* Adam Lindsay
At least some of the glyphs came out alright, but a lot of them are missing. For the rest I get little gray squares.
I think you're going to have to convert a lot more than just the U+30xx vector... Japanese covers a whole lot of glyph real-estate.
True, yet almost all the symbols where Katakana, so 0x30xx covers most of them.
1) Eventhough the above procedure seems to work somewhat well, it's still rather complicated and I don't understand why texfont doesn't copy the .enc file to the enc/ directory it creates.
TeXFont is pretty tuned to use existing map files, and I can see how, in Hans's original design (considering his recent rail against duplicate/ incompatible encodings), copying an .enc file could be seen as a bug.
Yeah, that is certainly true.
3) Why doesn't pdftex find the .enc file once copied to the enc/ directory? Why do I have to place it under $TEXMF/dvips/?
AFAIK, we're in a transition in the TeX directory structure, and so things don't join up properly.
OK. Perhaps I should try that minimal ConTeXt install I read about somewhere. nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}