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This directory contains files that help installing an ancient Greek
-font in TeX-GPC. The font includes a full set of diacritical marks,
+font in TeX-FPC. The font includes a full set of diacritical marks,
the preclassic letters digamma, quoppa and sampi, and the lunatic
variant of sigma.
The font was originally cut by Firmin Didot(*1764, +1836), put into
METAFONT files by Silvio Levy in 1987 and improved by Pierre A. MacKay,
-the author of Ibycus4. Here I used version 4.5 as of
-2004-10-27.
+the author of Ibycus4. Here I used version 4.5 as of 2004-10-27.
Preparation:
------------
-Get the packages ibygrk and levy from CTAN:fonts/greek and copy
-files from levy and ibygrk directories into this directory, with
-the shellscripts getlevy and getiby.
+Get the packages ibygrk and levy from CTAN:fonts/greek and unzip them
+in the MFT directory, so ibygrk and levy are siblings to iby.
+ftp ftp://tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/levy.zip
+ftp ftp://tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/ibygrk.zip
+
+Copy files from the levy and ibygrk directories into this directory,
+with the shell scripts getlevy and getiby.
Link METAFONT's and TeX's master directories to this directory, so
you can run mf and tex from here. Make sure MFinputs contains
@@ -82,6 +85,15 @@ guillemets << >>
Look at test.tex and sappho.tex for examples.
+If you get messages like that
+ Font \ninegrk=fibr84 at 9.0pt not loaded: Not enough room left.
+you want to enlarge TeX's memory.
+Compile TeX with statistics turned on, set \tracingstats=1
+and observe the statistics at the end. Then you might change the
+constant in tex.p, compile with
+ fpc -Fasysutils,baseunix,unix tex.p
+and try with the bigger tex.
+
Installing the Type 1 fonts in teTeX3.0:
----------------------------------------
List the search directory with `kpsewhich -show-path=.pfb'
@@ -95,4 +107,6 @@ Finally I added the command line option `-u +iby' to dvips
in the dvipdf script.
Aug. 2008
+-
+Nov. 2020
Wolfgang Helbig