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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Metafont errors while processing cmfonts
Message-ID: <4831@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 90 00:43:17 GMT
References: <32547@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <32547@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> kirkaas@oahu.UUCP (paul kirkaas) writes:
>I have been trying to generate gf fonts with Metafont and the standard
>cmfont sources.  On half the fonts, everything seems to work out OK; on
>the rest, I get peculiar error messages like the following:

>}! Strange path (turning number is zero).

>}! bad pos.

Bet you a quarter you were generating fonts at some low resolution.
CM chokes at low resolutions. Hitting R will give adequate results
for those resolutions (after all, you probably aren't printing final
copy at 118dpi).

-dh
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