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From: smui@news.kn.PacBell.COM (Sherman Mui)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: TeX installation - Metafont
Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:21:12 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Knowledge Network
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Mark Newton (newton@cleese.apana.org.au) wrote:
: 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 think Metafont likes to erase log files, but the only way that I've
been able to get around the problem is by running MakeTeXPK (which xdvi
runs) manually.
MakeTeXPK cmr10 180 <printer's resolution> 1.094
^^ This sometimes needs to
be 1.095 to work, it's the magnification, I have no idea why this happens
but it seems to work for me.
the '180' is the resoultion that you want for the font...
: 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.
: :-(
Yeah, if anyone has a better fix please tell us! I hate making fonts
manually!
: 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.
I'm using the stuff I've compiled from CTAN in the US: ftp.shsu.edu, but
it should work the same I guess.
Sherman
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