Re: T1 and Polish

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:08:03PM +0100, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:57:23PM +0100, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I am experiencing strange problem with texpower. I am from Poland and want
> >>to use babel with polish option. I also want to use fontenc T1 to be able
> >>to write some Polish diacritical characters.
> >>
> >>\documentclass[12pt]{article}
> >>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> >>\usepackage[latin2]{inputenc}
> >>\usepackage{tpslifonts}
> >[cut]
> >>But this gives me error:
> >>
> >>Warning: pdflatex (file eclq8): Font eclq8 at 1200 not found
> >>Warning: pdflatex (file eclq8): Font eclq8 at 900 not found
> >>Warning: pdflatex (file ecltt8): Font ecltt8 at 975 not found
> >>Warning: pdflatex (file eclq8): Font eclq8 at 975 not found
> >>Warning: pdflatex (file eclq8): Font eclq8 at 1866 not found
> >>
> >>and generates empty PDF.
> >>
> >>What should I do? Please anwser fast.
> >
> >1) Don't use tpslifonts.
> 
> That is the bad choice. :-) I have presentation to write and I need some 
> big presentation like fonts for pdfLaTeX.

For a presentation you should consider using a presentation class like beamer
or foils or seminar/powersem.

> >2) Fix your tex distribution so tpslifonts works.
> >
> >PS! 2) isn't a texpower issue and should be discussed on the mailing list
> >for your tex distribution. I checked and at least teTeX and MiKTeX contains
> >the eclq as metafont source (texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/eclq8.mf) and
> >compiles your example without problems.
> 
> 
> Sorry if this is wrong list!
> 
> But... I _have_ teTeX. And I have this font
> 
> $ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/eclq8.mf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1809 lis 15 00:31 
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/ec/eclq8.mf
> 
> I have teTeX 2.0.2 from Gentoo. And everything seems to be working fine 
> but TeXPower, so I written to this list. I am not very experienced with 
> pdfTeX. Does anybody know what should I do? Should I report bug to Gentoo 
> or to some teTeX list?

You should report it to the teTeX mailing list. The problem is that pdftex
doesn't generate the pk fonts from the metafont source automatically. Run
latex and then dvips on the file  - ignoring the errors - and then pdftex and
you should be fine, since dvips generated the pk-fonts for you.

The reason there is a big difference between using "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}"
or not is that many fonts doesn't exist in type1 format with T1 encoding and
hence you need the pk-fonts. When you exclude "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" there
are type1 fonts and there is no need to generated pk-fonts.

Once again - this is not a texpower/tpslifonts issue.

Hans 


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