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- From: A8131DAL@vm.univie.ac.at (Peter Schmitt)
- Subject: Re: emTeX and long font names
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.125058.21271@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:43:54 GMT
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- > From: dbeeman@dogstar.Colorado.edu (Dave Beeman)
- > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:12:31 GMT
- > I am using emTeX (the 1990 3.0 version from ymir.claremont.edu) and tried
- > using MS-DOS dvips 5.49 on the file emtex.dvi. It needed the font lcircle10,
- > and METAFONT complained that it couldn't find the lcircle10.mf file.
- >
- > The problem, of course, is that "lcircle10" is more than 8 characters. My
- > "mfinputs" directory has the truncated name "lcircle1.mf". Has anyone
- > sucessfully dealt with this situation?
- >
- Perhaps emtex has implemented the 5+3 convention:
- and looks for lcirce10 (from LCIRC-l-E10).
- And you can always change the name of the font loaded by LaTeX:
- in LFONTS.tex, probably. This needs rebuilding the format file.
-
- Peter
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