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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Is Metafont losing its glyphs?  (Also need RMIT-STD.STY)
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:41:09 GMT
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In article <42847@bsu-ucs.uucp>, neubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp (Paul Neubauer) writes...
>I have built one of the fonts in the family.  The listing
>shows:
><	(PAUL$FILES:[MF.THAI.RMIT]CHAR87.MF;2 [135])
><	...

>As you can see, the characters start at 135.  

>The LaTeX'ing went fine until I tried to look at the
>results.  I got the following error:

><	$ xdvi thai-test
><	Character code 135 outside range, file thair20.360pk

>and next tried to convert the file to a printable file
>using dvi2ln3, with the following result:

>< $ dvi2ln3 thai-test

><       Ln03DVI V1.2-015

>< Font load to contain 50 glyphs.
>< Font thair20:   magnified 120%, loading PK file [360]thair20.pk,
>< %SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=01, virtual address=000BB9BE,
>< PC
>< =0002D734, PSL=03C00001
>< %TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows

> Still, we know that metafont did create a glyph 135, since it
>shows up in the listing.  What could be going on here?

It looks like you have two drivers that don't support fonts with
more than 128 characters (or to be more precise, fonts with
character codes greater than 127). One of the many reasons that I
go on tirades against PXL support (support of which encourages
this sort of limitation).

Your LN03 driver should be replaced anyway; there is a newer
driver by Brian Hamilton Kelly, dvitoln03 (available from
ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.drivers.ukln03] which
supports 256 character fonts. As for xdvi, a more recent version
_may_ have fixed the high-character support problem, but if not,
I'll tell Scott Allendorfer to put this in his pipeline.

-dh

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