[Aleph] ovp2ovf, font_install_unicode and the Mac

[Marc Wilhelm Küster]

Hello all,

The recent weeks and months have been relatively silent on this list as
everybody seems to have been busy with a other tasks (certainly that is
true for me, even though I am only a simple user).

That is not to say that from a practical purpose nothing has happened
--- I am very grateful for Giuseppe  to have integrated Aleph into teTeX
3. In fact, Aleph was hailed as one of the major improvements in teTeX 3
in what may very well be Germany's leading, general purpose computer
magazine, c't. For me as a user, it is infinitely more convenient to
load that teTeX-version with aleph and lamed preloaded via fink (for my
Mac OS X notebook) and apt-get (for the Debian desktop, though without
'direct' lamed) than to compile everything directly from the texlive
sources (which are not all that easily accessible, for that matter).

I do have a minor problem on the Mac, though, that is associated to
ovp2ovf. To integrate Unicode fonts I have so far used the
font_install_unicode.pl of Vincent Zoonekynd (cf.
http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/FontInstallUnicode/). That script depends on
ttf2tfm and an old version of ovp2ovf, namely version 1.11 from
TeXLive6, whereas the current version 2.0 doesn't seem to work. ("Si
vous avez un problème du genre "Bad metric (TFM/OFM) file", cela
provient sûrement de la version de ovp2ovf utilisée : je constate que
les versions 1.15 et 2.0 ne marchent pas, alors que la version 1.11, qui
était sur le CD TeXLive6 marchait très bien." from the above URL)

Vincent Zoonekynd offers a binary version of the linux ovp2ovf 1.11 for
download, but neither the source nor a binary for Mac OS X. I cannot
find it on the web, either, nor do I have access to a TeXLive6 CD. Does
anybody of you have by any chance access to either the old code or a Mac
binary (or, even better, of course, the news that everything is fixed
now in some ovp2ovf > 2.0)?

Many thanks for any hint,

Marc