[comp.text.tex] METAFONT: ! Inconsistent eq

Mariusz@fbits.ttank.com (Mariusz Stanczak) (05/17/91)

    With

	    This is METAFONT, C Version 1.3 (preloaded ...)
	
	and

	    % EUFB10.MF                     June 1990
	    % This Metafont file is part of AMSFonts 2.0.
	    % Copyright (C) 1990, American Mathematical Society.

	I get

	    ! Inconsistent equation (off by 0.0027).
	    <to be read again> 
			       ;
	    l.18 h#=ptsize/programem;

	while processing

	    % EUFBCH.MF                     June 1990
	    % This Metafont file is part of AMSFonts 2.0.
	    % Copyright (C) 1990, American Mathematical Society.

	and the "pickynness" about the exact size of the inconsistency
	varies with the font generated.  Would any METAFONTition have
	a recommendation as to what could be amiss?  [I think there was
	something in the available-TeX-fonts-list article about the 
	need to build those fonts without the "plain" base preloaded,
	but attempts at running `inimf' dirrectly on the distributed
	files fails miserably as well.]


	Thanks
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texinfo1@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Rainer Schoepf) (05/27/91)

In article <116@fbits.ttank.com> Mariusz@fbits.ttank.com (Mariusz Stanczak) writes:
>
>    With
>
>	    This is METAFONT, C Version 1.3 (preloaded ...)
>	
>	and
>
>	    % EUFB10.MF                     June 1990
>	    % This Metafont file is part of AMSFonts 2.0.
>	    % Copyright (C) 1990, American Mathematical Society.
>
>	I get
>
>	    ! Inconsistent equation (off by 0.0027).
>	    <to be read again> 
>			       ;
>	    l.18 h#=ptsize/programem;
>
>	while processing
>
>	    % EUFBCH.MF                     June 1990
>	    % This Metafont file is part of AMSFonts 2.0.
>	    % Copyright (C) 1990, American Mathematical Society.

You must not run Metafont with the cmbase when generating the Euler fonts.
Use the plain base.
 Rainer Sch\"opf