Installing tengwar fonts in Linux

Question

I have been following the accepted answer to this question, but cannot get it to work.

Here is my font directory:

$ ls -lAh /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/annatar
total 940K
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 2.4K Apr  7  2004 readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422K Aug  7 10:31 tengwar_annatar.zip
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  42K Apr  7  2004 tnganbi.ttf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  41K Apr  7  2004 tnganb.ttf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 338K Apr  7  2004 tngandoc.pdf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  41K Apr  7  2004 tngani.ttf
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  40K Apr  7  2004 tngan.ttf

Here is the output of mktexlsr:

$ sudo mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST... 
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN... 
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
mktexlsr: Done.

Here is my test document:

$ cat tengwar.tex 
\documentclass{minimal}
\pdfmapfile{=tengwarscript.map}
\usepackage[annataritalic]{tengwarscript}
\begin{document}
\tengwarannataritalic[2.5]
\tengwa{254}
\Textendedcalma\TTthreedots\Tnuumen\Tessenuquerna\TTthreedots\Tungwe\Tando\Toore\TTrightcurl\Tumbar\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambealt\TTrightcurl\Tquesse\TTdoublerightcurl
\Tromanperiod\Ts
\Textendedcalma\TTthreedots\Tnuumen\Tessenuquerna\TTthreedots\Tungwe\Tungwe\Tumbar\TTnasalizer\TTdot\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambe\TTrightcurl
\tengwa{255}\
\Textendedcalma\TTthreedots\Tnuumen\Tessenuquerna\TTthreedots\Tungwe\Tthuule\Troomen\Tquesse\TTthreedots\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambealt\TTrightcurl\Tquesse\TTdoublerightcurl
\Tromanperiod\Ts
\Textendedungwe\TTthreedots\Tumbar\Toore\TTrightcurl\Tesse\Tkern{-0.2}\Tmalta\TTrightcurl\Textendedcalma\TTdot\Ttelco\TTdot\Tquesse\Troomen\Tparma\TTnasalizer\TTdot\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambe\TTrightcurl
\end{document}

and here is the output of pdflatex:

$ pdflatex tengwar.tex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./tengwar.tex
LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 2
L3 programming layer <2020-02-14>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/minimal.cls
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
){/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}{/usr/share/texlive/texmf-d
ist/fonts/map/dvips/tengwarscript/tengwarscript.map}
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tengwarscript/tengwarscript.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fp/fp-basic.sty
`Basic Fixed Point Arithmetic',  Version 1.2d (C) Michael Mehlich             )
 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fp/fp-snap.sty
`Fixed Point Snap Off',          Version 1.0a (C) Michael Mehlich             )
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tengwarscript/annataritalic.cfg))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdfmode.def)
(./tengwar.aux) [1] (./tengwar.aux) ){/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/d
vips/tengwarscript/tengwarscript.enc}
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file tngani.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for r
eading
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Of course, I can cat tngani.ttf from the directory I am running pdflatex from, but I won't post the output here!

Answer 1

Are you sure that this is the unmodified log output from running pdflatex on your file, in the setting that you describe? When I run your example, I also get an error, but it complains about tnganai.ttf being missing. The message in your log file complains about tngani.ttf being not found. The difference is that tnganai.ttf is indeed not in the font distribution, whereas tngani.ttf is.

This is how I was able to typeset your file.

1. Google for the missing tnganai.ttf. Among the offered locations, I downloaded the fonts from https://fontsdata.com/57983/johan-winge_tengwar-annatar.htm.
2. Proceed as you specified: unpack johan-winge_tengwar-annatar.zip to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/annatar and run mktexlsr.
3. pdflatex tengwar.tex, et voilà ...

Answer 2

If you don't have a good reason not to, use XeLaTeX, as per this answer. The fonts you've installed should then work as expected.