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From: theron@math.berkeley.edu (Theron Stanford)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: METAFONT
Summary: Just trying to follow the book
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Date: 6 Aug 90 21:08:14 GMT
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Reply-To: theron@math.berkeley.edu (Theron Stanford)
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I'm on a SUN trying to work my way through The METAFONTBook with 
little success.  I do everything it wants me to, and the computer 
apparently obeys, but when I try to preview testfont.dvi with 
dvitool, it can't find my fonts.  And when I try to get a printout, 
I get "cannot access testfont", while testfont.dvi rots away in my 
directory.

It has been suggested that I explicitly mention the pathnames [i.e., 
use /math3/grad/theron/io instead of just io], but I can't seem to
trick dvitool into looking in my directory without looking through
/usr/custom/mf84/fonts/pk first [which is where the pk files reside
at Berkeley].  It has also been suggested that I try to convert my
dvi file to a PostScript file, but that's FATAL, because I don't have 
io.1000, however that's created.

Please help this TeX tyro.


--theron@math.berkeley.edu