I am sorry if this is a silly question. I have spent several hours on this, and read all the documentation that I can find (not all of which I understand), and still can't get this to work :-(
I have installed teTeX from the Mandriva 2006.0 RPM database on to my Mandriva 2006.0 system. I have made NO changes to the installed files. The RPM creates a system-wide texmf tree rooted in /usr/share/texmf. I want to use a Garamond typeface, and discovered the URW Garamond No. 8 type 1 files at TUG (https://www.tug.org/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond/). I create a directory ~/texmf as the root for a local texmf tree that is just for me, not for the entire system. I have carefully followed the instructions in README.garamond in that directory, using ~/texmf as the root for the texmf tree (including running texhash and updmap exactly as described in README.garamond). Now I actually want to use the typeface in my plain TeX file. Problem: I don't know what to use in the line: \font\rm=<something> Normally, for Computer Modern, one would just put: \font\rm=cmr10 I have all kinds of things for <something>, but none of hem work. For example: \font\rm=garamond \font\rm=ugm \font\rm=ugmr8a \font\rm=ugmr8c They give various kinds of errors. Maybe I have not found the right thing to put in place of <something>. For example. when I try \font\rm=ugmr8a the error is: [H:] pdftex test This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) entering extended mode (./test.tex [1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] )</usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ugmr8a mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ugmr8a. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. This is driving me slowly crazy. Doc Evans
