Re: Font problems

[Mats Bengtsson]

Please always specify a subject on your emails. In these
days when there are lot of spam and virus emails, it was
just about to delete your email withour reading it.

Also, always tell what operating system you use (and what
distribution if it is a Linux systems) and how you installed
LilyPond (from source code or from some package).


Jan Kohnert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 02:34 schrieb Joe Krame:
>
> > GNU LilyPond 1.6.6
> > Now processing: `test.ly'
> > Parsing...
> > error: can't find `feta20.afm'
> > Fonts have not been installed properly.  Aborting
>
>
> Tex cannot find the fonts, which should have been installed in
> $PREFIX/lilypond/fonts/afm/
> (f.e. for SuSE rpm) or
> $PREFIX/lilypond/$VERSION/fonts/afm/
> What says "kpsewhich feta20.afm" ?
>
> There are two scripts in the installation
> lilypond.profile and lilypond.login
> which sould be executed right at login time and set the correct paths for tex.
>
> If this is for some reason not possible for you, try to add the correct font 
> paths in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf 
> (BUT BE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!)
> and than do a "texhash".

This should never be necessary. If Jan knew more details about the
LilyPond installation, I'm sure he would never recommend this solution,
especially not since there are many more files than the .afm files that
have to be known to the TeX related programs.


   /Mats