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From: neubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Thanks (was Re: Problem building font)
Message-ID: <40991@bsu-ucs.uucp>
Date: 14 Sep 90 17:17:11 GMT
References: <40682@bsu-ucs.uucp> <83591@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1471@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> <40940@bsu-ucs.uucp>
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for help.

In article <40940@bsu-ucs.uucp>, neubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer) writes:
> In article <1471@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>, chooft@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
>> 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.
 
> I have now also tried it with a mode specification on the
> command line to see if that made a difference.  It did not.  Metafont crashed
> again at the same place with the same message.  The command I used was:
> 
> 	CM WSUIPA10 MODE=LN

The real solution turned out to be that I had to put the mode specification
into the FILE.  I added the line:

	mode:=localfont;

to the top-level .mf files and it is now chugging away at generating the .gf
files.  I will soon try to make the .pk files and then will have an opportunity
to see if it all worked out, but it looks like it should.  Thanks all.

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