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From: mdeck@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Mary Deck)
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Subject: Metafont and certain .mf files
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Date: 17 Aug 90 23:20:58 GMT
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Ok.  So here I am, plugging along, building all sorts of fonts.  I get
to the AMS symbol fonts.  The first several go without a hitch.  Then
I get to MSBM5 and MSBM6.  They won't work.  They bomb on "The Letter
M" (which is defined in XBCAPS.MF).  I would have though that I had
made a mistake somewere, except that the very-similarly-defined MSBM7,
MSBM8, MSBM9, and MSBM10 fonts went through Metafont without incident.
This bothers me, though, because I haven't heard anyone else complain
of this problem.  ?!?!

Following is a chunk of the .lis file....

This is METAFONT, Vax/VMS Version 1.7 (preloaded base=cmxerox 90.8.2)  17 AUG 1990 18:59
**&cmxerox \blacker:=0.5; fillin:=0.0; input msbm5
(TEX_ROOT:[MF.AMS.SYMBOLS]MSBM5.MF;1 (TEX_ROOT:[MF.AMS.SYMBOLS]AMSYB.MF;1
(TEX_ROOT:[MF.AMS.SYMBOLS]BSYMBOLS.MF;1
...
(TEX_ROOT:[MF.AMS.SYMBOLS]XBBOLD.MF;1 (TEX_ROOT:[MF.AMS.SYMBOLS]XBBASE.MF;1)
(TEX_ROOT:[MF.AMS.SYMBOLS]XBCAPS.MF;1
...
The letter M
! The paths don't intersect.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
intersectionpoint->...s don't intersect");
                                          origin.else:0.5[point.x_.of...
<to be read again> 
                   ;
l.379 ...rsectionpoint ((x3l,0)--(x3l,h));
                                          
? 

Any suggestions?

Also, the SliTeX ILASY8 font is giving me problems.  It runs through
Metafont OK, but when I try to run gftopk on the resulting file, I get
an error like "Empty GF file."  I realize that this is an invisible
font, but how can I convince gftopk to give me an invisible pk file
(like with the other invisible fonts)?  

By the by, I got the mf sources from ymir.claremont.edu.  The mode I'm
using is this:

	mode_def xrx =
	proofing:=0;
	trtaceingtitles:=0;
	fontmaking:=1;
	pixels_per_inch:=300;
	o_correction:=.5;
	blacker:=0.5;
	fillin:=0.0;
	enddef;
	mode=xrx;

Loads of tanks....

					.....Mary
-- 
Mary M. Deck,  Student Assistant, Software Development
University Computing Services, State University of New York at Buffalo
mdeck@cs.buffalo.edu [Unix]
acsgmmd@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu [VAX/VMS]