Re: emTeX and long font names

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From: Peter Schmitt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:43

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> From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:12:31 GMT
> I am using emTeX (the 1990 3.0 version from ymir.claremont.edu) and tried
> using MS-DOS dvips 5.49 on the file emtex.dvi.  It needed the font lcircle10,
> and METAFONT complained that it couldn't find the lcircle10.mf file.
>
> The problem, of course, is that "lcircle10" is more than 8 characters.  My
> "mfinputs" directory has the truncated name "lcircle1.mf".  Has anyone
> sucessfully dealt with this situation?
>
Perhaps emtex has implemented the 5+3 convention:
and looks for lcirce10 (from LCIRC-l-E10).
And you can always change the name of the font loaded by LaTeX:
in LFONTS.tex, probably. This needs rebuilding the format file.

Peter

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