henning@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mark D. Henning) (11/05/89)
I am having a problem making the cm fonts compile (render?) on my machine. I am using an Amiga 1000 with 1.5 meg ram. Metafonts seems to be running fine. I picked up the Metafonts book at the bookstore, and the IO test program works just dandy. (whoever chose the colors for the interlace screen is a genius; no flicker at all!) Anyway, the problem is this: metafonts hits the statement square_dots:=false; and jams with the message: illegal operation: numeric boolean. I tried using inimf to recompile the base file. This included the files: plain.mf local.mf (white_setup.mf) cm.mf (cmbase.mf). And still the cmr10.mf file killed at that point. (after several warnings mf "Emergency stop"'s on me.) The vax mainframe from which I pulled the .mf files compiles the cmr10 just fine so: 1. is the Amiga version pickier about type conversion? 2. am I missing a .mf file in my plain.base which would type declare the flags that the current? 3. is there a bug in the Amiga version to be fixed? Thanks for advice in advance. Sorry about the crosspost, but here is definitely a case where the question falls equally into two domains. -henning -- ------------------------------------------------------------ All opinions are my own, as are the spellings any deviation from the norm is just an effect of late nights and early mornings, with little sleep between.