frautschi@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (11/30/90)
Kind netters, I am having trouble with TeXtures 1.2 (LaTeX). I am using an SE/30 5MB HD40 at home, a IIci 4MB HD 80 (+ VAXstation 3200's) in the Lab. The symptom is a ! Font \\\psc\@xviipt=cmcsc10 scaled 1728 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found! message. TeX hangs up when it reaches the \tableofcontents macro. I imagine that cmcsc10 is used in the table of contents. The TeX Metrics folder is there. LaTeX seems to have no trouble finding it at other times. This problem seems to occur only for files which have been previously typeset. In fact, as these files grow larger, these errors occur more frequently. I have "solved" the problem, rather inelegantly, by reducing the .TEX source to the bare LaTeX text and typesetting from scratch. Conversion to text by MacWrite II or MS Word is unrelaible (do these preserve both the data and resource forks?), but text Kermit up/down loading to the local VAX, coupled with a deletion of the mac files seems to work. If I cannot attack this problem at a fundemental level, at least I would like a less awkward means, one that I can do standalone on the Mac. As my thesis gets longer, this restart procedure becomes increasingly painful. I imagine that the "typeset" portion of a TeX file lives in either the data or resource fork, and the text source lives in the other. Is there a utility that kills off just one fork? I have ResEdit 1.3d1, but I do not know how to use it. I would describe myself as a beginner with the Macintosh, thus it would probably be best if you would reccommend applications rather than something requiring knowledge of the internals. If getting in is the only way, please make mention of this, but spare yourself the trouble of a long detailed explaination, since it may be more than I can chew. If I am interested, I will write back and request more information. If you have suggestions for either method of attack (or a third!) please send me some email. I would greatly appreciate it. Mark Frautschi