[Pyx-user] Palatino and friends not cooperating

[Magnus L. H. <ma...@he...>]

Hi!

Just discovered PyX -- absolutely marvellous! I love the TeX- and
intersection-capabilities of MetaPost, but I'm not quite friends with
the language. Now I can do the same stuff in Python! Yay!

However... There are some things I do in MetaPost that I haven't yet
quite figured out how to do in PyX, among them being the use of other
fonts than Computer Modern. I regularly use Palatino (through the
LaTeX package mathpple.sty), but that doesn't seem to be quite as easy
in PyX.

I've looked through recent archives (where I discovered that I could
turn off the extension modules that refused to compile in some
places). The problem seems to be that the relevant fonts aren't
defined in psfonts.map -- that's the error message I get, and upon
inspecting psfonts.map, I have to agree. There are lots of Palatino
stuff there but not the ones I need (such as pplr7t).

I don't have direct access to the psfonts.map file directly (I'm
running stuff from my home directory) -- could I copy it and use a
modified version? If so, any tips of what I should add? Or -- is there
some other file somewhere that contains the relevant info, one that
PyX could use directly? (After all, MetaPost manages just fine...) Any
other ideas? Something I've missed in the archives?

- Magnus (*really* anxious to get up and running with PyX :)

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland           "The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
http://hetland.org            but a fire to be lighted."  [Plutarch]