Gerben Wierda wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 15:03, Ville Voipio wrote (on the ConTeX list, but
this also is interesting for all gwTeX users):
I have spent some very interesting time trying to install the TeXlive
fonts by using texfont type-tmf.dat. What happened was that a lot of
complaints about
Gerben Wierda wrote:
My quick'n'dirty was to make new file type-tmf-gwtex.dat by replacing
all occurrences of TEXMFMAIN by TEXMFTE. Running that one in batch
mode works fine.
one can specify the fontroot on the commandline
in most cases texfont is is used for installing fonts not in a tex tree
generated fonts metrics are put in a given path:
And this is not the problem.
I have to apologise for the bad wording of my previous message. I am not
saying there would be anything wrong with the Perl script. The only
slight annoyance there is the error message, which states:
unknown subpath
The problem is really in the font installation script (type-tmf.dat).
There the root (i.e. the source tree for the fonts) is explicitly given
as TEXMFMAIN. And this does not work in gwTeX, because if something is
given, it has to be TEXMFTE.
Just for my understanding. Does texfont.pl only
Gerben Wierda said this at Mon, 2 May 2005 17:10:03 +0200:
The problem is really in the font installation script (type-tmf.dat).
There the root (i.e. the source tree for the fonts) is explicitly given
as TEXMFMAIN. And this does not work in gwTeX, because if something is
given, it has to be
Just for my understanding. Does texfont.pl only
read in TEXMFMAIN or does it also write (can it
be a search path or does it require for TEXMFMAIN
to be just one directory)?
texfont.pl checks several places. By a very quick look
at the sources, it looks for the following:
TEXMFMAIN
On Apr 29, 2005, at 15:03, Ville Voipio wrote (on the ConTeX list, but
this also is interesting for all gwTeX users):
I have spent some very interesting time trying to install the TeXlive
fonts by using texfont type-tmf.dat. What happened was that a lot of
complaints about unknown subpath
I have spent some very interesting time trying to install the TeXlive
fonts by using texfont type-tmf.dat. What happened was that a lot of
complaints about unknown subpath ../afm/public/urw were given even
though the path should have been there. This is a known problem, has
been on several
