[comp.text.tex] How to get MetaFont to generate cmman.tfm and cmman fonts?

kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) (02/28/90)

I have managed to get MetaFont up on Xenix 2.3.2 and it passes the
trap test and generates good font files for all the TeX fonts.

I tried it on the cmman.mf which was part of the utilityfonts and this
is an excerpt from the cmman.log:

    This is METAFONT, C Version 1.7 (preloaded base=cmbase 90.2.27)  27 FEB 1990 22:13
    **&cmbase \mode=localfont; \mag=magstep0; \batchmode; \input cmman 
    (/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/cmman.mf (/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/cmtt10.mf) [48] (/
    usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/cmssq8.mf) [12] [13] (/usr/local/lib/mf/inputs/cmr10.mf
    )
    Parentheses
    >> body_depth#
    ! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
    <to be read again> 
		       ;
    beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
						      w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
    <for(0)> ...ncr.code,7u#,body_height#,body_depth#)
						      ;italcorr.body_height#*sla...
    l.100 endfor

    I can't set an internal quantity to anything but a known
    numeric value, so I'll have to ignore this assignment.

    [... repeats many more times ...]

    Font metrics written on cmman.tfm.
    Output written on cmman.300gf (22 characters, 6580 bytes).

What am I doing wrong? Anyone have an idea?

			---Kayvan
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