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From: aubord@cui.unige.ch (AUBORD Alain)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Metafont problem
Keywords: Metafont,epson
Message-ID: <456@cui.unige.ch>
Date: 14 Apr 89 08:34:07 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Hi,
  I'm using the metafont program on my atari to generate some fonts for the
epson printer. All is right until the file punct.mf is treated, and I don't
understand the error message:

>> body_depth#
! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
<to be read again>

What is chardp?

I'm very novice with metafont program...
Any answer will be very appreciated.


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----------------Here follows my log file for the font cmr10--------------------


This is METAFONT, C Version 1.5 (preloaded base=plain 88.11.17)  12 APR 89 17:23
**\mode=epson; \mag=1.2; \input cmr10
(.\cmr10.mf (.\cmbase.mf) (.\roman.mf (.\romanu.mf [65] [66] [67] [68] [69]
[70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84]
[85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90]) (.\romanl.mf [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102]
[103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113] [114]
[115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122]) (.\greeku.mf [0] [1] [2]
[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]) (.\romand.mf [48] [49] [50] [51] [52]
[53] [54] [55] [56] [57]) (.\romanp.mf [36] [38] [63] [62]) (.\romspl.mf
[16] [17] [25] [26] [27] [28]) (.\romspu.mf [29] [30] [31]) (.\punct.mf
[33] [60] [35] [37] [39]
>> body_depth#
! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
                                                  w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
l.103 ...nospace: -u# fi,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                  ;
? 1.3
<recently read> ;
                 
beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
                                                  w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
l.103 ...nospace: -u# fi,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                  ;
? 
! Extra tokens will be flushed.
<to be read again> 
                   w
beginchar->...1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);w
                                                  :=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=v...
l.103 ...nospace: -u# fi,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                  ;
? 
[40]
>> body_depth#
! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
                                                  w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
l.114 ...nospace: -u# fi,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                  ;
? 
[41] [42] [43] [44] [46]
>> body_depth#
! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
                                                  w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
l.166 beginchar("/",9u#,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                 ;
? 
[47] [58] [59] [61] [64]
>> body_depth#
! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
                                                  w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
l.241 beginchar("[",wd#,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                 ;
? 
[91]
>> body_depth#
! Internal quantity `chardp' must receive a known value.
<to be read again> 
                   ;
beginchar->...R1);charht:=(EXPR2);chardp:=(EXPR3);
                                                  w:=hround(charwd*hppp);h:=...
l.260 beginchar("]",wd#,body_height#,body_depth#)
                                                 ;
? 
[93] [96]) (.\accent.mf [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [32] [94] [95]
[125] [126] [127]) (.\romlig.mf [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]) (.\comlig.mf [34]
[45] [92] [123] [124]) 
Here is how much of METAFONT's memory you used:
 351 strings out of 709
 2943 string characters out of 9410
 21443 words of memory out of 60001
 823 symbolic tokens out of 2100
 12i,79n,0r,29p,236b stack positions out of 30i,100n,300r,150p,500b
 
(You used 36w,16h,9d,5i,88l,10k,0e,7p metric file positions
  out of 256w,16h,16d,64i,300l,256k,256e,50p)

Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
Output written on cmr10.288gf (128 characters, 11472 bytes).