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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: TeX -- Makefont
Date: 1 Feb 1994 02:07:45 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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Message-ID: <2ikdhh$6hj@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <2ijj1u$4oe@nwfocus.wa.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu
Keywords: metafont tex

In article <2ijj1u$4oe@nwfocus.wa.com>,
Daniel Jordan <daniel@halcyon.com> wrote:
>
>   My question has to do with the dvi utilities.  when i run xdvi or dvipr the 
>process of making fonts never succeeds because the fonts used are never found. 

Are you using the FreeBSD TeX package?

>   I haven't been able to find where the fonts should be: neither the TeXbook
>nor the MetafontBook describe file locations (atleast not that i saw).

That's becuase the fonts are installation dependant.

>ps: Where is the FAQ for TeX under FreeBSD?

There isn't one.


Nate


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