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Re: makeinfo --pdf broken (! Font \circle=lcircle10 not loadable)


On 26 Mar 2014, at 21:01, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Greetings, Per Mildner!
> 
>>>> I can not get makeinfo --pdf to work on todays Cygwin (same problem in
>>>> both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin installation, on 64-bit Windows 7).
>>>> 
>>>> It looks as if it can not find the lcircle10 font. I have tried installing most of the texlive-collection* packages but none seem to install that font.
>>> 
>>> It's in texlive-collection-latex.  Have you installed it?
> 
>> Thank you! This solved the problem.
> 
>> Should not the Cygwin installer resolve this kind of dependency automatically?
> 
> Depends on the kind of dependency.
> Creating PDF's isn't the primary task of mkinfo.

However, makeinfo --pdf (really texi2any --pdf) invokes texi2dvi and I do not think having texi2dvi makes much sense unless there is a working TeX installation.

> Forcing just about everyone
> to install texlive is just wrong.

Agreed. But having a texi2dvi that is useless is also wrong.


> 
>>> If so, what is the output of "kpsewhich circle10.tfm"?  Here's what I get:
>>> 
>>> $ kpsewhich circle10.tfm
> 
>> Should be "kpsewhich lcircle10.tfm" I assume, otherwise it finds nothing for me.
> 
>>> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/latex-fonts/lcircle10.tfm
> 
> 
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 26.03.2014, <23:59>
> 
> Sorry for my terrible english...
> 

Per Mildner                                     Per.Mildner@sics.se
Swedish Institute of Computer Science


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