Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!not-for-mail
From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: TeX installation - Metafont
Date: 11 Sep 1994 15:10:31 +0930
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au Public Access UNIX +61-8-3736006
Lines: 37
Message-ID: <34u58f$7dn@cleese.apana.org.au>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cleese.apana.org.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
I've just spent some time compiling the TeX distribution from
freebsd.cdrom.com, and am disheartened to notice that it doesn't
seem to install out-of-the-box.
More specifically, Metafont doesn't seem to be doing the right thing.
When I run xdvi on a document, the final few lines of output look like
this:
[... many screensful deleted... ]
Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
Output written on cmr10.180gf (128 characters, 8704 bytes).
Transcript written on cmr10.log.
Metafont failed for some reason on cmr10.300gf
Can't find font cmr10.
xdvi: Not all pixel files were found
Now, not only can I not seem to find cmr10.log anywhere, I also can't
seem to find cmr10.180gf (which is not entirely surprising, since metafont
failed "for some reason").
I seem to remember something about this in the newsgroups previously,
and I recall a trivial fix. But I can't even begin to think what it was.
:-(
I'm using the Makefile.epson from freebsd.cdrom.com at the moment; I've
previously built it with the standard Makefile with similar results.
Has anyone had any success with this?
- mark
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I tried an internal modem, newton@cleese.apana.org.au
but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton
----- Voice: +61-8-3735575 --------------- Data: +61-8-3736006 -----