Re: Unable to use URW Garamond No. 8 Type 1 typeface

[email protected] said the following at 06/05/2006 04:54 AM :

> Can you post a summary for the archive?  Since 'getnonfreefonts'
> worked for me, I'm curious as to whether your problem was the result
> of some difference in the install procedures (in which case some
> document needs updating) or some difference in the underlying tex
> configuration that may affect other users, other fonts, etc.
>=20

I don't know what "getnonfreefonts" is, but in any case there seem to hav=
e
been several steps involved to get it all working properly.

1. The first thing was to completely clean my local texmf, .texmf-config
and .texmf-var directories.

2. Then I re-ran "updmap --enable Map ugm.map" (it seems like I should ha=
ve
run "sync" or perhaps logged out/in before I ran it the first time -- I
really don't know why it didn't "take" the first time, but the output the
second time I ran it was *very* different from the first time).

3. In the TeX file, I had to use:
  \font\rm=3Dugmr8t at 12pt
(trying to use ugmr8r produced output with the words all run together --
this, I think was the one thing that we didn't solve; on Ralf's system
ugmr8r worked OK, on mine it did not).

4. I had in place in the TeX file (which was an old file from more than a
decade ago) some conversions to handle non-ASCII characters. For example,=
 I
had:

% u umlaut =3D 252
\catcode`=C3=BC=3D\active
\def=C3=BC{{\"u}}

Those conversions had to be turned off.

5. I had to make a few new conversions, based on a dump of the font map.
For example I had to define a sterling character:

% =C2=A3
\catcode`=C2=A3=3D\active
\def=C2=A3{{\char"BF}}

since the original conversion mapped the sterling character to a characte=
r
that I don't know how to make on my keyboard (a c with something like a
little u above it)

I think that was the lot. I got pretty frustrated a couple of times, but
Ralf was incredibly patient and worked through it all step by step.

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