Re: Problem with \installfont in fontinst 1.8

[Rebecca and Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com>]

>> Hmm...  Yes, but...  The individual using fontinst does need to know which
>> pl files are needed and how to create them.  A trivial point, perhaps, but
>> it shouldn't be neglected.
>
>That's why I put in the following paragraph, when I revised your manual.
>
>  Note that \pl files are not normally kept in \TeX\ installations, so
>  if you want to use MF fonts with \fontinst you have to generate the
>  corresponding \pl files from \tfm files and put them in your working
>  directory before running \fontinst.

Wonderful!

>Did you miss that?

It seems I did - thanks very much for adding this point; I've just tracked
it down - the reason I missed it is that I didn't bother re-reading the
installation section because installing fontinst is trivial even for me and
it's the rest of the manual that needs serious work.

It's a good job someone knows what they're doing :-)

btw, do you think it might be a good idea to change the formatting of the
fontinst user guide so it uses normal indented paragraphs rather than
leaving a vertical space between them?

Thanks
Rowland