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From: chooft@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Problem building font
Message-ID: <1471@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
Date: 14 Sep 90 07:12:39 GMT
References: <40682@bsu-ucs.uucp> <83591@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: University of Utrecht, Dept. of Physics
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In <83591@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> wilcox@blob.cis.ohio-state.edu (Patricia P Wilcox) writes:

>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.

Is that true? In that case enlarging would help. But isn't it true that you
included the cm base twice? I'm not a wizard too (about the same, as close as
we have), but I saw that your startup specified the cm base, and you
re-included it. Can that do any harm? Wizards?
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