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by **Alain Mul** » Wed, 18 Dec 1996 04:00:00

Hello,

I installed Linux Slackware v2.0 and installed tex 3.1415N, dvips 5.58f,
XEmacs 19.13 and auctex-9.4.

I have some problems

1. dvips always tries to generate its fonts and cannot seem to store
them. This is the message I get when running dvips :

kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmbx25 300 300 1+0/300 localfont
NTeX's MakeTeXPK
Trying to create font cmbx25 (300dpi) at 300dpi (1+0/300) as localfont
Running cmmf...gftopk...pk
mv: replace `cmbx25.300pk', overriding mode 0644?

What should I do to prevent dvips from always regenerating its fonts

2. By using auctex under emacs, when I perform the following
\include{epsf}
in a*document, normally auctex should append the epsffig,
epsfsize, ... macros automatically. This is however not the case. Under
OS/2 it worked fine and I would like to have it also that way under
Linux.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Alain

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by **David Kastru** » Wed, 18 Dec 1996 04:00:00

> I installed Linux Slackware v2.0 and installed tex 3.1415N, dvips 5.58f,
> XEmacs 19.13 and auctex-9.4.

> I have some problems

> 1. dvips always tries to generate its fonts and cannot seem to store
> them. This is the message I get when running dvips :

> =09kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmbx25 300 300 1+0/300 localfont
> =09NTeX's MakeTeXPK
> =09Trying to create font cmbx25 (300dpi) at 300dpi (1+0/300) as localfont=
> =09Running cmmf...gftopk...pk
> =09mv: replace `cmbx25.300pk', overriding mode 0644?

> What should I do to prevent dvips from always regenerating its fonts

Slackware is notorious for its, well, slack support of TeX as the
Slackware maintainers do not use it themselves. Consequently, the
installations of it tend to have problems. You might want to consider
deleting your current installation and fetching a current version of
teTeX from CTAN or acquiring the TeX live CD with it (which carries,
however, a slightly older version). Installing that from scratch has
turned out to be less trouble for me than maintaining the Slackware
delivered TeX.

Quote:> 2. By using auctex under emacs, when I perform the following
> \include{epsf}
> in a*document, normally auctex should append the epsffig,
> epsfsize, ... macros automatically. This is however not the case. Under
> OS/2 it worked fine and I would like to have it also that way under
> Linux.

> Can anyone help?

You might want to do C-c C-n. You might also want to configure AucTeX
for the level of document parsing you want from it. See its info
pages.

And, of course, the epsf package is utterly deprecated. You should be
using the graphics or graphicx package instead.

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dvips v5.58 & linux

dvips v5.58 & linux

dvips v5.58 & linux