From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Subject: Re: SLS t1-t5 TeX problems with xdvi !! Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:09:00 GMT
In article <DONBON.92Nov14152719@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu> donbon@unixd1.neuronet.pitt.edu (Donald L Bonaddio) writes:
>I just downloaded the TeX disks (t1-t5) from the SLS package at tsx-11.
>Problem:
> When I ran xdvi on a dvi file 'xdvi file.dvi' it invoked mf many times
>to create some fonts, then it quit with a message like below.
>- /usr/TeX/lib/tex/MakeTeXPK cmmi12 300 300 magstep\(0\)
>/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/cmmi12.300pk already exists!
>Can't find font cmmi12.
Our local TeX guru found out that the environment variable XDVIFONTS as
installed has a syntactically wrong value and should end with %f.%d%p .
After this correction xdvi worked fine for him.
Hope this helps,
Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.