[7351] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.2R: latex man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 21 15:39:18 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 15:39:00 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: podge
Type and version: KN01 7.2R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PM-MONO
What were you trying to do?
Use some fonts not in the standard path
What's wrong:
The man page is WRONG.
What should have happened:
The man page should be right.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
From latex(1):
TEXTFM
Search path for font metric files. The entire path must be
no longer than 100 characters long. The default doesn't
include the current area (".") to avoid confusing the pro-
grams that convert the output for printing on the various
output devices (most of which don't know about the path
stuff yet). Default: .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/fonts
% strings /usr/athena/tex | grep TEX
TEXFORMATS
TEXINPUTS
TEXFONTS
TEXPOOL
TEXEDIT
I don't see TEXTFM in the tex binary, nor do I see TEXFONTS in the man
page. lose, lose. Trying TEXFONTS does do what I want, so I'll use
that, but the man page should be fixed. Also, isn't 100 chars
incredibly short? Two afs paths would easily be longer than that, and
I can forsee wanting as many as four paths there.
