Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: metafont and .tfm problems
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.180706.11854@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <1990Nov2.173435.15558@doe.utoronto.ca> <RIDDERBUSCH.PAD.90Nov6084503@ugus21.nixdorf.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 18:07:06 GMT

In article <RIDDERBUSCH.PAD.90Nov6084503@ugus21.nixdorf.de> ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, STO XS 141) writes:

>Are you sure, that you mean 'initex'? 'initex' usually don't need any
>fonts, since it is only used to create a 'dumped' format from
>'plain.tex' or 'lplain.tex' for faster loading by 'virtex'. Only
>'virtex' should complain, if a .tfm is not available, when you are
>compiling a document. 

Yes. I am trying to create a new plain.fmt, and plain.tex tries to
preload the font information for its standard fonts. I am actually
using iplain.tex, from the Icelandic font distribution at babel. I
created all of the im (=cm) fonts on my ST, but initex rejects the .tfm
files!!

>Inimf is not quite so important as is initex. Since my first metafont
>setup I've never run inimf again. But part of the package should then
>be a file like 'plain.base', which should be a 'dumped' version of the
>metafont basics and should contain setup parameters for various printers.

You are right, you need to run inimf only once. However, the standard
pk fonts do not come out well on the SLM804 atari laser, and I want
to darken them up a bit. I need to define a new mode, and it's a pain
loading the file in by hand every time.

Thanks for the help. Does anyone else here know about an inimf for
the ST? Or does anyone else have further information? Thanks.

David Megginson

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