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From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: emTeX .DVI driver quirks?!
Keywords: EmTeX, fonts, case sensitive.
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Date: 8 Oct 90 10:19:19 GMT
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In article <90280.051217DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu> DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber) writes:
>Hi all! I've got a couple questions regarding the DVI drivers supplied with
>emTeX. First, has anyone else noticed that the drivers conduct a case sensitive
>search for fonts? (ie, \font\thefont\CMBX10 is reported to be not found)
Yes, I did!
>Should this be considered a bug given that MS-DOS does not have a case
>sensitive file system? I have not yet experimented with font names greater
>than 8 characters, but it might be interesting.

Since DOS doesn't care about the case of a filename, I would not consider
it a bug. It's going to be more of a problem when you yourselves uses a
fontpath in Uppercase, and then take it to a Unix box. Here it'll stall,
but then Unix is case-sensitive.
EmTeX does have a 'problem' with font names longer then 8 chars:
like circlew10. Here the last '0' get left out, but it does end up in the
packed li. I've not yet come across any problems with this, so my guess
is the Ebenhart Mattes is aware op possible problems in this field.

Happy {Em}TeXing,
	Willem Jan Withagen.
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