Re: font (?) help request

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> ---- "Alex Langley" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > ---- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > They should be available, ie, there should be nothing 'to fix' on
> > > Linux.  Did you build LilyPond yourself?  Did you build and install
> > > the pfa fonts?  Maybe we need better instructions for this.
> > 
> > Yes, I built LilyPond 1.6.2, guile, python, etc. myself.
> > 
> > I did not create the PFA fonts.  
> 
> I see the problem.  I did not have pktrace or mftrace installed,
> so make pfa-fonts didn't work.  I recall during "./configure" that
> it was "Suggested" to have these, but not "Required".  Perhaps if
> ./configure was a stubborn about these as python and guile?

That's a possibility, unfortunately mftrace requires autotrace and
t1utils, so we have kind of a domino dependency requirement...

Perhaps we should modify ly2dvi to detect whether PFA fonts are
available and print a warning otherwise.

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