Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre.dsl.pitt.edu!pitt!unix.cis.pitt.edu!jbw From: jbw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jingbai Wang) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: TeX,InitTeX,TFM files Keywords: TeX,InitTeX,TFM files Message-ID: <19816@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 14:11:24 GMT References: <251D440F.1E2C@marob.masa.com> <2538@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <8001@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> Reply-To: jbw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jingbai Wang) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 45 In article <8001@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> cczdao@clan.UUCP (David Osborne) writes: >In article <2538@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> oplinger@crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) writes: >> [...] >>this is exactly my problem (on an Atari): >>\bigtenrm=cmr10 scaled\magstep2 >> >>and the error: >> >>Font \bigtenrm=cmr10 scaled 1440 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file >>not found. >> [...] >>What I would like is: the missing TFM (.tfm?) files I need. >> [...] >>I seem to guess I requires using initex and plain.tex, >>but I'm lost as what to do. > >Brian says he only has the TeXbook to work from. if he were to have >the METAFONTbook (also by Don Knuth, also publ. Addison-Wesley), all >would be revealed. >... Wait a moment. How old are you guys? If you are 30 years old now, then you will be 45-50 years by the time you understand all TeX and MetaFont stuffs by reading Don Knuth 4 books, i.e., TeXbook, MetaFontbook, TeX programmer's book and MeTaFont Programmer's book. One thing is these books are all thick in Elian language and logicals, the other thing is that they do not tell you a thing about system setup's and details of GFtoPK and such. There is another quick solution, though, from june.cs.washington.edu under ~/tmp and ~/tex there is a TeX/LaTeX document package called TeXGuide.tar.Z of which I am the author. It tells you many things which can't be found all in a book elsewhere about TeX, LaTeX, MetaFont, PK, GF, PXL, DVI, PostScript and device drivers like dvi2ps. >>\bigtenrm=cmr10 scaled\magstep2 for this specific problem, you need nothing more than a file 'cmr10.tfm' in the directory which is defined by "TEXFONTS" environment variable in DOS and UNIX and TEX$FONTS logical name in VMS. JB Wang jbw@cisunx.UUCP jbw@pittvms.bitnet