[comp.sys.amiga.applications] Help ! Using <initex> to compile <lplain.fmt>

young@spica.ucsc.edu (03/27/91)

My LaTeX format file (lplain.fmt) is corrupt. I am trying to recompile it
using "initex" (AmigaTeX). But, "initex" seems to have problem with the file
"lfonts.tex". Some of the variable assignments seemed not to be carried out,
and I got the message 

     "....not loaded: Not enough room left".

The session of compilation looked like the following :
(Keys in [...] are what I keyed in in reaction to the pause (with "?")
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(C) Copyright 1987 by Radical Eye Software---All Rights Reserved
This is CTeX, Amiga Version 2.9c (INITEX)
(tex:inputs/lplain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers,
parameters, macros, math definitions, hyphenation (tex:inputs/hyphen.tex)
(tex:inputs/lfonts.tex
! Font \ninbf=cmbx9 not loaded: Not enough room left.
<to be read again> 
                   \font 
l.282  \font
            \nintt  = cmtt9              % typewriter
? ! Font \tenrm=cmr10 not loaded: Not enough room left.            [RETURN]
<to be read again> 
                   \font 
l.296  \font
            \tenmi  = cmmi10   % math italic
? ! Font \tenmi=cmmi10 not loaded: Not enough room left.           [RETURN]
<to be read again> 
                   \skewchar 
l.297     \skewchar
                   \tenmi ='177  %  for placement of accents
? ! Font \tensy=cmsy10 not loaded: Not enough room left.           [RETURN]
<to be read again> 
                   \skewchar 
l.300     \skewchar
                   \tensy ='60 %   for placement of math accents
?                                                                  [^F]
No pages of output.
Transcript written on lplain.log.
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My Amiga has 0.5 Mega Chip and 2.5 Mega Fast memeory. I'd appreciate any
helpful hint about where the problem might lie. 

Many thanks in advance !


S. Young
young@spica.ucsc.edu