[4047] in Release_7.7_team
Re: tetex and the release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Oct 8 08:11:45 2003
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:11:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200310080337.h983b9SU008265@pothole.mit.edu> (andrew m.
boardman's message of "Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:37:09 -0400")
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"andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Pointing TEXFONTS and TEXINPUTS to the right places got it working for me.
> (I'd think MFINPUTS as well, but it wasn't necessary. I'm not a
> hard-core TeX hacker, though.)
Our policy was to pregenerate a large set of pk fonts, basically to
spare machines that were slow or had little space for generated fonts.
This generation, or arranging for appropriate autogeneration, would be
the (relatively) tricky bit.
> The newtex locker was specifically noted as being deficient.
True, though just on general principles; the user gave no indication
of having tried such a hybrid config.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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