MikTeX YAP viewer cannot find cmb10

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murray
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MikTeX YAP viewer cannot find cmb10

Post by murray »

I TeX'ed the distributed Test_latex.tex source distributed with mtpro2.
Just two problems -- (1) the \usepackage line needs to be changed to refer to mtpro2 rather than mtpro and (2) the symbols \varGamma and \varOmega are not defined -- but otherwise the TeX'ing went OK.

However, the YAP viewer could not load the requisite cmb10. See the YAP details in "cmb10 Logbook" below.

Here's what I did for installation:
I unzipped the mtpsfont.zip to MiKTex's texmf tree (actually, had to unzip to a temporary directory, then copy, since the top directory in the zip was texmf rather than localtexmf).

I edited localtexmf\web2c\updmap.cfg so as to insert at the end the line:
Map mtpro2.map #localtexmf\dvips\mtpro\mtpro2.map
then I ran mkfntmap (as MiKTeX does not seem to provide a updmap command).
Then I refreshed the MiKTeX filename database.

%%%% cmb10 Logbook %%%%%
Making PK font:
d:\WP\texmf\miktex\bin\makepk.exe --verbose cmb10 600 600 magstep(0.0) ljfour
Trying to make PK font "cmb10" (at 600 DPI)...
Creating "cmb10.pk"...
"mf" \mode:=ljfour; \mag:=magstep(0.0);nonstopmode;input cmb10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (MiKTeX 2.4)

(d:\WP\texmf\fonts\source\public\cm\cmb10.mf
(d:\WP\texmf\fonts\source\public\cm\cmbase.mf)
(d:\WP\texmf\fonts\source\public\cm\roman.mf
! Missing `:' has been inserted
! This can't happen (copy).
mode_param->if.unknown.mode_guard_(EXPR5000)
:(EXPR5000):=(EXPR1);mode_guard_...

ljfour_->mode_param(pixels_per_inch,600)
;mode_param(blacker,0.25);mode_param...
<scantokens> ljfour_

<to be read again>
;
mode_setup->...nput "&mode)else:mode_name[mode]fi;
if.unknown.mag:mag=1;fi.if...
l.12 mode_setup
; font_setup;
Transcript written on cmb10.log.
METAFONT failed for some reason
makepk: METAFONT failed on "cmb10".


Loading 'cmr10' instead.
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Re: MikTeX YAP viewer cannot find cmb10

Post by WaS »

murray wrote:However, the YAP viewer could not load the requisite cmb10. See the YAP details in "cmb10 Logbook" below.
This is a well-known bug in MikTeX.
(Google for the error message "This can't happen" in comp.text.tex.)
Fix: update the format files (miktex->options.)
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