ugroh@t-online.de (Ulrich Groh) writes:

I have installed the cjk-rpm file including the Japanese font files. If I LaTeX all the test-files everything is ok.

If I start xdvi on the produced dvi-files strange things happens:

mktexpk starts up l ooking for the font (e.g. jsso1210) mktexmf jsso1210 ! I can't find file 'jsso1210' .... a lot of more error messages becuase the font isn't found

These are bitmap fonts from the cjk-latex-hbf-kanji48 package. They are *very* ugly. I recommend to use either the Wadalab PostScript fonts or the Kochi TrueType fonts instead. For the Wadalab fonts please install: cjk-latex-wadalab-gothic-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm cjk-latex-wadalab-maru2-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm cjk-latex-wadalab-mincho2-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm cjk-latex-wadalab-maru-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm cjk-latex-wadalab-mincho-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm For the Kochi Fonts please install: cjk-latex-tfm-kochi-mincho-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm cjk-latex-tfm-kochi-gothic-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm ttf-kochi-gothic-0.0.20011005-0.rpm ttf-kochi-mincho-0.0.20010924-0.rpm The Kochi Fonts even work perfectly with vertical printing (they contain the needed GSUB information).

I went over the doc-files and found the remark, taht one has to patch mktexpk with some script whisch I also found in the system.

Q1: Is this really the right way?

Q2: How to patch the file ?

You don't have to patch mktexpk, it already contains support for hbf fonts. If you want to use hbf-bitmap fonts like the 'jsso' fonts from cjk-latex-hbf-kanji48-4.4.0_20010731-0.rpm you need to have the correct entries for hbf fonts in '/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf'. This has changed recently, CJK-LaTeX 4.4.0 (available from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian) and CJK-LaTeX 4.2.0 (available from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/) need different entries in '/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf'. For CJK-LaTeX 4.2.0, '/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf' should contain a line like T1FONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/type1//;$TEXMF/fonts/hbf// For CJK-LaTeX 4.4.0, '/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf' should contain a line like MISCFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/misc//;$TEXMF/fonts/hbf// I guess you are using CJK-LaTeX 4.4.0 from my udate directory with the tetex package from SuSE Linux 7.3, which still has the older entry in '/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf' because SuSE Linux 7.3 contained CJK-LaTeX 4.2.0. -- Mike Fabian <mfabian@suse.de> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。