Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utdoe!david From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) Subject: Re: metafont and .tfm problems Message-ID: <1990Nov8.180706.11854@doe.utoronto.ca> Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto References: <1990Nov2.173435.15558@doe.utoronto.ca> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 18:07:06 GMT In article ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, STO XS 141) writes: >Are you sure, that you mean 'initex'? 'initex' usually don't need any >fonts, since it is only used to create a 'dumped' format from >'plain.tex' or 'lplain.tex' for faster loading by 'virtex'. Only >'virtex' should complain, if a .tfm is not available, when you are >compiling a document. Yes. I am trying to create a new plain.fmt, and plain.tex tries to preload the font information for its standard fonts. I am actually using iplain.tex, from the Icelandic font distribution at babel. I created all of the im (=cm) fonts on my ST, but initex rejects the .tfm files!! >Inimf is not quite so important as is initex. Since my first metafont >setup I've never run inimf again. But part of the package should then >be a file like 'plain.base', which should be a 'dumped' version of the >metafont basics and should contain setup parameters for various printers. You are right, you need to run inimf only once. However, the standard pk fonts do not come out well on the SLM804 atari laser, and I want to darken them up a bit. I need to define a new mode, and it's a pain loading the file in by hand every time. Thanks for the help. Does anyone else here know about an inimf for the ST? Or does anyone else have further information? Thanks. David Megginson -- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / David Megginson david@doe.utoronto.ca / / Centre for Medieval Studies meggin@vm.epas.utoronto.ca / ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////