From - Tue Apr 1 01:19:50 2003 Return-Path: Received: from mwinf0404.wanadoo.fr (smtp3.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.9/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id h2VNJbbX017630 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:19:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wanadoo.fr (AGrenoble-202-1-2-48.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.13.189.48]) by mwinf0404.wanadoo.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39C63800086 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:19:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 01:22:35 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Kenneth Beesley To: metafont Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Virus-Scanner: AMaVis 0.2.0-pre6 / Virus Scan X-Loop: metafont@nef.ens.fr X-Sequence: 603 Precedence: list Subject: [metafont] problem: package for new font Dear Friends of Metafont, I'm trying to define a package desalph.sty, on the model of tipa.sty, to facilitate use of my desalph font for the Deseret Alphabet, just as tipa.sty facilitates use of the TIPA (IPA) fonts. Typically my documents will need to include both packages: \usepackage{tipa} \usepackage{desalph} The desalph font itself (METAFONT) seems OK. I can view the proofs and I generate (currently) 12pt and 24pt sizes. The Deseret Alphabet is a phonemic alphabet (for English) so I defined an encoding called LDA which is based as closely as possible on the T3 encoding used for tipa; this allows me to use much the same entry shortcuts for both. I have defined desalph.sty (defines \textda{.....} and environment da for Deseret Alphabet) ldaenc.def (defines the LDA encoding) ldadesalph.fd ******** I also have a file ldacmr.fd but do I need this? ********* I'm doing something(s) wrong. When I try to run the following document (in TeXShop 1.28 on Mac OS X 10.2.4) \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{tracefnt} \usepackage{xspace} %\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{desalph} \usepackage{tipa} \title{This is the Title} \author{Kenneth R. Beesley} \date{29 March 2003} \begin{document} \maketitle Here is a test of simple roman text. Here is a test of the TIPA package \begin{IPA}DIs iZ @ tEst\end{IPA}. This is a test of the desalph font \begin{da}dEzirEt \ae{}lf\ae{}bEt\end{da} package. Another test \textda{hw6t Iz D pr6blEm} with this font? \end{document} TeXShop/pdflatex happily loads article.cls, size12.clo, tracefnt.sty, xspace.sty, times.sty, and then (of course) has problems with desalph.sty. ****** First it loads fontenc.sty, because desalph.sty has a line \usepackage[LDA,\f@encoding]{fontenc} to cause ldaenc.def to be loaded. Question: Is this the right way to cause ldaenc.def to be loaded? ****** Then ldaenc.def gets loaded, then ot1enc.def. And I get a message LaTeX Font Info: Redeclaring font encoding OT1 on inputline 38 )))) !Missing = inserted for \ifnum. - l.8 \usepackage {tipa} ? The TeXShop test-consol interface then stops and asks for Tex Input. If I enter a newline, the processing continues, loading tipa.sty--- and my document, including the desired Deseret Alphabet text, actually gets generated. So I'm almost there. If anyone could clarify the "Redeclaring font encoding OT1" and "Missing = for \ifnum" messages and help me load the font encoding(s) correctly, I would be most grateful. Ken Beesley From - Mon Apr 7 22:42:29 2003 Return-Path: Received: from mwinf0504.wanadoo.fr (smtp2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.26]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.9/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id h37KgHbX065726 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:42:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wanadoo.fr (AGrenoble-202-1-3-102.abo.wanadoo.fr [80.14.224.102]) by mwinf0504.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 55A0A1001167; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:42:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:45:22 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Kenneth Beesley To: macosx-tex , metafont , Pierre VINET , Nelson Beebe , bdesgraupes@easyconnect.fr, FUKUI Rei , home Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Virus-Scanner: AMaVis 0.2.0-pre6 / Virus Scan X-Loop: metafont@nef.ens.fr X-Sequence: 604 Precedence: list Subject: [metafont] Problem: New METAFONT font; installing in a package RE: New METAFONT font; installing it via a package [involves NFSS, new font encoding, tracing a font-loading problem] (I'm using TeXShop 1.28 (pdflatex) on a TiBook running OS X 10.2.4. In general, everything is working for me.) I'm having some difficulty loading my new METAFONT font, called Desalph, via a _package_. I'd be very grateful for any help from people who know NFSS, font encodings, and packages better than I do. I've tried to write a new package called desalph.sty on the model of the tipa.sty package that allows you to load and use the International Phonetic Alphabet. So just as you indicate \usepackage{tipa} to be able to use IPA in your documents I want to be able to indicate \usepackage{desalph} to use the Deseret Alphabet in my documents. I've tried to follow the model of the tipa.sty code as much as possible, but I'm doing something slightly wrong and don't know how to trace it. It may well have to do with loading a new font encoding. tipa.sty uses the T3 font encoding, which it loads (in tipa.sty) with a command like \RequirePackage[T3, \f@encoding]{fontenc} (tipa.sty has encoding options that complicate the code.) This command causes the t3enc.def file to be loaded. The Deseret Alphabet is a phonemic alphabet for English, so I based the encoding as closely as possible on T3, which allows me to use most of the same inputting shortcuts. The Desalph font uses my own LDA encoding, defined in ldaenc.def, and my desalph.sty file has a command \RequirePackage[LDA, \f@encoding]{fontenc} It _may_ be here that something is going wrong. Here's the runtime behavior. The start of a typical sample .tex file looks like this: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage[infoshow]{tracefnt} \usepackage{graphics} \usepackage{rotating} \usepackage{alltt} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{desalph} \usepackage{latexsym} \pagestyle{empty} \renewcommand{\abstractname}{Document Identification} \begin{abstract}[Letter: Orson Pratt, Sen. (in SLC) to D.O. Calder (in New York City), 1 June 1868.] \end{abstract} \begin{document} .... \end{document} When I typeset the document using TeXShop (or calling pdflatex directly) the loading of packages goes well until \usepackage{desalph}, at which time TeXShop stops and prints !Missing = inserted for \ifnum. and waits for me to enter Tex Input: Question: can anyone help me understand what that means? Here's the screen display starting from the (successful) loading of times.sty (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty) /Users/beesley/Library/texmf/tex/latex/desalph/desalph.sty (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/Users/beesley/Library/texmf/tex/latex/desalph/ldaenc.def) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tetex/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.def LaTeX Font Info: Redeclaring font encoding OT1 on input line 38. ))) !Missing = inserted for \ifnum. - l.9 \usepackage {latexsym} ? Tex Input: It's at this point that TeXShop/pdflatex stops and asks for "TeX Input", which I don't understand. If I just enter a newline, then it somehow continues to load the package latexsym and prints out LaTeX Font Info: Overwriting symbol font 'lasy' in verion 'bold' (Font) U/lasy/m/n -->U/lasy/b/n on input line 42. !LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document} at which point it stops again, asking for "TeX Input:" If I enter another newline, then typesetting continues and my document comes out perfectly. So everything seems to be working, except that processing always stops twice during typesetting, forcing me to respond with newlines to get it going again. Very annoying. Here's the information in the .log file. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/times.sty Package: times 2002/09/08 PSNFSS-v9.0a (SPQR) ) (/Users/beesley/Library/texmf/tex/latex/desalph/desalph.sty Package: desalph 2003-03-31 DESALPH version 0.2 (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty Package: fontenc 2001/06/05 v1.94 Standard LaTeX package (/Users/beesley/Library/texmf/tex/latex/desalph/ldaenc.def File: ldaenc.def 2003-03-31 DESALPH font-definition file ) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.def File: ot1enc.def 2001/06/05 v1.94 Standard LaTeX file LaTeX Font Info: Redeclaring font encoding OT1 on input line 38. ))) ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum. - l.9 \usepackage {latexsym} ? Can anyone give me a clue as to what is going wrong and how to fix it? Thanking you in anticipation. Ken ken.beesley@xrce.xerox.com From - Tue Apr 8 06:33:41 2003 Return-Path: Received: from smarthost2.mail.easynet.fr (smarthost2.mail.easynet.fr [212.180.1.69]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.9/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id h384XTbX030457 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:33:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.180.63.163] (helo=easyconnect.fr) by smarthost2.mail.easynet.fr with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192knY-0001wt-00; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:33:29 +0200 Message-Id: <3E92511B.51B10430@easyconnect.fr> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:33:31 +0200 From: Bernard Desgraupes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [fr] (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: fr Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Kenneth Beesley Cc: metafont Subject: Re: [metafont] Problem: New METAFONT font; installing in a package References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanner: AMaVis 0.2.0-pre6 / Virus Scan X-Loop: metafont@nef.ens.fr X-Sequence: 605 Precedence: list > > > When I typeset the document using TeXShop (or calling pdflatex > directly) the loading of > packages goes well until \usepackage{desalph}, at which time TeXShop > stops and prints > !Missing = inserted for \ifnum. > and waits for me to enter Tex Input: > > Question: can anyone help me understand what that means? Kenneth, this looks like there is simply some syntax error in your .sty file. It would help us if we could see the code in this file. Bernard