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From: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi)
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> writes:

 [...]

 > Incidentally, since we're talking about TeX and it's friends I have a few
 > queries. First, what happened to the directory searching functions that
 > we had in 1.1.5? The kpathsea stuff doesn't seem to search subdirectories
 > like I thought it should.

The latest version of the kpathsearch library has bugs. TeX is of
course compiled with the library but the default path has no '//' in
it. You can use the directory searching functions if you set the
various environment variables (but because of the lib bugs, the path
'/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts//tfm' will not work. However
/usr/local/lib/texmf//fonts/tfm will work)
This is the main raison for which I have not ported dvipsk and xdvik,
and I used the original versions. The directory searching functions are
not implemented for dvips and xdvi. 

 > Also, the MakeTeXPK fails under certain circumstances because mf
 > creates fonts with the name of jobname.<number>gf where <number> depends
 > on the resolution and magnification of the font. In the MakeTeXPK script,
 > $GFNAME is set to $NAME.$DPI'gf and $DPI does not alwats map to the
 > <number> that mf generates, depending on the magnification used.

The $DPI variable is provided by xdvi or dvips. Do you mean that the
value is incorrectly computed by xdvi or dvips? I have seen rounding
errors (eg 745gf instead of 746gf), but only on VMS :-)

 > The result is that quite often you'll get "Metafont failed for some reason on"
 > errors because the script is looking for the wrong filename. Does anyone
 > know how to fix this or who to report it to?

 > -- 
 >   Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
 >   Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
 >   Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
 >   Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.

Jean-Marc.

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