Re: [PyX-user] font problems after upgrading

[William H. <w.h...@as...>]

Hi all

On Jan 18, 2008 9:02 AM, William Henney <w.h...@as...> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2008 3:49 AM, Michael SCHINDLER
> <m-s...@us...> wrote:
> > You should install the afm files for the standard fonts in the TeX
> > installation. In a recent texlive installation (I am using the texlive
> > packages from Debian stable), they are included in the base
> > installation from texlive. Otherwise, you should install them manually
> > -- they should be downloadable from CTAN (try ftp.ctan.org): search
> > for the cm fonts from bluesky. The installation of fonts in TeX
> > requires several steps which are documented in the WWW and probably
> > in the README files that come with the bluesky fonts.
> >
>
> OK, I could try that, but installing fonts by hand isn't going to scale w=
ell :(
>

I was wrong. It was very easy. Just for the record, here are the steps
required to install the Computer Modern afm files on an FC7 system.
Other linux/unix systems should be similar:

wget -nd http://www.ctan.org/get/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky/cmps-unix.tar.gz
tar xzf cmps-unix.tar.gz
cd cmpsfont/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bluesky/cm
sudo cp -av afm/* /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bluesky/cm
sudo texhash

Thanks to Joerg and Michael for the advice.

I would still like to know why txfonts didn't work.

Cheers

Will

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