fontinst question This question probably ought to be sent to the fontinst mailing list, but
I've changed email address since I subscribed to that one *and* lost the
information on how to subscribe.  So for my first question: can anyone tell
me how to subscribe to the fontinst mailing list?

And for my second question, assuming that everyone subscribed to the
fontinst list is subscribed to this one...

I've just tried installing the Adobe part of the Univers family using
fontinst 1.801.  Using \\latinfamily,

punro8ac.afm
punr8ac.afm
punlo8ac.afm
punl8ac.afm
punbo8ac.afm
punb8ac.afm

get ignored.  Is this appropriate?  I can't help feeling that it'd make
sense for \\latinfamily to look out for condensed variants.

But aside from that, when I try installing the above founts using:

\\installfonts
% begin Univers condensed install
\\transformfont{punr8rc}{\\reencodefont{8r}{\\fromafm{punr8ac}}}
\\transformfont{punro8rc}{\\reencodefont{8r}{\\fromafm{punro8ac}}}

\\transformfont{punl8rc}{\\reencodefont{8r}{\\fromafm{punl8ac}}}
\\transformfont{punlo8rc}{\\reencodefont{8r}{\\fromafm{punlo8ac}}}

\\transformfont{punb8rc}{\\reencodefont{8r}{\\fromafm{punb8ac}}}
\\transformfont{punbo8rc}{\\reencodefont{8r}{\\fromafm{punbo8ac}}}


   \\installfont {punr8tc} {punr8rc, latin} {T1}    {t1}  {pun}{mc}{n} {}
   \\installfont {punr8tc} {punr8rc, latin} {OT1}   {ot1} {pun}{mc}{n} {}
   \\installfont {punr8tc} {punr8rc, latin} {T1c}   {t1}  {pun}{mc}{sc}{}
   \\installfont {punr8tc} {punr8rc, latin} {OT1c}  {ot1} {pun}{mc}{sc}{}
   \\installfont {punr8tc} {punro8rc,latin} {T1}    {t1}  {pun}{mc}{sl}{}
   \\installfont {punr8tc} {punro8rc,latin} {OT1}   {ot1} {pun}{mc}{sl}{}

   \\installfont {punl8tc} {punl8rc, latin} {T1}    {t1}  {pun}{lc}{n} {}
   \\installfont {punl8tc} {punl8rc, latin} {OT1}   {ot1} {pun}{lc}{n} {}
   \\installfont {punl8tc} {punlo8rc,latin} {T1}    {t1}  {pun}{lc}{sl}{}
   \\installfont {punl8tc} {punlo8rc,latin} {OT1}   {ot1} {pun}{lc}{sl}{}

   \\installfont {punb8tc} {punb8rc, latin} {T1}    {t1}  {pun}{bc}{n} {}
   \\installfont {punb8tc} {punb8rc, latin} {OT1}   {ot1} {pun}{bc}{n} {}
   \\installfont {punb8tc} {punbo8rc,latin} {T1}    {t1}  {pun}{bc}{sl}{}
   \\installfont {punb8tc} {punbo8rc,latin} {OT1}   {ot1} {pun}{bc}{sl}{}

% end Univers condensed install
\\endinstallfonts

I get the expected pl and vpl files, but no fd files.  What do I have to do
to persuade it to write the required fd file entries?  It strikes me that
this ought to happen by default - if not, what *is* the point of the last 5
arguments to \\installfont?

Anyone got any thoughts?

Cheers
Rowland.



