[TeX-music] Lute tabulation, METAFONT problem

[Christian Mondrup]

Recently I published a modern edition of Psalm 113 for lute and choir by Vincenzo Galilei.

For typesetting the lute tablature I've been using the TeX lute font provided with Wayne Cripp's program 'Tab' for typesetting lute tablatures with a few extra symbols added (see http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/indexmt6.html#other).

During editing Cripp's .mf source I used a shell script containing a.o.

mf "\mode=localfont;input ${1}.mf"
gftopk ${1}.600gf

for generating the new glyphs and then copied the .tfm- anf *pk files to their due places in my localtexmf tree for testing in my typesetting. This causes no problems as long as these files remain there. But if I remove them I can't get them rebuilt during TeX run as I'm accustomed to but get error messages like:

! Emergency stop.
<*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lute8-tex

(some charht values had to be adjusted by as much as 0.39996pt)
Font metrics written on lute8-tex.tfm.
Output written on lute8-tex.600gf (207 characters, 65232 bytes).
Transcript written on lute8-tex.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lute8-tex' failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

I notice that the error occurs immediately before the first of my own added glyphs (char 25). I'm basically a metafont ignorant and would hence be grateful for a little help with debugging my modified .mf source which is available together with the M-Tx sources of my typesetting, http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/galilei/inexitu.zip.

Bye
--
Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 89 49 53 01 - http://www.scandiatransplant.org

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