache. Anyone an idea how this can be done?

Thanks

Thomas

Re: Re: font mystery

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:46 05/10/2003, you wrote:
>Maybe one further element that would suggest Context is using a cached 
>copy of the tfm-file instead of the newly created file: when I move the 
>file Myfont.tfm out of the $home/texmf/fonts/tfm directory, pdftex gives 
>me the expected error "! I can't find file `Myfont'." However, Context 
>will still happily produce output--with an outdated copy of the tfm! So 
>context must be caching it somewhere, and I need to flush that cache. 
>Anyone an idea how this can be done?

maybe issuing the command "mktexlsr" helps

Hans

Re: Re: font mystery

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:12  AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> maybe issuing the command "mktexlsr" helps
>
Well, I solved my immediate problem by renaming the tfm file to 
MyFontNew.tfm and editing the appropriate line in the map file. But I'm 
still curious what caused the problem. No, mktexlsr wouldn't help since 
all the files are in my local tree which doesn't use ls-R indexes. I 
had a dim impression that Context was kinda stubborn before: I had 
tried something new, given up and switched off the computer. The next 
day--bamm, the thing would work without a hitch. So, is Context using 
some internal caches for stuff like this?

Re: Re: font mystery

[Matt Gushee]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:46:50PM +0200, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
> Maybe one further element that would suggest Context is using a cached 
> copy of the tfm-file instead of the newly created file: when I move the 
> file Myfont.tfm out of the $home/texmf/fonts/tfm directory, pdftex 
> gives me the expected error "! I can't find file `Myfont'." However, 
> Context will still happily produce output--with an outdated copy of the 
> tfm!

Are you sure it is the TFM file that is out of date? Or might it be a PK
font? If it is the latter, you can simply find the PK font cache (often
something like /var/lib/texmf/fonts/... on Linux systems) and delete
any suspicious files.

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Re: Re: font mystery

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

> Are you sure it is the TFM file that is out of date? Or might it be a 
> PK
> font?

No, it is a (postscript) font I'm creating myself, so there is no 
pk-file. I'm having the same trouble again this morning: edited 
pfb-file, saved, new file is used in pdftex testfont, Context is still 
using the old version.

Thomas

Re: font mystery

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi,

> No, it is a (postscript) font I'm creating myself, so there is no
> pk-file. I'm having the same trouble again this morning: edited
> pfb-file, saved, new file is used in pdftex testfont, Context is still
> using the old version.

... of what? the tfm file or the pfb file?

ConTeXt does not cache anything. So the probability that your system is
misconfigured is > 0. I've forgotten: what system are you using? 

Patrick
-- 
You are your own rainbow!

Re: Re: font mystery

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:07 08/10/2003, you wrote:
>>Are you sure it is the TFM file that is out of date? Or might it be a PK
>>font?
>
>No, it is a (postscript) font I'm creating myself, so there is no pk-file. 
>I'm having the same trouble again this morning: edited pfb-file, saved, 
>new file is used in pdftex testfont, Context is still using the old version.

you can use kpsewhich to see what font pdftex finds first, it's probably a 
file search problem (did you run mktexlsr?)

Hans

Re: Re: font mystery

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

\startembarrassment
I found out what caused the strange behavior. I was testing the font in 
a directory where there was also an old instance of the .tfm-file. So 
Context would search the working directory, find everything it needed 
to produce the font, and thus neglect all the new stuff I had modified 
and installed into $home/texmf. Performing the tests in a different 
directory removed all the unexplicable behavior.
\stopembarrassment
Thanks to all for looking into this, and sorry for the confusion I 
created.
On an unrelated note: please forgive if I seem sluggish in responding 
to posts. For some reason I can't figure out (and Erik looked into this 
and tried to help), some of my posts take three days or even longer 
before they get posted.

Re: Re: font mystery

[Hans Hagen]

At 13:23 11/10/2003, you wrote:
>\startembarrassment
>I found out what caused the strange behavior. I was testing the font in a 
>directory where there was also an old instance of the .tfm-file. So 
>Context would search the working directory, find everything it needed to 
>produce the font, and thus neglect all the new stuff I had modified and 
>installed into $home/texmf. Performing the tests in a different directory 
>removed all the unexplicable behavior.
>\stopembarrassment

in texmf.cnf you can see how paths are configured, some paths indeed have . 
as first path to consult; in general, context itself will look for source 
files in

./
../.
../../.
tex input paths

but fonts and alike are out of context's control

Hans  

font mystery

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

My brain is spinning, I hope somebody can help me. I am trying to 
create a new font (with pfaedit), and things seem to be working well. i 
now have most uppercase and lowercase characters. When I run "pdftex 
testfont *Myfont *\table *\bye," I get all the glyphs I created. When I 
do the same with tex or pdfetex, I get all the glyphs I created. When I 
produce a simple testfile for ConteXt, some of the glyphs (specifically 
some of the uppercase characters) are simply missing. But pdfetex can 
create them! What am I doing wrong??? Here's my simple file:

\definefontsynonym[Greekfont][Myfont]

\definefont[MySecondFont][Greekfont]

\starttext

\MySecondFont abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyz

A D E F G H J K M N O P Q R S T U Z

\stoptext

On the pdf, I get all the lowercase glyphs + A G O P Q R T Z, but not 
the other glyphs, all of them defined, all of them present in my 
testfont.pdf. The log doesn't show any warning vel. sim. I tried 
playing around with several encodings both in pfaedit (I used Adobe 
Standard, TeX8r, iso 8859) and my tex-file (I tried 8r, texnansi, ec), 
all to no avail. Does anybody have a clue what's going wrong here? It 
almost looks like ConteXt is using some old cache instead of the just 
created tfm and pfb files, but where would that be? I am completely 
baffled!

Best

Thomas