Re: Metafont: X display under Red Hat Linux

[Thomas Esser]

 29) Metafont does not support the X display.
 It may be that your Metafont binary is compiled without support for
 the X windows system. If there exists a mf.X binary, that one
 has the missing X support you need.   

This is a bug in the docs. The name of the program is mfw. Sorry...

Thomas

problems with bookman.sty

[Mate Wierdl]

I am trying to compile

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bookman}

\begin{document}
Hello

\end{document}

In fact, compilation goes fine, but then when I try to preview, and I get

$ xdvi a
$ kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfivemp --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
--dpi 600 pbkl7t
mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfivemp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input
pbkl7t
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf  pbkl7t
! I can't find file `pbkl7t'.
* ...mp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input pbkl7t
  
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
* ...mp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input pbkl7t
  
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: pbkl7t.log: No such file or directory
mktexpk: `mf \mode:=ljfivemp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input pbkl7t'
failed to make pbkl7t.600pk.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
xdvi.bin: can't find font pbkl7t; using cmr10 instead at 600 dpi.

I have 

$ find /usr/local/teTeX/texmf -name "*pbkl7t*"
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/bookman/pbkl7t.tfm
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/bookman/pbkl7t.vf

What search paths should I look at?

I have the latest stable version of teTeX.

Thx

Mate

Re: problems with bookman.sty

[Thomas Esser]

 $ xdvi a
 $ kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfivemp --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
 --dpi 600 pbkl7t
 mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfivemp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input
 pbkl7t

The problem is that xdvi does not find pbkl7t.vf. Does some environment
variable force xdvi to use a wrong search path? Use KPATHSEA_DEBUG to
find out more about this problem if your environment is ok...

Thomas

Re: problems with bookman.sty

[Mate Wierdl]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:38:41PM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote:
  $ xdvi a
  $ kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfivemp --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
  --dpi 600 pbkl7t
  mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfivemp; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input
  pbkl7t
 
 The problem is that xdvi does not find pbkl7t.vf. Does some environment
 variable force xdvi to use a wrong search path? Use KPATHSEA_DEBUG to
 find out more about this problem if your environment is ok...

So I set  KPATHSEA_DEBUG="-1", and ran

xdvi a  xdvi-out 

I put xdvi-out on the web as

http://moni.msci.memphis.edu/~mw/xdvi-out.txt

I see the weird

kdebug:Search path for vf files (from texmf.cnf)
kdebug:  = 
.:/home/mw/texmf/fonts/vf//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/bin/texmf.local/fonts/vf//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/bin/texmf/fonts/vf//

This is puzzling since texconfig confall has 

kdebug:Search path for vf files (from texmf.cnf)
kdebug:  =
.:/home/mw/texmf/fonts/vf//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.local/fonts/vf//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/fonts/vf//

One more thing from `texconfig confall'

kdebug:Search path for cnf files (from compile-time paths.h)
kdebug:  =
/usr/local/teTeX/bin:/usr/local/teTeX:/usr/local:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/share/texmf.local/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf.local/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/texmf.local/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.local/web2c:/usr/local/texmf.local/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/texmf/web2c::/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/web2c

Do all these `bin' components look normal?

I get

$ grep bin /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf 
% a program that uses the 'other text files' or 'other binary files'

This is it.

Finally, these are my installation notes:

Unpack, compile:

mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/texmf
tar zxvfp  teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/teTeX/texmf
tar zxvf teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz
cd teTeX-1.0

Edit texk/kpathsea/texmf.in and 

texk/kpathsea/mktex.cnf:
: ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts}
: ${MODE=ljfivemp}

./configure --disable-multiplatform
sh -c 'make world world.log 21' 

Thx for any suggestions,

Mate