Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: newbie: jadetex and fonts

[Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore-devel dot com>]

Steve Sarette <steve@sarette.com> writes:

> I've been trying to figure out how to get new fonts known to
> jadetex/pdjadetex so that my PDF and PS output look, well, like they
> should.  If I stick to the standard built in fonts (Palatino, for
> example), everything is fine.  But when I try to use something that
> wasn't installed by default (Garamond, or AGaramond, for example), I
> can't get the thing to work.  The conversion from the *.tex file to dvi
> using jadetex always results in complaints about unknown fonts and font
> substitutions.  Using pdfjadetex results in similar complaints plus a
> truly ugly and unreadable file.
> 
> Clearly I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> So here's my questions: Does anyone know of a document, URL, or
> commercially published manual that describes how to manage fonts for the
> jadetex beastie?  Something that says 'And this is what jadetex wants to
> do with fonts and this is how you make new fonts known to it?' Such a
> thing would surely be useful to more people than me.

I believe it's done just the same as you would do for LaTeX -- see the
LaTeX book.  Once you can convert .tex to .dvi using LaTeX with the
right fonts, it should be easy to go from there and figure out how to
tell JadeTeX to use that as well.

Sorry I don't have more specific notes on this.

-- 
...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>


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