----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wolfson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote:David Wolfson wrote: >>Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a >>triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, LaTeX writes out a DVI file which contains a command to load the ifgeo10 font. When your DVI viewer (xdvi) tries to load the document, it discovers that the ifgeo10 font does not (yet) exist in your font directories, so it tries to run mktexpk to generate the specific font files.This is the conclusion I was coming to last night.You might want to ask on comp.text.tex whether anyone there can figure out why metafont is failing.Good idea - I've just done this here: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/8bfbc83797cdb706/f5531355b8a93b38?hl=en#f5531355b8a93b38 If you want to follow any replies. I'll let you know if I have a breakthrough, Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wolfson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote:David Wolfson wrote: >>Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a >>triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI,
Hello David,
I was looking at this thread and it stirred my curiousity. It seems
that there is a problem when the metafont is used instead of the .tfm
I looked at my Windows Miktex installation (even though you use Linux)
C:\texmf\fonts\tfm\public\ifsym and found the following fonts:
Directory of C:\texmf\fonts\tfm\public\ifsym
11/01/2005 05:15 PM <DIR> .
11/01/2005 05:15 PM <DIR> ..
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 768 ifclk10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 768 ifclkb10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 632 ifgeo10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 632 ifgeob10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 640 ifgeobn10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 640 ifgeobw10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 640 ifgeon10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 640 ifgeow10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 720 ifsym10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 720 ifsymb10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 720 ifsymbi10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 720 ifsymi10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 380 ifwea10.tfm
09/01/2001 06:03 PM 380 ifweab10.tfm
So I took your example file posted on comp.text.tex
Wolfson wrote: "and if I run latex on a simple file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[geometry]{ifsym}
\begin{document}
\Circle
\SquareShadowA
\FilledTriangleUp
\end{document}"
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Wolfson continued: "I get no errors and a dvi file produced. The problem is when I try to view the output. When I open the output file with xdvi I get the following error: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ifgeo10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ifgeo10. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. xdvi: Can't find font ifgeo10; using Type1 version of cmr10 instead." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SH: So I pasted your example input into a text editor and saved it as texmf.tex Then I ran "latex texmf.tex" from the command line, producing the following information:
"This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) entering extended mode (texmf.tex LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, french, german, ngerman, du mylang, nohyphenation, loaded. (C:\Miktex\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class (C:\Miktex\texmf\tex\latex\base\size10.clo)) (C:\Miktex\texmf\tex\latex\ifsym\ifsym.sty (C:\Miktex\texmf\tex\latex\tools\calc.sty)) (texmf.aux) (C:\Miktex\texmf\tex\latex\ifsym\uifgeo.fd) [1] (texmf.aux) ) Output written on texmf.dvi (1 page, 280 bytes). Transcript written on texmf.log."SH: So Yap is the default viewer on Windows not xdvi. The 3 geometry files were displayed properly. I attach texmf.dvi. I will also test it on my Fedora installation with xdvi next. I also tested this with another Windows viewer, WinDvi, and it failed to display giving a metafont related error.
Regards, Stephen
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