Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. Thanks you for your reply. Won't dpkg refuse to install because of missing “dependencies”? -- Do not eat animals; respect them as you respect people.

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Aug 2017 at 17:13:52 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:36:30AM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > > > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > > > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. >

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Curt
On 2017-08-31, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > > On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: >> One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i=20 >> texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. > > Thanks you for your reply. > > Won't dpkg refuse to install because of missing dependencies? d

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 08:36:30AM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > On 31/08/17 02:48, Curt wrote: > > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i > > texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. > > Thanks you for your reply. > > Won't dpkg refuse to insta

Re: How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-31 Thread Curt
s there a way to install only the TeX fonts contained in >texive-fonts-extra without the other packages? > > Thanks. > One way is to download the deb file and install it via 'dpkg -i texlive-fonts-extra_2016.20170123-5_all.deb'. For Stretch: https://packages.debia

How to install extra TeX fonts without crud?

2017-08-30 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Hello. I want to install some fonts to use in LaTeX that seem to be available only in the “texive-fonts-extra” package. The problem, is that “texive-fonts-extra” depends on a lot of fonts packages that I do not want. Is there a way to install only the TeX fonts contained in “texive-fonts-extra

cached tex fonts

2004-05-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is there a simpler way to purge the cached font metrics in /var/cache/fonts than something like find /var/cache/fonts -type f -name "*.pk" -o -name "*.tfm" | xargs rm ? In particular, I find that upgrading tetex packages doesn't do this automatically. Should it? Is this a bug? -- Nothing c

Re: TeX fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Oki DZ
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:13:38PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > What's the error message you're getting? CM, being the TeX standard > font, really should Just Work... No message. CM works fine. > Has absolutely nothing at all to do with TeX, PostScript, or > displaying things in gv. The proble

Re: TeX fonts

2003-01-05 Thread David Z Maze
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I converted a .dvi file into a .ps one. The converter (dvips) couldn't > find the font (Computer Modern) for the .ps file, so the font displayed > wrongly in gv. What's the error message you're getting? CM, being the TeX standard font, really should Just Work.

TeX fonts

2003-01-05 Thread Oki DZ
How can I make use the TeX fonts in X? Pointers please... Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-26 Thread David Z. Maze
Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CF> You *really* can't do LaTeX without the real book "LaTeX, A CF> document preparation system" by Lamport. At least that has been my CF> experience in twenty odd years of TeXing. And if you're into very CF> arcane type setting you can't do without "The

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:06:09PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: ... > > (I found this documented, if sparingly, in the LaTeX Companion, by > > Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin; ISBN 0-201-54199-8, section 11.9.1.) > > That seems to

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > There are a number of postscript fonts provided with dvips that you can use > in TeX. As you have discovered, though, finding them is the trick. > Check out psfonts.map, from the tetex-base package. In potato, at least, > there are

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-25 Thread Kalle Hasselström
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:46:54PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > dvips sends its output directly to the printer by default and I haven't > gotten around to determining how to change that yet, so I've been viewing > it as rendered by an HP LaserJet (IIRC) 5000. > From the dvips manpage: -o

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
e top of "o" is so thin it practically isn't there, the sides > (particularly the left side) of "!" are jagged, the upper-left to lower- > right strokes of several letters look like they're a row of dots instead > of a line, etc. The font design seems t

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cmr10 and cmr17 both come out looking like bitmapped fonts (gee, I wonder > why...) which have been blown up without decent antialiasing - the closure > at the top of "o" is so thin it practically isn't there, the sides > (particularly the left side) of

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:17:16PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > Yeah, this gets confusing. TeX just needs the .tfm file, which basically > tells it how tall and how wide each letter is, as well as how far below the > baseline it extends. There's also some ligature and kerning info (how TeX > tur

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This error message may have given me the thought to try cmr17 instead > of CMR17, which does work (although it looks almost as bad as cmr10), > but it still doesn't provide any hints towards finding out what fonts > are available (and usable) on my syst

Re: TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, July 24, Dave Sherohman did write: > I've finally gotten around to learning some TeX and I'm having a terrible > time with fonts: > > First I looked at the Gentle Guide's list of 'normally available' > fonts and grabbed the biggest Roman I could find, only to be told > "! Font \sf

TeX fonts

2001-07-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've finally gotten around to learning some TeX and I'm having a terrible time with fonts: First I looked at the Gentle Guide's list of 'normally available' fonts and grabbed the biggest Roman I could find, only to be told "! Font \sf=CMR17 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found." Let's see...

Re: TeX fonts

1997-03-30 Thread Ralf Comtesse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hallo Syrus, On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > I don't know, but I'm very happily using the new tetex packages from > unstable which seem to fix most of the previous problems with the tex > packages. I'm doing this on two machines that I upg

Re: TeX fonts

1997-03-30 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Ralf Comtesse wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hi, > > When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of > debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files > are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are co

TeX fonts

1997-03-29 Thread Ralf Comtesse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, When I use some of the not so common fonts in a TeX document, MakeTeX* of debian 1.2.7 cannot generate them automatically anymore. The *.tfm files are present and I think all paths in texmf.conf are correct. Is there a fix for that? These are the error mess