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From: garzione@convex.com (Michael Garzione)
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Subject: Re: dvips font searching
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Date: 13 Jun 91 16:59:16 GMT
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In <garzione.676827945@convex.convex.com> garzione@convex.com (Michael Garzione) writes:

>The search continues.....
>I've gotten a number of reponses [thanks!] on how to use TeX math mode with
>postscript fonts, etc., etc.  I've decided to use postscript fonts
>for font families 0 and 1 and create cm fonts for families 2 and 3 in the 
>right sizes of cmsy and cmex with metafont.  So far so good.  What I need 
>to do now is tell dvips what directories to search for the fonts it can't 
>find.  I've got the directory in my TEXFONTS env. var., but that doesn't
>seem to work.  Do I need to do some sort of installation?  Thanks.

thanks to Gerald Edgar for pointing out the TEXPKS env. var.  (It _is_ in
the dvips man page .... (too bad I didn't find it before posting)