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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
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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