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I'm trying to get Xtex (2.18.5) to work on a HP9000/720 machine.  For
some reason, the fonts just don't seem to be made properly...it does
display the encapsulated postscript figures, but the text looks quite
horrible because of the fonts.

I have the full TeX3.14 distribution installed, and I am using
HPUX 8.07 and HPs C compiler (not the bundled one).

In the config file, I have defined:
     XTEX_FONT_PATH=/admin/tex/lib/xtex
     FontDesc=/admin/tex/lib/fontdesc

When the directory /admin/tex/lib/xtex exists, Xtex exits with the
following error.

     X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
       Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
       Value in failed request:  0x5
       Serial number of failed request:  136
       Current serial number in output stream:  187

When the directory does not exist, Xtex goes on and tells me all the 
fonts it's missing, and in the dialogue box gives the messages (1 of many)
     TeXtoXfont cmr10 85 85 1000 sun  /admin/tex/lib/xtex 2>&1
and
     [ exec ] TeXtoXfont cmr10 85 85 1000 sun /admin/tex/lib/xtex 2>&1
     ./TeXtoXfont: xdpyinfo: not found
     1st mftobdf -dpi 85 cmr10
     mf \mode:=sun; mag:=1000/1000; scrollmode; input cmr10 </dev/null
     This is METAFONT, C Version 2.7
     [ LOTSA METAFONT OUTPUT deleted]
     Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
     Output written on cmr10.85gf (128 characters, 5156 bytes).
     Transcript written on cmr10.log.
     mftobdf -dpi 85 cmr10
     Mftobdf failed for some reason on cmr10.85.bdf
     Missing cmr10.85 ( -mag 1000 -scaled 1000 cmr10 )

Now, I can't find the tfm and 85gf files ANYWHERE!  Also, the fact that 
mftobdf fails sorta troubles me.  I tried running mftobdf manually, and
even there, no output seems to be written.

Is this (yet) another X fontism that I am not aware of?
Has anyone had similar problems (and hopefully solutions)?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Chris Lee
University of Illinois Urbana
lee@ceg.uiuc.edu
(217)244-2903