Fonts & Character Setsiching | Startup Problems

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rae_xetal
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iching | Startup Problems

Post by rae_xetal »

Heads up I'm a novice so ...
TexMakerX only updates packages, I think, so can't load iching font or i-ching package from CTAN directories using GUI and can't find what to do otherwise.
Tried copying all the iching font files out to one directory, and same with i-ching package, but the .tex files have build errors like Metric (TFM) file not found ... Undefined Control Sequence ...
Would really appreciate some help. Thanks.

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justdeath
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Re: iching | Startup Problems

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Download the font from here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/iching

Extract the directory to texmf-dist/fonts/source

My path is: C:\texlive\2011\texmf-dist\fonts\source
The required file is: C:\texlive\2011\texmf-dist\fonts\source\iching\iching.mf

Open command prompt, run the command "texhash" (it doesn't matter from where, just run it twice).

Then compile iching.tex and the font should be created (you can copy it to some other location and compile it there; or navigate to the directory written above and compile).

You can also change \documentstyle to \documentclass (in iching.tex), since this package apparently is very old.

Nikolay
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