darrell@jupiter.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) (03/20/89)
I have made mf 1.3 using the latest and greatest Web2C from UC Irvine and Web sources from Stanford. Here's the problem: the TFM files I made cause TeX (2.96, made the same way) to choke saying the format is bad. Other TFM files work great. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Any solution to it other than buying a Pascal compiler? Thanks, DL
gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (03/21/89)
Look at one of your TFM files to see what is happening. A version of MetaFont
that I tried to use had a problem because a certain compiler would (by default)
write 32 bits every time you tried to send one character. When I saw what
was happening, I could look in the compiler docs and use the appropriate
compiler directive to defeat this. TFM files are binary, so you should
also avoid the trap of opening the file as a text file.
--
Gerald A. Edgar
Department of Mathematics TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
The Ohio State University gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gae