ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) (04/23/91)
My previous posting was misleading. I have a latex file which, when run on an AT clone using PCTeX works properly. When the same file is run on a Next, with the dvi file then copied on a diskette, and run using a PCTex driver for an HP Laserjet printer I get an aborted job because of a ``missing lcircle10 font.'' I have been able to make it work by issuing a font substitution command for ``circle10'', but it is annoying that the supposedly device independent files from the Next and PCTex are different, with one apparently invoking circle10 and the other invoking lcircle10.
jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) (04/27/91)
ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes: >...I get an aborted job because >of a ``missing lcircle10 font.'' I have been able to make it work by >issuing a font substitution command for ``circle10'', but it is annoying >that the supposedly device independent files from the Next and PCTex >are different, with one apparently invoking circle10 and the other >invoking lcircle10. This has nothing to do with TeX or the NeXT. It's entirely a problem with the dreaded "stinkin' PC". Count the characters in lcircle10. Nine. DOS can't handle that. Best solution: trash the PC's and get real computers. Next best solution: check the documentation for your PC version of TeX. It may have some sort of kludge work-around to accomodate DOS. Then you could treat "lcircle10" as "lcircle1". -- Jim Wright jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.