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Article #1095Re: emtex's metafont
From: David Kastrup
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 12:32
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 12:32
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Walter D. Neumann <neumann@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> writes: >I have been having a couple of problems with emtex's metafont. >Can anyone help? >1. I get capacity exceeded errors on most of the AMS fonts, using > both mf and bmf. I have had errors before, I think, because emtex's > mf loads cmbase rather than plainbase by default, but that is not the > issue here since I am loading the correct base explicitly (I tried > both). >mf286 &plain \mode=lqlores; input eusm7 >This is METAFONT, Version 2.0 [3a] (no base preloaded) >**&plain \mode=lqlores; input eusm7 >(d:\emtex\mfinput\eusm7.mf (d:\emtex\mfinput\eusmch.mf >(d:\emtex\mfinput\eubase.mf) [48] [64] >! METAFONT capacity exceeded, sorry [buffer size=500]. >l.280 > (1099,1031)-- % 1^^?^^?^^?^^?^^?^^?^^?... >Font metrics written on eusm7.tfm. >Output written on eusm7.180gf (2 characters, 164 bytes). >Transcript written on eusm7.log. This is a line input problem. Probably your input file is padded with delete characters or such. Try loading the thing into an editor, looking at the end, deleting spurious characters and saving again. Maybe there is also a problem with EOIL characters being other than CR/LF.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE!tabaqui!dak From: dak@tabaqui.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: emtex's metafont Message-ID: <dak.713363576@tabaqui> Date: 9 Aug 92 12:32:56 GMT References: <9208051612.AA03247@brubeck.mps.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Newsfiles Owner) Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik / RWTH Aachen Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: tabaqui