This directory contains Metafont sources, for use by TeX typesetting
program, for Pandora fonts. These fonts are:
Copyright (c) 1989 by Neenie. N. Billawala
but they were released for a general use. Original font files can
be retrieved by ftp from, among other places, ymir.claremont.edu.
A difference between this and general distribution is that here
it was added NeXT specific (or rather dvips specific) Makefile
which allows an easy generation of neccessary metric files and
initial bitmaps needed for an installation. There is also one
more sample file illustrating fonts in a context of a real text.
Thanks are in order to Lones A. Smith <lones@lones.mit.edu>,
who suffered as an UNINTENTIONAL guinea-pig through initial
iterations of this installation setup.
ATTENTION!
The provided Makefile goes to some length to ensure a correct operation
even if you modified your various environment variables. Still it
relies on a correct /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK and the one provided originally
by NeXT had some problems. If you did not modify it to adjust to your
local conditions you may just replace it with MakeTeXPK provided here.
Otherwise ensure that MFINPUTS variable is set to contain the current
working directory and that it will not clobber defaults if originally
not set. One way to do that is to include the following line:
MFINPUTS=`pwd`:${MFINPUTS-/usr/lib/mf/inputs}; export MFINPUTS
preceding line which says 'mkdir $TEMPDIR'. See provided MakeTeXPK
for a model when in doubt.
It is an unfortunate fact that some Pandora files have names, like
caps.mf or number.mf, are not specific enough and may possibly
conflict with names of other Metafont sources. This is not the case
when you have on your system only regular CM fonts and AMS collection.
It may happen when you added some other extra fonts. In such
situation your only recourse is to change these names and edit
corresponding .mf files which rely on them. Even installing Pandora
sources in their own subdirectory, which obvously should be added to
MFINPUTS, will not help a lot since when making fonts Metafont may
grab a wrong file anyway. You may, of course, modify your
MakeTeXPK to behave smarter and use subdirectories, but if you know
how to do that you do not need my instructions. :-)
Steps to test and install Pandora fonts on NeXT
===============================================
1) Go to ./pandora subdirectory
2) Check in Makefile its header comment and directories which will
be used for an installation (MFFILES, TFMFILES, LOCALPKS).
Adjust to taste.
3) In Terminal window type
make -k ; make -k print
Metafont will complain about errors when generating screen fonts.
Disregard! This resolution is too small. Print bitmaps will be OK.
(This double 'make' is due to a misfeature/bug in NeXT make).
4) Go for a longer coffe break or lunch, since the first time around
it will take a while.
5) Examine printed output and .dvi files with TeXview.
6) If you liked results become a root and type
make install
Exit root sheel. Fonts are already installed.
7) If you do not want to keep Pandora installed do (as root)
make deinstall
When doing 'make deinstall' make will remove from LOCALPKS
all bitmaps with names in a pattern 'pn[brst]*pk'. It is not
very likely that this will affect non-Pandora fonts, but be
careful.
8) To cleanup leftovers after installation do
make clobber (or 'make clean' for gentler cleaning)
9) These steps will not put LateX style pandora.sty into a directory
listed in TEXINPUTS. This is left at your discretion. The style
pandora.sty, when unmodified, requires Euler fonts from AMS
collection and Concrete Roman for non-math numerals.
10) pandora.sty is meant to work with NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme).
If you did not upgrade yet your installation to it then use
instead an alternative pandora_old.sty. It is far less extensive
and not as flexible but in a pinch it should do.
Happy TeXing,
Michal Jaegermann
ntomczak@vm.cms.ualberta.ca
ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.