From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 10:34:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26800 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:34:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from pelican.com (pelican.com [134.24.4.62]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26790 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:34:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by pelican.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #10) id m0tZMP0-0000SMC; Mon, 8 Jan 96 10:34 PST Message-Id: Date: Mon, 8 Jan 96 10:34 PST From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: TeX: no `mf' files? Newsgroups: freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article you write: >I don't quite know where this question belongs, I guess it could be >related to having problems with making the handbook (even though I'm >trying to make a test document :-) ). It probably belongs in ports...in >any case... >Apparently, dvips has a problem finding a file called `cmbx10.mf'. >Looking in the mf(1) man page, it mentiones >/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/mf, a directory which doesn't exist on my system. >I built the tex, latex, latex209, and dvips ports, in that order. I don't know if our ports relocate stuff (I don't use them for TeX; prefer to use the KB 'out-of-box' versions from shsu) but if you've installed from an shsu ftp from the last year it'll be in /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src... >Pointers? Since kpathsea looks in subdirs for fonts it would find the source if the trailing 'mf' weren't there... That was the current place about a year-and-a-half or more ago, but the 'lib' tarball on CTAN has been reorganized since... now under /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts is: adobe bitstream public tmp ams pk texfonts.map urw (and tmp should be perms 777t (or just 777) if you want dvips and xdvi to work...) One problem with the TeX distribution is that 'MakeTeXPK' doesn't get replaced automatically on a reinstall of a later version, and the older ones don't understand the newer directory setup. This is sort-of documented but caused me lots of grief a couple of years ago when it changed. If you didn't have an older distribution installed this wouldn't be a problem :-) -- Pete