[OS X TeX] Help: Hieroglyphs and Font not Found

[Gerben Wierda]

Officially, you need to find the Hiero map file and then say  
something like

     updmap --enable MAP hiero.map

Then after a updmap run, the map files for dvips. pdftex etc are  
recreated with the inclusion of your font info

Is Hiero TDS compliant these days? I looked into it  a while back and  
then it wasn't

G

On 11 Oct 2005, at 02:47, Yann Ricard wrote:

> Peter !!!!!!
>
> You are my King of Kings. The Bull of His Mother (a title reserved  
> to the greatest of all Egyptian pharaohs!)
> Believe it or not, I had been banging my head on the wall about  
> this for the past two weeks!
>
>
> THE PROBLEM
> ------------------------
> As you had surmised, there was indeed another .map file which did  
> not have the info about the Hiero fonts.
>
>         /sw/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
>
> actually, that was an alias (er... symbolic link) to
>
>         /sw/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts_t1.map
>
> That was perverse, because I had suspected there could be another  
> psfonts.map, but when I searched the drive for another TEXT file  
> named psfonts.map, it turned up nothing. Of course, it didn't. I  
> was looking for a text file, but it was a link, so it didn't show  
> up... Drat!
>
>
> THE DIAGNOSIS
> -------------------------
> Your method was invaluable. However, I strayed a little:
> 1) Instead of using eMacs (sorry), I opened /sw/bin/dvipdf with  
> BBEdit.
> 2) I commented out the last line - which in my copy of dvipdf read:
> exec dvips -q -f "$infile" | gs $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH - 
> sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$outfile" $OPTIONS -c .setpdfwrite -
> 3) I copied the line and added the -d 64 options
> 4) I saved the file (providing my Admin passwd).
> 5 ) I ran dvips test.dvi
> 6) BINGO!, I found the reference to the "unknown" map file.
>
>
> THE CURE
> -----------------
> 1) I opened the .map file that had all the references about my  
> desired fonts in BBEdit and copied the relevant lines.
> 2) I opened /sw/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts_t1.map  
> in BBEdit and pasted the lines from the other .map file
>
> Note that I completely disregarded the warning that read:
>                     %   Don't change this file directly. Edit texmf/ 
> web2c/updmap.cfg
>                     %   and run updmap to recreate this file.
>
> Somehow, even though I brute-forced it (it's not just that I am  
> lazy, it's that I could not figure how to invoke udpmap), it seems  
> to work beautifully.
>
>
> Thank you! Thank you! Thank You! Thank You!
>
> Yann
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