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- From: gowen@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu
- Subject: Re: Metafont font generation for TeX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.151654.1@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan21.132709.2285@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.200448.5380@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Jan24.001608.12487@news.uit.no>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:16:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.001608.12487@news.uit.no>, terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan21.200448.5380@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
- >>Jonathan P Moore - H600/91 (u1jpm@ohm.york.ac.uk) wrote:
- >>: Can anybody give me a fools guide on how to set up metafont using
- >>: Arexx so that when I use dvips or Showdvi it actually generates the
- >>: font required??
- >>and dviprint...
- >>
- >>: The docs are a bit skimpy, and my knowledge of Arexx relies upon the
- >>: manual that comes with Workbench 2 (ie I know nothing!)
- >>
- >>: Thanks a lot
- >>
- >>Could you post this, instead of sending it via e-mail? I'm about to
- >>voyage into the world of PasTeX again....
- >
- > Hmm....
- > Well, I shall try to give an explanation.
- >
- > If you want metafont to calculate new fonts at once, you should probably
- > put something like setenv CallMF TeX:REXX/CallMF/MakeTeXFonts in your
- > startup sequence (in case you have put the included arexx scripts in REXX:
- > setenv CallMF MakeTeXFonts is enough (Oh... don't I just love those multiple
- > assigns...:))
-
- I am not sure if the TeX utilities are case sensitive, but I just set up
- MetaFont on my A3000, and my documentation said to use "CALLMF" as the
- environment variable. If "CallMF" does not seem to work, try putting it in
- all caps - just a thought. By the way, I am no TeX guru. In fact, I am
- having problems myself (cf. my posting if you can help).
-
- >
- > Terje Marthinussen
- > terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Lon
-
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