Re: upgrading latex (how do i find my previous fonts)
- From: rf@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Robin Fairbairns)
- Date: 7 Nov 2005 10:04:01 GMT
"jfont" <jfont1992@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>It's time to upgrade our hardware and software (after putting it off
>for some time). Here's our current latex version:
>
>This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
that's not latex, that's tex; it would be sort of interesting to know
what latex you're using, but it doesn't much matters.
>Last time I compiled this software was 1999. Due to historical reasons,
>we have to use Latex2e in 2.09 compatibility mode.
i.e., there are limits to what upgrade of software you're willing to
contemplate.
>I won't mind switching to teTeX or a newer LaTeX2e (I'm able to compile
>them from source or use the RedHat rpm)but the "major" problem we
>have is the 'texmf' structure - mktekpk can't find the font.
>
>Most of our documents use fonts which start with "psm". How do I
>"integrate" them to teTeX or LaTeX2e?
apart from doing the obvious thing, viz., just converting them, and
using the psnfss...
>Here's part of our current directory structure under
>/usr/local/lib/texmf (I'm only including the "psm" fonts):
>
>fonts/1075/psmhlvb.pk
>fonts/1290/pshhlvb.pk
>fonts/152/psmhlv.pk
>...
>fonts/psmavgb.tfm
>fonts/psmbkml.tfm
>...
>fonts/psmhlv.180pk
>fonts/psmhlv.240pk
how's about (1) move all those pk files to a directory
$TEXMFLOCAL/fonts/pk/outdated
changing the names so that
fonts/1075/psmhlvb.pk
becomes 1990s format
fonts/pk/outdated/psmhlvb.1075pk
(2) move all the tfm to
fonts/tfm/outdated
(3) finally, create a map file
fonts/map/dvips/outdated/old-adobe.map
and put all the contents of your existing psfonts.map that refers to
these psm fonts into this new map
(4) get the whole lot into your system with
mktexlsr
updmap-sys --enable Map old-adobe.map
>Here is the error message when I process one of our documents:
>
>Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
[omitting the complaints about outdated format]
>(/home/stssjtf/teTeX1/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo))kpathsea:
>Running mktextfm psmhlvb
>mktextfm: No such file or directory
>kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>
>! Font \psmhlvbxii=psmhlvb at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
>not found.
><to be read again>
> \relax
>l.2 \newfont{\psmhlvbxii}{psmhlvb at 12pt}
however, if you could bring yourselves to update the documents, you
would get noticeably better results, since you would be taking
advantage of c.15 years' work on metrics for postscript fonts. those
old tfms are usable, but not in any way optimal.
[i wonder what i've forgotten above. i almost forgot the map file...]
--
Robin (http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq) Fairbairns, Cambridge
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