[fol] Re: RH6.2J with ptex/dvips

[Haruhiko Okumura <okumura _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Akira Kakuto" <kakuto _at_ jcom.home.ne.jp> writes:

> "Michael Eng" <menet _at_ ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message m366oek5gp.fsf _at_ mutated.seabass">news:m366oek5gp.fsf _at_ mutated.seabass...
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am trying to use Japanese pLaTeX on RedHat 6.2/J, as supplied in the
> > packages tetex-latex-*-1.0.6-11j4.
> > 
> > Running platex foo works without problems, and the output previews correctly
> > in xdvi foo.
> > 
> > However, if I run dvips foo, the attached error comes out (sorry for the long
> > dump).  This is a plain, unfiddled-with installation straight from the
> > distribution rpms.  kpsewhich min10.tfm returns
> > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/ptex/min10.tfm.  Is this a bug?
> (0)
> First, try the command mktexlsr.
> (1)
> Check if
> kpsewhich min10.vf
> returns
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/ptex/min10.vf
> or not. If not, check the variable VFFONTS in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf.
> It may be  VFFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/vf//
> (2)
> Check the file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/psfonts.map.
> It should contain entries like
> rml         Ryumin-Light-H
> rmlv        Ryumin-Light-V
> gbm         GothicBBB-Medium-H
> gbmv        GothicBBB-Medium-V
> 
> PS:
> Obtained PS file foo.ps can be printed by Japanese PostScript printer,
> or GhostScript with Japanese support.
> -- 
> Akira Kakuto <kakuto _at_ jcom.home.ne.jp>

A quicker answer might be to use ptex* rpm's from Vine Linux 2.0.

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