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From: "David Wolfson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: Symbols for a figure key - adding a new font
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
David Wolfson wrote:
>>Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a
>>triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI,
LaTeX writes out a DVI file which contains a command to load the ifgeo10
font. When your DVI viewer (xdvi) tries to load the document, it
discovers that the ifgeo10 font does not (yet) exist in your font
directories, so it tries to run mktexpk to generate the specific font
files.
This is the conclusion I was coming to last night.
You might want to ask on comp.text.tex whether anyone there can figure
out why metafont is failing.
Good idea - I've just done this here:
> I'll let you know if I have a breakthrough,
Dave
I downloaded the entire zip package and installed it in /usr/ifsym
since I wasn't sure what the proper path was. I copied texmf.dvi,
the test file, to the same directory. Then ran "xdvi texmf.dvi" and
in displayed properly. Before getting the ifsym package I got the
same error message you did. So it should work once the paths are
ok. So it is a relief to know the package isn't broken.
www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/*ifsym*/
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ifsym]# ls /usr/ifsym
ifclk10.mf ifgeobn10.mf ifsym10.mf ifsym.ps texmf.dvi uifwea.fd
ifclkb10.mf ifgeobw10.mf ifsymb10.mf ifsym.sty uifblk.fd
ifclk.gen ifgeo.gen ifsymbi10.mf ifwea10.mf uifclk.fd
ifgeo10.mf ifgeon10.mf ifsym.gen ifweab10.mf uifgeo.fd
ifgeob10.mf ifgeow10.mf ifsymi10.mf ifwea.gen uifsym.fd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ifsym]# xdvi texmf.dvi
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600
ifgeo10
mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600;
nonstopmode; input ifgeo10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4)
(/usr/ifsym/ifgeo10.mf (/usr/ifsym/ifgeo.gen [32] [48] [64] [80] [96] [112]
[0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [33] [49] [65] [81] [97] [113] [34] [50] [66] [82] [98]
[114] [35] [51] [67] [83] [99] [115] [36] [52] [68] [84] [100] [116] [37]
[53] [69] [85] [101] [117] [38] [54] [70] [86] [102] [118] [47] [63] [79]
[95] [111] [127] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [13] [14] [15] [26] [27] [28] [29]
[30] [31] ) )
Font metrics written on ifgeo10.tfm.
Output written on ifgeo10.600gf (67 characters, 15848 bytes).
Transcript written on ifgeo10.log.
mktexpk: /usr/ifsym/ifgeo10.600pk: successfully generated.
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
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SH: Still the geometric figures were displayed ok. Regards
