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I am trying to use Hershey Old English Font. The code I am using is, 

\documentclass[danish,a4paper,11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{slantsc}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\setkomafont{subsection}{\usefont{T1}{fvm}{m}{n}}
\setkomafont{section}{\usefont{T1}{fvs}{b}{n}\Large}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\pagestyle{empty}
\newfont{\hge}{hge scaled 1500}
\begin{document}
\section*{Hershey Old English Font}
\subsection*{\textbackslash hge}
\normalfont\hge
\input catalogue
\newpage
\normalfont\hge
\input fonttable
\end{document}

But I get the following error message,

Running hbf2gf.exe...


hbf2gf (CJK ver. 4.8.4)



Couldn't find `h.cfg'

miktex-maketfm: No creation rule for font hge.

! Font \hge=hge scaled 1500 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again> 
               \relax 
l.11 \newfont{\hge}{hge scaled 1500}

?

The same code isn't working in Overleaf either. How to solve this problem?

2 Answers2

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You can download a METAFONT version of the Hershey font from CTAN here: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hershey

This should call more common mechanisms of font generation thanhbf2gf that seems to be wrongly configured on your system.

ADDENDUM: In case that automatic font generation fails, you can always generate the font by hand, calling

mf hge

from the shell.

Sir Cornflakes
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On the page you link to it says "Hershey Old English Font is not part of TEX Live." and ctan only provides the raw metafont-source. That means that you are trying to use a font, that is simply not installed on your system.

You could install it manually (start reading here for example), but as long as don't really need this specific font, it is definitely easier to find another old style font that suits your needs, e.g. here or use a ttf-font with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

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