Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!minerva!oplinger From: oplinger@minerva.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: TeX,InitTeX,TFM files Summary: Help getting started Keywords: TeX,InitTeX,TFM files Message-ID: <2538@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 26 Sep 89 12:22:45 GMT References: <251D440F.1E2C@marob.masa.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: oplinger@crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 40 Rather long description of problem. I have a problem and only have the TeXbook to work from. I have TeX, initTeX, and virTeX. I have tons of .pk files. I have bunches of .sty files and .tex files. I have plain.fmt and lplain.fmt. I have a directory structure that looks like: d:\fonts d:\fonts\cmr10 d:\fonts\cmr7 ... d:\tex d:\tex\inputs d:\tex\format d:\tex\dvi I can print things, I can review things on screen, and I can sorta TeX things. But I want to be able to really TeX things. So, this is exactly my problem (on an Atari): input line (in a macro): \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. If an Atari type has them please uuc/uud and mail. Others please give me directions on how to make them. I seem to guess I requires using initex and plain.tex, but I'm lost as what to do. If I get enough answers to make a general 'How to startup TeX' posting I will. Brian oplinger@ge.crd.com <#include disclaimer>