[Fontinst] error that I don't understand

[Lars Hellström]

At 11.59 +0200 04-07-31, E. Saudrais wrote:
>Hi fontinst users,
>
>I used a french distribution (AsTeX) that uses emtex. I have no problem
>using fontinst.
>
>This summer, I installed miktex (both distributions run without any
>problem on my PC), but I got an error runing fontinst.
>
>Let see en example with a simple font (amigo) --- see tex file below.
>
>-> No problem if I run latex with astex.
>-> If I run latex with miktex, I get a lot of lines like
>
>! Missing number, treated as zero.
><to be read again>
>                    \i-rawscale
>\setscaledrawglyph ...en \e_count =\int {rawscale}
>                                                   \multiply \a_count
>\e_coun...
>l.24 ...ace}{pair8r}{10pt}{1000}{32}{251}{0}{0}{0}
>?

This could be a bug with \if_defined that one encounters if running
fontinst v1.926 (possibly also some earlier versions) on e-TeX. Check which
executable is being used in the miktex case, and try to use another (e.g.
tex).

>Source file:
>
>\documentclass{article}
>\usepackage{fontinst}
>\begin{document}

It's not necessary to format the command file as a LaTeX document. The
above could just as well have been

  \input fontinst.sty

>\transformfont{pair8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{pair8a}}}
>
>\installfonts
>
>\installfamily{T1}{pai}{}
>\installfont{pair8t}{pair8r,latin}{T1}{T1}{pai}{m}{n}{}
>\endinstallfonts
>\end{document}

And a simple \bye would do instead of \end{document}.

Lars Hellström