Newbie question

Dr. Albert Kapune akapune@mailso.uni-paderborn.de
Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:55:36 -0400



Hello Florian,

> 
> For some time now i'm reading docs about how to use PostScript fonts
> in LaTeX. So far i managed to:
> 
> 1) Get the .afm and .pfb fonts for the fonts i'm intrested
> 2) Rename them to Karl Berry  naming scheme
> 
> 
> But i cannot the manage the last step, i.e. to use 'fontinst' to
> create the corespondint .vf and .tf. More precisely  when running
> fontinst in the directory containing the .afm  files it will create
> _only_ some font description (.fd)  files but no .pl or .vpl files
> (please see detailed example at the end of mail). Any idea what i am
> missing ?
> 
> 

You can find a pretty good advice in the document 'fontinst.dvi' from 
the fontinst package. Pages 7 and 8 will solve your problem 
(hopefully <g>).

Kind regards,
-- Albert

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