At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:39:41 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Angus Lees wrote:
> > > kpathsea: Running mktexmf  pncr7t
> > > ! I can't find file `pncr7t'.
> > > <*> ... mag:=magstep(5); nonstopmode; input pncr7t
> > 
> > so do you actually have "pncr7t.mf"? where is it?
> 
> Just looked - no its not there.
> I have: 
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr7t.tfm  and
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/ncntrsbk/pncr7t.vf
> 
> > does your xdvi use kpathsea to find files? if not, is it looking in
> > the right place?
> Thats what I dont know. There is no emntion of setting font paths in the
> docs for xdvi that I have.

if your xdvi is mentioned as "xdvik" anywhere, then its the kpathsea
version. check xdvi -version.  but since you don't have the font
glyphs themselves (only font metric files), it isn't a simple matter
of looking harder.

> > pncr is "NewCenturySchlbk-Roman", one of the standard postscript
> > fonts. so if you were planning on dvips'ing, then TeX probably doesn't
> > need to actually have the font - ghostscript will use its own copy. it
> 
> After dvips the ps file shows the font fine, yes gs uses it own. I was
> planning to use just xdvi as it immediately shows the changes that are
> made after running latex. It will be an 'interactive' tute with changes
> via vim, run latex and presto look what shows now in xdvi.

then you'll need to use fonts that xdvi can display - not those that
dvips just "passes through".  locate \*.mf shows several possible
alternatives.

i've never used xdvi directly too much, so i'm not sure if it can use
type1 fonts (i presume it can). if so, then you can choose from *.pfb
as well.

alternatively, you could probably find the right ghostscript *.pfb
file and symlink it into the right TeX NFSS fontname. personally, i'd
just choose another font.

(i've been wanting to look into defoma + tetex integration for a few
weeks now - to make it trivial to add new TeX fonts. just have to wait
until i can stop writing talks..)

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