From kde-bugs-dist  Mon Apr 19 11:28:31 1999
From: Markku Hihnala <Markku.Hihnala () ees2 ! oulu ! fi>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:28:31 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#1216: Kdvi does not work wit virtual fonts?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=92452172730740

Lengyel Sandor wrote:
> 
> To: submit@bugs.kde.org
> From: hunnia@elender.hu
> Subject: kdvi doesnot work with tex virtual fonts.
> Package: kdvi (graphics)
> Version: 1.1 or later
> 
> I added the zpshal font to my TEX library. (It is used as a virtual font
> to remap characters and add hungarian umlaut.  Updated the psfonts.map,
> 
> as:
> 
> rzpshals Shelley-AllegroScript  <<zpshals.pfb
> 
> (Note rzpshals stands for raw unmapped zpshals)
> 
> rehashed the TEX.
> 
> when I use xdvi on a dvi file which uses zpshals I have no problem, but
> when I use kdvi I get the following message:
> 
> 
> kpathsea: Running mktexmf  zpshals
> ! I can't find file `zpshals'.
> <*> ...g:=magstep(3.0); nonstopmode; input zpshals
> 

As the above message indicates the virtual font file is not found.
Setting the environment variable VFFONTS should suffice:

export VFFONTS=/usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf//

Note the double slashes at the end to specify recursive searches.

If you use a newer tetex you can also use:

export PKFONTS=`kpsepath pk` VFFONTS=`kpsepath vf`

This will use the proper settings from your tex system and also set the
path for pk fonts, so you don't need to set it in the preferences
dialog.

The above settings are needed for newer tex systems that use kpathsea
version 3.2 as kdvi-0.4.3 includes version 2.6 which is not quite
compatible.

-
Markku

> Of course if in tex I change the font to rzpshals, which is called out
> in the psfonts map, it will find that, but then my output is wrong.
> (i.e. the accented vowels.
> 
> --
>  Lengyel Sándor
> 
> Hass, alkoss, gyarapits,
> S a haza fényre derül. (Kölcsey)