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From: wilcox@blob.cis.ohio-state.edu (Patricia P Wilcox)
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Subject: Re: Problem building font
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Date: 13 Sep 90 17:17:17 GMT
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In article <40682@bsu-ucs.uucp> neubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer) writes:

>I have been trying to build the IPA fonts from the ymir archives.  I have
>acquired all of the files and have tried to build the font files from the MF
>sources.  MF says it is running out of memory.  

You haven't given us the original command you used to run Metafont, so this
is just a guess, but did you specify a mode (something like "mode=imagen")
on the command line?  If not, MF is creating huge (proof-mode) characters,
and may very well be running out of memory.

--Pat Wilcox   (wilcox@cis.ohio-state.edu)