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- From: hamlin@aps.org (Chris Hamlin 2369)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: REVTeX help; font problems
- Message-ID: <9301041521.AA16280@lancelot>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 05:21:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lancelot.9301041521.AA16280
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- Hi,
-
- I am responding to your a recent TeX question. Sorry to lag, but there were
- holidays and I was out sick, too.
-
-
- >
- > I received REVTEX from LISTSERV@SHSU. I LATEX-ed the file
- > MANINTRO.TEX without any problems. Although I have computer modern
- > fonts on my PC, I am unable to view or print the DVI file. It cannot
- > find the correct PIXEL files. I have DPI300, 329, 360, 432, 518, 622,
- > 746. It is looking for DPI270 which I do not have. It is also looking
- > for fonts in DPI300 which I do not have - amr10.* for instance.
- >
- > Where can I find the correct PIXEL files and the correct fonts.
- >
- > Seems you are not missing the fonts but you should upgrade your
- > version of LaTeX (A. D. 18??, just kidding). The Almost Modern Roman
- > fonts are pretty much out of use nowadays.
-
- Yes. REVTeX was not designed to support the Almost Modern fonts. This shouldn't
- be too surprising, but something will be added that states this specifically.
-
- >
- > Even with a new version of LaTeX you will sometimes encounter the
- > DPI270-problem. That's due to the fact that cmcsc at 8pt and 9pt is
- > not available everywhere and is replaced by a scaled cmcsc10
- > (0.9x300=270).
- >
- > If you have cmcsc9 and cmcsc8, all you have to do is edit lfonts.tex
- > before creating lplain.fmt. That's the way it looks at our place:
- >
- > ....(STUFF DELETED)...
-
- ....(STUFF DELETED)...
-
- Yes, the problem is that the \LaTeX command is being used in 9pt text.
- This isn't really a REVTeX error, since LaTeX itself is calling for the
- scaled fonts from lfonts.tex, so the font should be present. You can do
- the above (deleted for space), or create the scaled cmcsc10 fonts with
- METAFONT, or just avoid using the \sc font in sizes less than 10pt (which is
- what the \LaTeX command does).
-
- To avoid the whole issue in REVTeX, go into manintro.tex and manend.tex and
- search backwards in each for the command \LaTeX. That is, you will be at
- the last occurrence of the command \LaTeX in each file. Then just delete the
- backslash, changing the command "\LaTeX" to the word "LaTeX". This will allow
- you to run manintro and manend without incident, but of course is not a general
- solution to the missing fonts, as suggested by Wolfgang Ratzka.
-
-
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Chris Hamlin
-
-
-
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