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ram@lynx.imagen.com (m.v.s. ramanath) writes:

>I just installed the TeX/Metafont distribution from byron.u.washington.edu on an
>SS2 running SunOS 4.1.2, but when I tried to tex the GNU Emacs manual it
>complained about not finding cmr10 at magstephalf. Does anyone have a shell
>script that builds all magnifications of the "standard" TeX and LaTeX fonts
>including the pk300w for screen preview ?

Was it tex that objected,
or the TeX printer driver (eg dvips) what you were using?
tex would not care about the magnification --
it would just look for cmr10.tfm .
If it didn't find this, it would be because
TEXINPUTS was wrongly defined is site.h .

If the problem arose with the output driver,
I would suggest that you consider using dvips 
(assuming you have a PostScript printer)
as this will do the Metafont for you,
using the shell script MakeTeXPK .
This shell script is itself a good MF teaching aid, IMHO.

Incidentally, I'm not sure that washington has the latest versions
(eg TeX3.141).
When I looked a few months ago,
I found later versions at ftp.cs.umb.edu
(pub/tex/{web,web2c}.tar.Z).


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