Re: [Groff] make fails creating U-<fontname>

[Peter Schaffter]

On Sat, May 26, 2012, Deri James wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2012 10:02:22 Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 May 2012 23:41:32 -0400
> > 
> > Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Building groff from the latest sources, 'make' terminates with
> > > Error 2 after multiple warnings of the sort
> > > 
> > >  Warning: line 78: Failed to create groff font 'U-AB' by running afmtodit
> > 
> > In the file groff-current/font/devpdf You need to replace line
> > 68 or so with your own path to the URW font directory, eg I
> > used:
> > 
> > foundry|U|(gs):/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
> 
> The "(gs)" runs "gs -h", and then the search paths shown are
> searched for the fonts.
>
> Peter, what does "gs -h" yield on your system and where are the
> fonts actually located?

  /home/peter/.fonts : /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Init :
  /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/lib :
  /usr/share/ghostscript/9.04/Resource/Font :
  /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : /var/lib/ghostscript/fonts :
  /usr/share/cups/fonts : /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts :
  /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts : /usr/share/fonts

Like Denis's setup, the URW fonts are actually located in

  /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts

Is there any way you can use something like

  find /usr -path *.afm -exec dirname '{}' \; \
  | sort | uniq | grep "gs\|gsfonts\|ghostscript"

and append the output to the gs -h font path?  On my
system, the 'find' pipeline spits out

  /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts

which, on a Debian system, is where the URW fonts live (these days;
it seems to change with the years).

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Peter Schaffter

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