Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!hubcap!ncrcae!usceast!yarnall From: yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaMETAFONT Summary: Neither Set nor SetEnv seems to work Message-ID: <3408@usceast.UUCP> Date: 23 Aug 90 00:27:22 GMT References: <3397@usceast.UUCP> Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC) Lines: 29 In article caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes: +In article <3397@usceast.UUCP> yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall) writes: +> +>I have a question about Radical Eye's METAFONT. I setenv the environment +>variables mentioned in the documentation as follows: + +Is this SetEnv the Commodore SetEnv that uses the ENV: storage method? If +so, AmigaTeX was updated to use this form of environment variables, but (to +my knowledge) AmigaMETAFONT still uses the old Manx style environment +storage mechanism. Thus, you need Tom's Set command to set the MF +variables. Note that if you are using 2.0 (like I am), Set is in the +RESIDENT list so you must either specify a full path to it or do something +like `RESIDENT c:Set replace'. I have tried `set' (at least, as supplied in the ARP 1.3 distribution, which claims to manipulate the Manx/Rokiki environment variable form. No dice. I'm not convinced that I need plain to be loaded, since most of these fonts (in the AMSTeX 2.0 distribution) have a base of their own. But, I'm no METAFONT pro, and would like things to work as expected. +-=> CAW -kenny -- Ken Yarnall /// yarnall@cs.scarolina.EDU Math Department, USC \\\/// yarnall@ucseast.UUCP Columbia, S.C. 29208 \\\/ (803)777-6686 I want a T-shirt with a cow on it saying "Don't have a Bart, man."