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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.sys.hp
Subject: MF2.7 problems (bug?)
Message-ID: <1971@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 09:59:43 GMT
Organization: DoCS, Uppsala University, Sweden
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I am having trouble building the plain base file in mf2.7.   Here's what
I get:

=============================================================================

This is METAFONT, C Version 2.7 (INIMF)
**plain
(/usr/local/lib/mf/macros/plain.mf
Preloading the plain base, version 2.0: preliminaries,
 basic constants and mathematical macros,
 macros for converting from device-independent units to pixels,
>> extra_setup
>> "grayfont black"
! Not implemented: (unknown numeric)&(string).
<to be read again> 
                   ;
l.301 ...ra_setup:=extra_setup & "grayfont black";
                                                   % with solid black pixels

=============================================================================

What's happening here?  BTW, I have mf compiled with the HP-UX 7.40
"cc -O -W g,-All" on an HP9000/400 running HP-UX 7.03, if that matters.
TeX3.1 and friends compiled the same way seem to work OK.  The mf problems
occur even if I use "cc" without any optimization.  The C code was built
using web2c5.8a.

Bo

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