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Re: Rounding bug in Xdvi patchlevel 15

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From: Paul Vojta
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:15
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In article <3941@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> devet@info.win.tue.nl writes:
 
| I'm trying to let Xdvi (patchlevel 15) work with the MakeTeXPK script from
| dvips. It works OK for fonts with sizes less or equal to 746dpi but not with
| larger font sizes:
|
| - MakeTeXPK lcmssb8 895 300 2+295/300
[...]
| Can't find font lcmssb8 at 896 dpi; using 746 dpi instead.

| Xdvi looks for 896dpi, but the arguments it gives to MakeTeXPK are for
| 895dpi. Is this a possible rounding error in Xdvi? Does anyone have a
| solution or bug fix?

This will (I hope) be fixed in patchlevel 16.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
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Date: 10 Aug 1992 19:15:03 GMT
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