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From: rmr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Randy M. Roberts)
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Subject: Re: AmigaTeX: Preview: texcreatefont100 not working for small mag's
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Date: 19 May 91 17:38:45 GMT
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In article <49075@ut-emx.uucp> rmr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Randy M. Roberts) writes:
|I am posting this to the net instead of calling Radical Eye for
|three reasons.
|
|1) I've tried to call 32-AMIGA only to get his answering machine (which
|is OK, I'll try again in an hour), but...

	I got him not too long after I posted this message!

|
|2) I'm impatient.

	This is not going to change.

|
|2') I'll try his BBS tonight.
|
|3) If anyone in netland is having the same problem, they may like to
|see the solution, if any.
|

	So here's the answer.       See below.

|
|I just got the latest version of AmigaTeX and am really impressed with
|it.  The only problem I am having is that I like to use the "full"
|size for the preview program.  The fonts for this size are not
|available on the distribution diskettes, so I would like to use the
|automatic font creation mechanism to create these fonts.  I have set
|the environment variable:
|
|	setenv texcreatefont100 "execute queuefont ..."
|
|This worked fine with the previous version of AmigaTex which would
|queue the font for any size.  Now with the AmigaTex3.1 previer it will
|only automatically create the font if the size is 69 or larger.
|
|I tried creating TeX:pk/40 and TeX:pk/33, thinking that it wouldn't
|create the font unless there was a directory for it.  I even created
|an empty "pk.dict" file in these directories.  Still no luck.
|

Answer from Tom Rokicki:

	This is a feature of Preview3.1 not a bug. 
	(I am not being facetious.)
	MetaFont has problems with small sized fonts.
		(I've personally been able to work around these
		problems with help from "The MetaFont Book",
		using the `turningcheck' variable (If I remember
		correctly))
	So the new version of Preview has been modified to not
	try to create these difficult to MF fonts.

	Mr. Rokicki first limited the auto-generation of fonts to
	83 and above, now it is 69 and above.
	He has informed me that this limit will soon become
	user-selectable!

Another example of the advantages of having a well supported software
product.  Tom, if you are reading this, thank you for your excellent
support of an excellent software product.

BTW,  I do not work for, or am in any way affiliated with Radical Eye
or Tom Rokicki, except as being a new and very well satisfied customer.

(I mean, Mr. Rokicki is even rumored to be an Aggie, and I'm a Longhorn! :-)

Hook'em Horns!

Regards,
Randy
-- 
Randy M. Roberts
rmr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu