Re: Simulating Handwriting (and a couple of other questions)

> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 13:03:23 Gordon Royle wrote:
>  
>> Anyway, the instructions for installing emerald say
>>
>>    
>>>  Copy  trees "fonts"
>>> and "tex" into your texmf folder.
>>>      
>> [...]
>> Then I ran "sudo texhash" and at least it managed to find
>> "emerald.sty" and drew the nice blue box you made...
>>    
>
> That's not enough, see the readme.  You need to configure dvips and/or pdftex
> to know about the font (i.e. some font mapping).  I had the same problem.
>
> Oh, I just realized you read that, too:
>  
>>> to  the  pdfTeX  configuration file.  With  teTeX,  fpTeX or
>>> MikTeX this is texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg.
>>>      
>> Now I grind to a halt... I don't HAVE  a texmf/pdftex/config
>> directory...  nor do I have a pdftex.cfg file (anywhere on the system).
>>    
>
> Same here.  However, getting dvips to work was easy, and I stopped there
> because my interest in this is not urgent. ;-} Sorry.
>
>  
>>> pdfTeX warning: /usr/texbin/pdflatex (file fjdmw8r): Font fjdmw8r at
>>> 600 not fo
>>> und
>>> </usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/
>>> sfrm1000.pfb>
>>>      
>> Basically I just don't know enough about how fonts are defined and
>> used to actually debug the instructions (all I know is that font
>> management is a dark dark art...)
>>    
>
> Exactly.  I believe the above map files map the "fjdmw8r" font (for which
> there are metrics in the tfm directory) to one of the real (i.e. type1) font
> file names.
>
> HTH,
>   Hans
>
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