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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Missing metric file flag
From:       joe ferguson <jferguson () nc ! rr ! com>
Date:       2005-03-30 21:53:48
Message-ID: 424B1FEC.90808 () nc ! rr ! com
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Thanks, Mats.  I haven't entered the lyrics yet; I may have to reopen 
this question when I do that.  And the  .../sauter directory is indeed 
in the right place.

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> This is a standard font file that should be available if you have a 
> complete teTeX
> installation. It's possible that SuSE has split the installation of 
> teTeX into several
> separate packages and that you have to install some more of these. To 
> be precise,
> all the cmbxti8.* files of a normal teTeX installation are created 
> automatically on
> the fly the first time you use the font. If SuSE lets you search for 
> which package
> contains a certain file, you should for example look for the file 
> b-cmbxti.mf, which
> normally is installed in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/sauter/
>
> To answer your direct question, the font is used for lyrics, among 
> others.
> Note also that the font handling is different both in LilyPond version 
> 2.4 and
> the coming version 2.6, compared to 2.2.
>
>   /Mats
>
>   /Mats
>
> joe ferguson wrote:
>
>> Running ly on Linux (SuSE 9.2) on athlon64.  I get problems due to a 
>> missing file, as shown in the log file, below:
>>
>> lilypond (GNU LilyPond) 2.2.6
>> Running lilypond-bin...
>> Now processing `Song.ly'
>> Parsing...
>> Interpreting music... [8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64][72][80][88][96]
>> [104][112][120][128][133]
>> Preprocessing graphical objects... Calculating line breaks... 
>> [3][6][9][12][15][18][21][24][27][30][33]
>> [36][39][42][45][48][51][54][57][60][63][66][69][72][75][78][81][84]
>> [87][90][93][96][99][102][105][108][111][114][117][120][123][126][129][132][133] 
>>
>> kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmbxti8
>> mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; 
>> nonstopmode; input cmbxti8
>> This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.4.5)
>> kpathsea: Running mktexmf cmbxti8
>>
>> ! I can't find file `cmbxti8'.
>> <*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmbxti8
>>                                                  Please type another 
>> input file name
>> ! Emergency stop.
>> <*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input cmbxti8
>>                                                  Transcript written 
>> on mfput.log.
>> mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; 
>> input cmbxti8' failed.
>> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>> warning: kpathsea can not find TFM file: `cmbxti8'
>> warning: can't find font: `cmbxti8'
>> warning: Loading default font
>>
>> paper output to `Song.tex'...
>>
>>
>> Analyzing Song.tex...
>> Running ...
>> lilypond: error: LaTeX failed on the output file.
>> lilypond: error: The error log is as follows:
>>
>> ! Font \magfontIIGXBomEMBo=cmbxti8 scaled 992 not loadable: Metric 
>> (TFM) file n
>> ot found.
>> l.48 \font\magfontIIGXBomEMBo=cmbxti8 scaled 992
>>                                                I wasn't ab
>> LATEX output to `Song.latex'...
>> TEX output to `Song.tex'...
>>
>> What grob is it trying to greate with this font?  I haven't been able 
>> to isolate the problem yet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>

-- 
Joe Ferguson





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