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From: jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: dvi2ps hacking
Message-ID: <29544@bbn.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 88 13:09:55 GMT
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Dear comp.text:

  Last week I posted a plea for help in getting a new version of dvi2ps running.
My mail message contained the following lines:

|>>When I run [dvi2ps] it tries to open nonexistent font files that have
|>>rather odd-sounding names, for example, amsy10.1000. Frankly, I'm
|>>stymied. Can anyone tell me what's going on?

  Much to my chagrin, most of the people who read this thought my
problem was a misunderstanding about Computer Modern versus
Almost Modern fonts. 

  I am sorry that I gave that impression. The problem stems not
from AM versus CM; I have both. The problem is in "the suffix" not
the "preefix". amsy10.100 is odd-sounding to my machine because there
are no font files that end in ".1000". None. 

  Has there been a renaming or reorganization of font files while I was
asleep? If so, shall I rebuild the whole system so it is up to date. Or,
shall I just hack up the code for dvi2ps so it works? 

RSVP
John Zavgren