Re: Font problem when upgrade from 1.4.x to 1.6.8-2; (Cygwin)

[Mats Bengtsson]

To avoid any risk of confusion: Whenever I wrote tetex-bin in the
earlier messages, I actually meant tetex-base.

    /Mats

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> The problem turns out to be trivial to fix for the maintainer of
> tetex-tiny. The file cmr8.pfb is missing in the package.
> Since Lilypond also uses sizes 5, 6 and 7, I recomment to add also
> cmr5.pfb, cmr6.pfb and cmr7.pfb.
>
> For those of you who have installed lilypond with tetex-tiny and
> don't want to install the full tetex-bin package, this means that
> you can simply fix your current installation by downloading the files
> given above from
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/pfb/?action=/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/ 
>
> Save them to the directory
> C:\cygwin\usr\share\texmf\fonts\type1\bluesky\cm\
> and run the command "texhash" once from the cygwin command window
> afterwards.
>
>     /Mats
>
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
> > I just tried to reinstall the whole cygwin environment from scratch
> > to try to repeat this problem.
> >
> > It turns out to be a problem not in the lilypond package itself but
> > in the tetex-tiny package. As a workaround, you could rerun the
> > setup.exe file and add the package tetex-bin to the installation.
> > Unfortunately, the package is very large so I hope you don't connect
> > to internet using a phone modem.
> >
> > I have not investigated fully what is wrong in tetex-tiny, but it
> > is somehow related to the font cmr8. The following test illustrates
> > the problem clearly:
> > tex testfont
> >   font to test: cmr8
> >   Commands: \table \bye
> > dvips testfont
> >
> > When run with tetex-tiny, you get the courier font in the table
> > whereas you get the correct computer modern font with tetex-bin.
> >
> >    /Mats
> >
> >
> > Joel McNary wrote:
> >
> > > For approximately a year I was happily using Lilypond version 1.4.? 
> > > (not sure exactly which one...)  However, my computer then crashed 
> > > and I had to reinstall everything.  I installed the latest binary 
> > > distribution (1.6.8-2) for Cygwin, and now my lyrics print using a 
> > > typewriter-font instead of the "pretty" font.  I've tried all sorts 
> > > of things but cannot seem to get it to display/print in the old font 
> > > again.  I've searched for anything relating to this problem, but 
> > > cannot seem to find anything on-line.  Does anybody have any ideas 
> > > what I need to do?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > >
> > > Joel McNary
> > >
> > >
> > >
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