by > Every time I try to run xdvi on the redhat linux 3.0.3 system I am
> using, it insists on using metafont to recreate the fonts, even if it
> has already done this. How can I set up so that the fonts do not need
> to be recreated every time? Also, xdvi sometimes comes out with wonky
> stuff such as misaligned page numbers on index pages.
junk that xdvi is coming out with when I run it. Here is one example
of some of the junk (there is a lot more of this) :
###################### beginning of xdvi junk
kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmss9 600 600 1+0/600 ljfour
MakeTeXPK: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; scrollmode; input cmss9
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718 (C version 6.1)
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmss9.mf
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmbase.mf)
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/roman.mf
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romanu.mf [65] [66] [67] [68]
[69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83]
[84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90])
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romanl.mf [97] [98] [99] [100]
[101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112]
[113] [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122])
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/greeku.mf [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]
[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10])
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romand.mf [48] [49] [50] [51]
[52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57])
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romanp.mf [36] [38] [63] [62])
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romspl.mf [16] [17] [25] [26]
[27] [28]) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romspu.mf [29] [30]
[31]) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/punct.mf [33] [60] [35]
[37] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [46] [47] [58] [59] [61] [64] [91] [93]
[96]) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/accent.mf [18] [19] [20]
[21] [22] [23] [24] [32] [94] [95] [125] [126] [127])
(/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romlig.mf [11] [12] [13] [14]
[15]) (/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/comlig.mf [34] [45] [92]
[123] [124]) ) )
Font metrics written on cmss9.tfm.
Output written on cmss9.600gf (128 characters, 20192 bytes).
Transcript written on cmss9.log.
xdvi: Can't find font cmss9; using cmr10 instead at 600 dpi.
################ end of xdvi junk
It's obvious that two things are malfunctioning. First of all the tfm
fonts already seem to exist in
/usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm
but xdvi ignored them. Secondly, it ran metafont to make the tfm
files, but then claimed it could not find them.
Now, this is not just a problem with xdvi, but also with dvips, so the
whole system is probably wrongly set up.
I should point out that I just copied the whole thing from the redhat
distribution so it is as redhat gives it out.
What should I do?
Thanks for your help.
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