Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!mike From: mike@prg.ox.ac.uk (Mike Spivey) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Loading font file (emTeX) Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 12:49:50 GMT References: <1991Mar5.075635.2287@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 16 In-reply-to: cao@ee.su.oz.au's message of 5 Mar 91 07:56:35 GMT Like Longjian Cao, I use emTeX and generate fonts as they are needed, but I use dvitype to list the fonts that are used in a document, put the output through a GNU awk script to generate an mfjob script, then run mfjob on that to build only the fonts that aren't already built. That this can be made to work on a PC is a tribute to Eberhard Matthes' skill in building robust tools. The disadvantage is that my stock of fonts has to be kept in .pk files, as mfjob is unable to look inside .fli files. Does this really cost much speed? It certainly costs a lot of space, with all those little files having ~1/2 block wasted space each. Send mail if you'd like the scripts; they're short, but I don't have them here at present. -- Mike Spivey