Re: adding fonts

[Ben Saylor]

Actually, the afm files were produced with pf2afm, but removing the last
newline did the trick.  Thanks :)

Ben

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 08:25:42PM -0700, Albert Kinderman wrote:
> Ben Saylor wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just found lout a couple of days ago, and I really like it so far.
> > However, I'm having difficulty using nonstandard fonts.  Here's what
> > I've done so far:
> > 
> > ./capstones.lt is my document.  It has @Include{mydoc} at the top.
> > 
> > cp /usr/share/lout/include/doc ./mydoc and made the following changes:
> > 
> >   @InitialFont  { GoudyOldStyle Base 12p }
> > 
> >   @Database @FontDef  { myfontdefs }  # replacing @SysDatabase{fontdefs}
> > 
> > ./myfontdefs.ld:
> > 
> >   { @FontDef
> >       @Tag { GoudyOldStyle-Base }
> >       @Family { GoudyOldStyle }
> >       @Face { Base }
> >       @Name { Goudy-Old-Style-Normal }
> >       @Metrics { "/"usr"/"X11R6"/"lib"/"X11"/"fonts"/"Type1"/"goudyo.afm }
> >       @Mapping { LtLatin1.LCM }
> >   }
> > 
> > Now, when I run "lout capstones.lt > capstones.ps" I get the following
> > error:
> > 
> >   lout file "myfontdefs.ld" (from "mydoc" line 376, from "capstones"
> >   line 1): 6,16: fatal error: EndFontMetrics missing from font file
> >   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/goudyo.afm
> > 
> > However, the last line in goudyo.afm is EndFontMetrics.  What could be
> > the problem?  Am I even on the right track for adding new fonts? :)
> > 
> > I'm using version 3.25 on debian unstable.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> 
> Let me guess.  You transported your file through a windows (DOS)
> system.  There is now a carriage return and a line feed at the end of
> the  EndFontMetrics line.  Remove it and you will be fine.  This is a
> known problem. 
> 
> Al
> 
> -- 
> Albert Kinderman             California State University, Northridge
> Systems and Operations Management          address@hidden
>