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From: charnier@sequoia.lirmm.fr (Philippe Charnier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD]: xdvi and Gunther's TeX
Date: 26 Nov 1993 07:38:35 GMT
Organization: LIRM - Montpellier France
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In-reply-to: storm@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 24 Nov 1993 05:01:07 GMT

In article <2cupqj$t6g@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>   Mooo!
>
>	   I recently grabbed Gunther Schadow's port of TeX 3.14 to 386BSD
>	   and installed it on my machine, and everything appears to have
>	   gone all fine and dandy
>
>	   EXCEPT, xdvi can't find any fonts at all.
>
>	   Thus, the question is, how do I get xdvi to find the fonts?
>
>	   Current, I just get:
>
>   Can't find font cmsl10.
>   Can't find font cmbx10.
>   Can't find font cmr10.
>   xdvi: Not all pixel files were found
>
>	   These fonts ARE all in /usr/local/lib/TeX/fonts/tfm.

    Hi,

    xdvi wants the pk fonts, with good magnification. A good way to create
    them is to use  dvips which can use MakeTeXPK to generate fonts needed
    with right parameters. Edit the MakeTeXPK script before using it.

    Phil,
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