Henning Haeske wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after my first installation was successful I am trying to install the latest
> IPA-font from SIL (Charis -
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=IPAhome#Charis ).
>
> I followed the instruction from the wiki:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installing_a_TrueType_font,_step_by_step
>
> I downloaded the charis-font I decompressed the package and got following
> files:
> ~/Schriftsysteme/IPA $ ls
> CharisSIL4.100FontDocumentation.pdf CharisSILB.ttf FONTLOG.txt README.txt
> CharisSIL4.100.zip CharisSILI.ttf OFL-FAQ.txt
> CharisSILBI.ttf CharisSILR.ttf OFL.txt
>
> Then I entered the sucgested texfont-command:
>
> ~/Schriftsysteme/IPA $ texfont --ve=sil --co=charis --makepath --install *.ttf
> /tmp/tex/texmf-linux/bin/texmfstart:2073: warning: Insecure world writable
> dir /tmp/tex/texmf-linux/bin, mode 040777
>
> TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004
>
> mktexlsr: Updating /tmp/tex/texmf-fonts/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> encoding vector : texnansi
> vendor name : sil
> source path : .
> font collection : charis
> texmf font root : /tmp/tex/texmf-fonts
> map file name : texnansi-sil-charis.map
> source path : .
> processing files : all in pattern CharisSILBI.ttf
> locating afm files : using pattern ./CharisSILBI.ttf.afm
> locating afm files : using otf files
> copying files : afm
> copying files : pfb
> copying files : otf
> processing aborted : no afm files found
>
> --help : show some more info
>
> After this aborted texfont-command I have to run the mktexlsr-comand to
> rebuild the font-structure - even to get the normal results without using the
> new font. An example-file is attached to this email - without IPA-signs.
>
hm, so mktexlsr was aborted cq. ls-r was messed up for some reason? strange
> Did I missed a step or is texfont obsolete?
>
no, but soon you won't need it anymore (xetex supports open type directly as
does luatex)
Hans
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