Building Riichi Book

[phoe]

Hey, I am attempting to build piemf-2.0.2 downloaded from the riichibook repository, but it fails for me on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS.

┌─[phoe][~/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2]
└─▪ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating macros/Makefile
config.status: creating omake/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating README
config.status: executing depfiles commands
┌─[phoe][~/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2]
└─▪ make
Making all in macros
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/macros'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/macros'
Making all in omake
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/omake'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/omake'
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/src'
for i in bjtenex canonex cx ljfzzz vtftzzhi ; \
do \
    makepk.sh $i ; \
done
/bin/bash: line 2: makepk.sh: command not found
/bin/bash: line 2: makepk.sh: command not found
/bin/bash: line 2: makepk.sh: command not found
/bin/bash: line 2: makepk.sh: command not found
/bin/bash: line 2: makepk.sh: command not found
Makefile:404: recipe for target 'default' failed
make[1]: *** [default] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/emiherd/.texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/src'
Makefile:344: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Looks like the issue is at

/bin/bash: line 2: makepk.sh: command not found

What is makepk.sh? Should it come from the LaTeX installation?

[phoe]

I have found the makepk.sh file from elsewhere, its contents are:

#!/bin/sh
progname='basename "$0"'
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
echo "usage: $progname mode_name"
echo "example: $progname CanonCX"
exit 1
fi
MODE=$1
MAGS='.5 .6 .7 .8 .9 1 magstep.5 magstep1 magstep2 magstep3 magstep4 magstep5'
for mag in $MAGS
do
mf "\mode=$MODE; mag=$mag; nonstopmode; input tsipa10"
done
MAGS='.5 .6 .7 .8 .9 magstep1 magstep3'
for mag in $MAGS
do
mf "\mode=$MODE; mag=$mag; nonstopmode;input cmr10"
done
for file in *gf
do
gftopk $file
done

I have built the files with it and added the folder into the ~/texmf directory; however, now building the book fails:

┌─[phoe][±][master U:2 ?:1 ✗][~/Projects/RiichiBooks]
└─▪ pdflatex RiichiBook1.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./RiichiBook1.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/02/01>
Babel <3.9q> and hyphenation patterns for 4 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/book.cls
Document Class: book 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo))
Writing index file RiichiBook1.idx
(/home/emiherd/texmf/tex/latex/piemf-2.0.2/macros/pie2e.sty

! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.68 \let\yisuo\��
                  ��\let\ersuo\����\let\sansuo\����\let\sisuo\�ͺ�

It seems that the pie2e.sty file has some broken characters. Are they Japanese in some weird encoding? Do I need to reencode these files in UTF-8 to make them work?

[phoe]

It seems that LaTeX on my machine refuses to properly understand lines like the following:

\let\ersuo\二索

It seems to split the UTF-8 character into pieces, which results in garbage:

l.68 \let\ersuo\��
                  �索

[dainachiba]

Hi, yes, the encoding for pie2e.sty included in the piemf package is EUC. Please try following the procedures explained here:

http://yasuda.homeip.net/insomnia/2011/05/latex-mahjong-fonts-package-pi.html

Although this page is in Japanese, I'm hoping you could parse out the commands (in pink background). Let me know how it goes.

[phoe]

I am slowwwwwwwwly getting this to build with XeTeX since it assumes UTF-8 on everything and therefore is capable of swallowing pie2e.sty, but this causes some new issues.

I will be figuring this out in my spare time.

[phoe]

On which environment has the Riichi Book been built so far? Do you have any VM or container images that has the environment set up for buildling the book?

[dainachiba]

I have typeset the book using pTeX. It seems that pLaTeX also works. However, I'm afraid XeTeX won't work.

(When I was beginning to write a first draft of the book, I tried XeTeX and pTeX and decided on the latter for some reason.)

[phoe]

I have built the book using pLaTeX. I am currently struggling to generate the pie fonts and have them recognized by pTeX from the project directory (without installing them system-wide).

[phoe]

7 should fix this.

If anyone has a Linux machine, please test it - clone the repository and attempt to build it by issuing the commands found in #7. It should build properly if texlive-full ptex2tex ptex-base ptex-jtex packages are installed on your machine; it's possible that a setup that doesn't include a full TeX installation will work, too.

[dainachiba]

Thank you very much for your work on this!

I don't have a Linux machine, but I happen to have access to a Mac machine on which I have never compiled any Japanese documents before. I downloaded the pie2e.sty, Upie.fd, pie.mf, and piemacro.mf and tried building the book. It works perfectly on my end.