FWIW I wound up reinstalling my system because I was beginning to have
problems with data corruption on the root partition.  I don't know what the
source of that is though.  The fonts now are no problem, so the two may be
related...  :(

Thanks for the input, Dekel.

Kenward

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:44:31PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:03:36PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > I have been with Sid for quite a while now, never with any real problems
> > until seemingly the last system update.  Now Lyx does not create a ps file
> > with the default font, or any of several others.  I get blank pages or ones
> > with a few certain characters showing up in the middle of the (otherwise
> > blank) page.
> > 
> > Others in the standard list still work (psLaTex, Times, Palatino, New
> > Century, etc.). I'm no pro with that sort of stuff so I don't know if there
> > is a quick way to check the source of the problem or not.  Can someone help
> > me on my way to figuring out what happened?
> > 
> > I'm using the Debian 1.1.16fix4 package.
> 
> Export the file to DVI format.
> Run dvips -o file.ps file.dvi.
> What (error) messages do you get ?
> Also, does XDVI show the file correctly ?
> 

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