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MacOSX-TeX Digest #1403 - Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Re: [OS X TeX] bibtex8
by "Jonas Wellendorf"
FontForge and mf?
by
Re: [OS X TeX] FontForge and mf?
by "Peter Dyballa"
Re: [OS X TeX] FontForge and mf?
by "Bruno Voisin"
Re: [OS X TeX] FontForge and mf?
by "Stephen Moye"
"Can't find" problem using Daniel Steffen's mytex script
by "Ian Morrison"
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] bibtex8
From: "Jonas Wellendorf"
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:50:38 +0200
Den 13. jun. 2005 kl. 23.26 skrev Werenfried Spit:
>
> Does anyone know how to get bibtex8 working on osX? The executable
> is present in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/
> bibtex8
> and it is running, but it is unable to find either .csf or .bst
> files. Adding
> the proper paths to texmf.cnf is to no avail. Even putting the
> files in
> the current dir does not work.
It works for me.
I have placed my csf-file in the local tex-tree. With the terminal I
go to the directory where my tex file is and type:
bibtex8 --csfile name_of_csf_file name_of_tex_file
Jonas
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Subject: FontForge and mf?
From:
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:08:42 -0400
I'm trying to use FontForge to get at some mf fonts. Everything is fine =
until I get
this error message from (I think) FontForge:
Could not read (or perhaps find) mf output file
What is missing?
Thanks for any insights.
Stephen Moye
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] FontForge and mf?
From: "Peter Dyballa"
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:24:19 +0200
Am 14.06.2005 um 17:08 schrieb :
> I'm trying to use FontForge to get at some mf fonts. Everything is
> fine until I get
> this error message from (I think) FontForge:
>
> Could not read (or perhaps find) mf output file
>
> What is missing?
Fontforge can't work with MF files. So it converts with the help of
autotrace, pktrace, or mftrace into another format. Could be you miss
any of these helpers ...
autotrace is provided by an i-Package. And fink, and ...
--
Greetings
Pete
A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to
do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to
live.
-- Bradford Angier
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] FontForge and mf?
From: "Bruno Voisin"
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:53:07 +0200
Le 14 juin 05 =E0 20:24, Peter Dyballa a =E9crit :
> Fontforge can't work with MF files. So it converts with the help of =20=
> autotrace, pktrace, or mftrace into another format. Could be you =20
> miss any of these helpers ...
>
> autotrace is provided by an i-Package. And fink, and ...
FontForge can work with either AutoTrace or potrace . =46rom having used the two earlier this year =20=
to trace a JPEG logo and convert it to PS, I would recommend potrace. =20=
It installs from DarwinPorts immediately, and there's also a Fink =20
version.
Bruno Voisin
=20=
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] FontForge and mf?
From: "Stephen Moye"
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:42:35 -0400
On Jun 14, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 14.06.2005 um 17:08 schrieb :
>
>
>> I'm trying to use FontForge to get at some mf fonts. Everything is
>> fine until I get
>> this error message from (I think) FontForge:
>>
>> Could not read (or perhaps find) mf output file
>>
>> What is missing?
>>
>
> Fontforge can't work with MF files. So it converts with the help of
> autotrace, pktrace, or mftrace into another format. Could be you
> miss any of these helpers ...
>
> autotrace is provided by an i-Package. And fink, and ...
>
Yes, I have all of that installed (i-installer) and fontforge finds
autotrace without a problem. The error message I got comes up after
fontforge seems to start working on the file. I'm wondering if mf
needs a place to write an intermediary file?
SGM
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Subject: "Can't find" problem using Daniel Steffen's mytex script
From: "Ian Morrison"
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:27:57 -0400
I have been trying to follow instructions kindly sent by Daniel Steffen
(amplifying a post here:
http://w3.msi.vxu.se/~pku/MacOSX_TeX/2003a/msg02510.htm) to use his
"mytex" script in conjunction with the "ldump.sty" to create on the fly
formats. I have double checked that everything he suggests has been
done and yet I am getting a "Can't find the required tool" error from
TeXShop which I cannot understand or eliminate. I have Daniel's script
and suitable symlinks in my /bin. The TeXShop "Misc" preferences pane
gives full paths to his scripts (/Users/towers/bin/mypdftex and
/Users/towers/bin/mypdflatex) and I have "personal script" selected as
my default script in the "Typesetting" preferences pane. But when I
typeset (any flavor) I get a "Can't find the required tool" error which
goes on to claim that "/Users/towers/bin/mypdflatex" does not exist.
What needs to be hooked up to get this to work?
Ian Morrison
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