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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!bush
- From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: Any TeX (compilation) Gurus out there?
- Keywords: TeX, make
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.153816.1910@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 15:38:16 GMT
- References: <BxKJK0.8Mr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
- Lines: 35
- Originator: bush@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk
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- In article <BxKJK0.8Mr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> parson@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Eric Parson) writes:
- #get MF to process the plain.mf file, but in the 'Makefile' command file,
- #it displays the line:
- # inimf plain; input modes; dump
- #Well, it gets through the inimf, but fails the input. Now there aren't that
- #many copies of files with the name 'modes' in them (two to be precise, and
- #one is amsmodes.mf), thus I thought that moving a copy of modes.mf from the
- #input directory would solve my problem. It didn't. Now I don't know what
- #else to do.
-
- In what manner didn't it?
-
- From README.WEB2C:
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- 10. `make bases' to make the base files for Metafont that you want.
- Besides the variable `bases' in ./Makefile, you may also want to
- change the variable `localmodes'. It is also a good idea to try to
- ------------------------------------
-
- and from ./Makefile:
-
- ------------------------------------
- # The name of the file that defines your local devices, for use with
- # Metafont. (Only relevant during `make bases'.) I urge you to get the
- # file `modes.mf', which defines all known modes, plus useful
- # definitions for all fonts. It's available from ftp.cs.umb.edu
- # [192.12.26.23] as pub/tex/modes.mf, among other places.
- localmodes=modes
- ------------------------------------
-
- You should place a copy of this into the area you have defined in lib/site.h
- as the value of MFINPUTS.
-
- Mark
-