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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!basso!dgold
- From: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Basic PasTeX help needed.
- References: <1993Jan24.150358.1@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu>
- Message-ID: <dgold.0xgh@basso.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:19:28 PST
- Organization: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Lines: 41
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- Quoted from <1993Jan24.150358.1@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu>
- by gowen@sevmsa.cs.msstate.edu:
-
- > I just get some strange warning that says "Checksum
- > mismatch in font manfnt.pk360" when I use it.
-
- Mine's called manfnt.360pk - if that wasn't a typo, renaming it might help.
- I know that some other systems use slightly different naming conventions,
- and when I got a bunch of Unix fonts that didn't work renaming them fixed
- it.
-
- > I was converting the MetaFont
- > documentation's .DVI file to PostScript when I noticed this problem. Any
- > ideas? I deleted this font, and had MetaFont rebuild it, but I then get the
- > same message.
-
- Checksum errors make me wonder if your .tfm file is screwy.
- Try renaming manfont.tfm to manfont.bak, and see if Metafont can
- make a good one for you.
-
- > This is a PD-Version of (big) Pas-TeX (made Aug 29 1991 [br]/[hes])
- > This is TeX, C Version 3.14
- > This is a format file for a `normal' TeX.
- > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
-
- Looks like you used the bigvirtex (whatever it's called...) executable
- instead of the normal one. You shouldn't need to bother with bigTeX
- except in dire situations.
-
- > I may not be
- > defining all the environment's variables or something. Any ideas?
-
- Could be. Get ahold of SnoopDos and you will see some interested
- undocument things about what PasTeX is doing.
-
- Good luck - it's worth the effort!
- Dale
-
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