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From: wsflinn@violet.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Metafont problem
Message-ID: <13354@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 89 00:35:27 GMT
References: <456@cui.unige.ch> <8YG0mQy00Vo9856lop@andrew.cmu.edu>
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In article <8YG0mQy00Vo9856lop@andrew.cmu.edu> mc3i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin Costabel) writes:
> ...
>My advice therefore: replace "body_depth#" everywhere by "paren_depth#" and see
>what happens.
>
>Can anyone else explain what is going on?

I can't explain what is going on, but I can confirm that this suggestion 
is the correct one.  I encountered the problem in several files other
than punct.mf, although I don't remember which ones.  The same fix worked.
Me:      Scott Flinn                   /  "If it doesn't fit, force it.
Domain:  wsflinn@violet.waterloo.edu  /  If it breaks, then it didn't
UUCP:    watmath!violet!wsflinn      /  fit anyway."