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- From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS t1-t5 TeX problems with xdvi !!
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:09:00 GMT
- Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany
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- Message-ID: <dvs.25.721994940@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <DONBON.92Nov14152719@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu>
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- In article <DONBON.92Nov14152719@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu> donbon@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu (Donald L Bonaddio) writes:
- >I just downloaded the TeX disks (t1-t5) from the SLS package at tsx-11.
- >Problem:
- > When I ran xdvi on a dvi file 'xdvi file.dvi' it invoked mf many times
- >to create some fonts, then it quit with a message like below.
- >- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmmi12 300 300 magstep\(0\)
- >/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmmi12.300pk already exists!
- >Can't find font cmmi12.
- Our local TeX guru found out that the environment variable XDVIFONTS as
- installed has a syntactically wrong value and should end with %f.%d%p .
- After this correction xdvi worked fine for him.
- Hope this helps,
- Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
- Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
-