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then you have probably run into a bug in your version of <tt>afm2tfm</tt>, which is a program called by the <tt>texfont</tt> script. This happened to me with Monotype's ''Century Gothic'' font family. You have 2 options:  
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then you have probably run into a bug in your version of <tt>afm2tfm</tt>, which is a program called by the <tt>texfont</tt> script. This happened to me with Monotype's ''Century Gothic'' font family. You have 3 options:  
  
 
# get a fixed version of afm2tfm ('''NB''' I don't know if this exists yet);
 
# get a fixed version of afm2tfm ('''NB''' I don't know if this exists yet);
 
# edit the AFM files to work around the problem.
 
# edit the AFM files to work around the problem.
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# install [[http://tex.aanhet.net/afm2pl/ afm2pl]] and use texfont's <tt>--afmpl</tt> switch
  
To take the second option, open each <tt>.afm</tt> file in a text editor and find the section headed <tt>StartComposites</tt>. In each line in this section, up to the line <tt>EndComposites</tt>, make sure that there is a space ''before'' every semicolon as well as after (there are 3 semicolons per line). For example, the line referenced above would now look like this:
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To take the second option, open a copy of each <tt>.afm</tt> file in a text editor and find the section headed <tt>StartComposites</tt>. Delete this entire section, up to and including the line <tt>EndComposites</tt>
  
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After you have done this to all the <tt>.afm</tt> files, <tt>afm2tfm</tt> should work and texfont should complete successfully.
CC Aacute 2 ; PCC A 0 0 ; PCC acute 182 150 ;
 
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After you have done this to all the <tt>CC</tt> lines, <tt>afm2tfm</tt> should work and texfont should complete successfully.
 

Revision as of 17:56, 28 February 2005

texfont fails with syntax error

(Tested on: TeXFont version 2.2.1; afm2tfm version 8.1 (dvips(k) 5.94b); Windows XP)

If you are installing a Type 1 font (.pfb and .afm files) using texfont, and you come up against an error message like this:

; expected: ! syntax error
CC Aacute 2; PCC A 0 0; PCC acute 182 150;

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then you have probably run into a bug in your version of afm2tfm, which is a program called by the texfont script. This happened to me with Monotype's Century Gothic font family. You have 3 options:

  1. get a fixed version of afm2tfm (NB I don't know if this exists yet);
  2. edit the AFM files to work around the problem.
  3. install [afm2pl] and use texfont's --afmpl switch

To take the second option, open a copy of each .afm file in a text editor and find the section headed StartComposites. Delete this entire section, up to and including the line EndComposites

After you have done this to all the .afm files, afm2tfm should work and texfont should complete successfully.