I am trying to use the hieroglyph package (variously known as hiero or HieroTeX) for typesetting Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Having read related questions [1] [2] [3] I followed the following steps:
- Download the ZIP archive from CTAN.
- Unzip and use WinZip to unzip the two TGZ files and their contents.
- Copy the two
texmffolders into a single folder, which I calledtexmf-hiero. - Using the MikTeX Console, added the
textmf-hierofolder to the list of root directories. - Using the MikTeX Console, ran 'Refresh file name database' and 'Refresh font map files'.
- Attempted to run this minimal example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{egypto}
\usepackage[psfonts]{hiero}
\begin{document}
\begin{hieroglyph}
A1 \end{hieroglyph}
\end{document}
The console output is:
entering extended mode
(C:/Users/dbmag/Documents/latex/hiero.tex
LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 4
L3 programming layer <2021-05-11>
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/base\article.cls
Document Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/base\size12.clo))
(C:/Users/dbmag/Documents/Egyptian/texmf-hiero\tex/latex/hierotex\egypto.sty
egypto.sty V2.0a (second NUMBERED VERSION :-)
(C:/Users/dbmag/Documents/Egyptian/texmf-hiero\tex/latex/hierotex\EgypUtil.sty)
(C:/Users/dbmag/Documents/Egyptian/texmf-hiero\tex/latex/hierotex\OT1diacr.fd))
(C:/Users/dbmag/Documents/Egyptian/texmf-hiero\tex/latex/hierotex\hiero.sty
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/base\ifthen.sty)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics\graphicx.sty
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics\keyval.sty)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics\graphics.sty
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics\trig.sty)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics-cfg\graphics.cfg)
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/graphics-def\pdftex.def)))Running miktex-makemf.exe...
Sorry, but miktex-makemf did not succeed.
The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
C:\Users\dbmag\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex\log\miktex-makemf.log
Running miktex-hbf2gf.exe...
Couldn't open `Hier.cfg'
hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.8.4)
Sorry, but miktex-maketfm did not succeed.
The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:
C:\Users\dbmag\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\miktex\log\miktex-maketfm.log
! Font \GA=HieroA scaled 1440 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
\relax
l.136 @declareHieroglyphicFonts
?
Does anybody have any insight into how to resolve this? I'm happy to provide any other information that would be useful.
sesh.exepreprocessor to operate but the font issue seems to be resolved. – dbmag9 May 24 '21 at 17:03