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Article #11457Re: Metafont errors while processing cmfonts
From: dhosek
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 00:43
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 00:43
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In article <32547@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> kirkaas@oahu.UUCP (paul kirkaas) writes:
>I have been trying to generate gf fonts with Metafont and the standard
>cmfont sources. On half the fonts, everything seems to work out OK; on
>the rest, I get peculiar error messages like the following:
>}! Strange path (turning number is zero).
>}! bad pos.
Bet you a quarter you were generating fonts at some low resolution.
CM chokes at low resolutions. Hitting R will give adequate results
for those resolutions (after all, you probably aren't printing final
copy at 118dpi).
-dh
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