[6456] in Athena Bugs
BUGS in manpage for TeX and LaTeX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 26 01:11:08 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 01:10:55 EST
From: Robert P Poole <tarquin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I was fiddling with my environment variables for LaTeX, and I discovered a
couple bugs.
(1) The variable TEXFORMATS will not yield correct results if it is set to
.:/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros, as the man page states is the default. Rather,
proper operation requires that TEXFORMATS be set to
.:/usr/athena/lib/tex/formats -- why is this?
(2) Apparently, the variable TEXTFM as listed in the manpage is not the correct
variable to point to TFM files for TeX to use. Rather, I found that TeX could
only work properly if TEXFONTS were set to a particular path. (In this case, I
needed a TFM for a font not available anywhere except in SIPB, and I didn't
feel like copying the fonts to my directory.)
Robert P. Poole tarquin@athena.mit.edu
46 Massachusetts Avenue MIT Course VIII
311B Bexley Hall "We make Idols of our concepts, but
Cambridge, MA 02139 wisdom is born of wonder."
-- St. Gregory the Illuminator
