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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Problems installing MuTeX
Keywords: metafont, dvips
Message-ID: <3904@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 16:00:52 GMT
References: <582@sunstone.UUCP>
Reply-To: barrett@jhunix.UUCP (Dan Barrett)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <582@sunstone.UUCP> alex@sunstone.UUCP (Alex Feldman) writes:
>I tried to install MuTeX, and when I tried to print the sample files,
>I got several screenfuls of error messages from dvips, all complaining
>about "illegal character".  The files printed, but the notes (though
>not the stems or flags) were missing.
>
>Since TeX seems to do its thing with no problem, and it is only dvips
>that complains, I suspect the fonts.

	Nope, it's dvips.  We have three different kinds of laser printers
in our dept, and only one driver is able to print MuTeX files correctly:
imagen1, for the Imagen printer.  dvips, dvi2ps, and dviln03 all cannot
print the note heads.

                                                        Dan

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