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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.

2.  One thing I attempted (probably futile anyway) was to increase
 mf's string pool size using the documented /ms# command line option.
 I could not get that command line option accepted.  E.g., the input:
       mf286 /ms50000 &plain \mode=lqlores; input eusm7
gave the error:
       --- Invalid command line option: /ms50000


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