Re: font troubles with teTeX 2.0.2

On Monday 09 June 2003 02:07, Lars Engebretsen wrote:
> Alexej Kryukov <[email protected]> writes:
> > Also I see that omega's font utilities don't work and ovp2ovf can't
> > process my .ovp files. I remember that the problem was discussed
> > in this list some time ago. Is it still not fixed?
>
> Did you get any feeback on this; I'm also interested in the reply.
>
> In particular, I have not been able to find any ovp2ovf that produces
> font files readable by omega. Sometimes ovp2ovf gives a segmentation
> fault and if it doesn't, omega complains with "Bad metric (TFM/OFM)
> file".

Which TeX distribution do you use? I've never experienced such problems.
I know that some people have troubles with level-1 OFM files.
However, all my fonts are level-0 and I still can't process them.

I use fontinst to generate ovp files, and so each character description
includes a comment. For example:

(CHARACTER D 32 (COMMENT space)
   (CHARWD R 0.264)
   (MAP
      (SETCHAR D 32) (COMMENT space)
      )
   )

ovp2ovf reports parse error on each line containing such a
comment, although this syntaxis is absolutely correct.

Recently I had to install Syllable (former AtheOS) in 
addition to my SuSE desktop. Why?
Of course, this OS can't be used for regular work, but
it contains old good teTeX 1.0 with working omega font 
utilities! Under Syllable anything seems to be compiled
correctly. I haven't yet tested the resulting ovf and
ofm files though...