[Aleph] ovp2ovf, font_install_unicode and the Mac

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Hello Marc, hello all,

Monday, July 4, 2005 Marc Wilhelm Küster wrote:

> 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).

For me specifically, I've been working on my PhD thesis. The
good news is, I've basically reached completion, in the
sense that the research and coding part are done, so what is
missing is the final testset and the actual writing.

> 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.

Wow. Do you have a pointer to this? The more positive
reviews I can get on Aleph, the easier it would be for me to
present the project to my University.

> 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)?

I have not done any work at all on the font metric auxiliary
programs, but IIRC *one* of the issues with the was a simple
matter of line ending. If you *do* have the 1.15 or
subsequent version as binary, could you try converting the
line endings in the ovp file to Mac/Unix/Windows format and
see if any of these work?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta