On Thursday, 10 June 1999, Chris Sawer writes:
> On 08-Jun-99 Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> <snip>
> > You can build the fonts as vectors. Do make -C mf pfa. You should
> > check
> > the dvips documentation how to include these iso. the bitmap fonts.
> > I'd gladly include such info into faq.
>
> The dvips documentation says:
>
> >>You must have an AFM file for any font you install.
>
> I made the pfa fonts as you described above, which gives .pfa files for
> all the fonts, but .afm files only exist for the feta11, 13, 16, 19,
> 20, 23 + 26 fonts - not the feta-braces fonts, the feta-din font, the
> feta-nummer fonts or the feta-test fonts. Is this likely to be a
> problem?
>
> The documentation then goest on to say:
>
> >> Installation of a PostScript font proceeds in three steps.
> >>
> >> 1. Run `afm2tfm' to create a TFM file for the original font, and the
> >> VPL form of the virtual font:
> >> afm2tfm Times-Roman -v ptmr rptmr
>
> Running this on the feta afm files gives a syntax error and the tfm and
> vpl files never get generated. Next you're supposed to:
What's the error; which afm2tfm are you using (the one supplied with
Lily?)
Jan.
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