[comp.text.tex] Question concerning DVIPS, virtual fonts

jordan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth D Jordan) (01/04/91)

I have just installed DVIPS and am rather confused about its automatic font
generation.  When it fails to find a required font it invokes METAFONT, as
expected, and appears to generate the required font.  Eventually it always
produces a message of "something went wrong with font <font>", gives the
size of the file it supposedly wrote, and finishes.  When I run it again
on the same input, however, it invokes again METAFONT for the same font.
So my real question is: where are the fonts so generated to be stored?
I looked in my normal TeX pk and gf directories as well as DVIPS's "local"
directories, but there doesn't seem to be anything new.  Also, do the
fonts produced automatically by DVIPS have anything to do with TeX 3.0's
"virtual fonts"?

Nick Nystrom
Chemistry Department
University of Pittsburgh
nystrom@a.psc.edu