theron@math.berkeley.edu (Theron Stanford) (08/07/90)
I'm on a SUN trying to work my way through The METAFONTBook with little success. I do everything it wants me to, and the computer apparently obeys, but when I try to preview testfont.dvi with dvitool, it can't find my fonts. And when I try to get a printout, I get "cannot access testfont", while testfont.dvi rots away in my directory. It has been suggested that I explicitly mention the pathnames [i.e., use /math3/grad/theron/io instead of just io], but I can't seem to trick dvitool into looking in my directory without looking through /usr/custom/mf84/fonts/pk first [which is where the pk files reside at Berkeley]. It has also been suggested that I try to convert my dvi file to a PostScript file, but that's FATAL, because I don't have io.1000, however that's created. Please help this TeX tyro. --theron@math.berkeley.edu
ger@prisma.cv.ruu.nl (Ger Timmens) (02/24/91)
Where can I get it ? And how do I install it ? (I ftp-ed a pub/tex/mf directory and I do not know how to use a .web file) Thanks in advance, Ger, P.S. please respond by the following e-mail address NOTE: Ger.Timmens@fel.tno.nl
krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au (06/18/91)
I have MF for my computer, and I am interested in knowing hwo to generate fonts of a certain size. I have little knowledge of MF, and YES, I HAVE looked through the Knuth MF book, and found it totally confusing (just like his TeX book!). All I want to do is simply create a font, say 518dpi. I have all necessary files for MF. Can somebody please elaborate on this for me? Alex Krooglik krooglik@ecr.mu.OZ.AU Chem Eng Stude, and proud of it "Only wankers insist on wasting time writing a totally meaningless message at the bottom of their .sig*"
krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au (06/26/91)
I am having a problem with MF for the Amiga. I cannot seem to get it to run! I have 1Mb RAM and I have memtop and memmax set to 100000 and it says, when run, that "Insufficient Memory (5)!" Can someone please elaborate? _______________________________________________________________________________ Alex Krooglik krooglik@ecr.mu.OZ.AU Chemical Engineering 1991 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
jcg852@jcsneuro.uucp (John C Gallant) (06/27/91)
krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au () writes: > I am having a problem with MF for the Amiga. I cannot seem to get it >to run! I have 1Mb RAM and I have memtop and memmax set to 100000 and >it says, when run, that "Insufficient Memory (5)!" > Can someone please elaborate? I haven't run MF on the Amiga but I have run TeX (PasTeX that is). You probably need to REDUCE memtop and memmax. If I remember rightly, memtop/memmax specify number of long words ie 100000 means it is trying to grab a 400k block of memory. -- Please note "ReplyTo:" field in header; "From:" field is incorrect. John Gallant
raichle@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Bernd Raichle) (06/27/91)
jcg852@jcsneuro.uucp (John C Gallant) writes: > krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au () writes: > > I am having a problem with MF for the Amiga. I cannot seem to get it > >to run! I have 1Mb RAM and I have memtop and memmax set to 100000 and > >it says, when run, that "Insufficient Memory (5)!" > I haven't run MF on the Amiga but I have run TeX (PasTeX that is). You > probably need to REDUCE memtop and memmax. If I remember rightly, ^^^^^^^^ you NEED to! > memtop/memmax specify number of long words ie 100000 means it is trying > to grab a 400k block of memory. If you don't use a BigMF, you can't set memmax/memtop to 100000 ...and for BigMF a`memoryword' is _two_ long words, i.e., it tries to grap 800k out of 1MB only for the main mem! Don't use a BigMF unless you have at least 1,5-2MB RAM. -bernd