Package: texlive-fonts-extra Version: 2007.dfsg.1-1 Severity: normal
The bbold font (sans serif blackboard bold) included with texlive-fonts-extra cannot be used at point sizes other than 5,6,7,8,9,10,12,17. Metafont fails with hundreds of lines of errors, beginning with: (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd)kpathsea: Running mktextfm bbold11 mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input bbold11 This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) (/home/ddumas/.texmf-var/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbold11.mf (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbold.mf (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/source/public/bbold/bbparams.mf >> asc_height#-x_height#-0.30714bigcap# ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> : <for(asc_height#)> if(EXPR0)<u_: u_:=(EXPR0);fi ENDFOR min->...);for.uu=(TEXT3):if.uu<u_:u_:=uu;fi.endfor .u_.endgroup l.117 ...height# + space# + fatness#, asc_height#) ; ################################## The same problem appears to have affected an OpenBSD package containing "bbold", and a fix is described at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg12701.html The following sequence of commands, based on the OpenBSD patch, fixed the problem for me: rm /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd rm /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/sauterfonts/subbold.fd mv /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/bbold/Ubbold.fd \ /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/bbold/ubbold.fd mktexlsr ################################## minimal input file demonstrating the problem: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{bbold} \begin{document} $\mathbb{R}$ \end{document} -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.local (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages texlive-fonts-extra depends on: ii texlive-base 2007-13 TeX Live: Essential programs and f ii texlive-common 2007-13 TeX Live: Base component Versions of packages texlive-fonts-extra recommends: ii texlive-fonts-extra-doc 2007.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Documentation files for ii texpower 0.2-5 Macros for creating professional p Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii debconf 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy ii ucf 3.001 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages texlive-fonts-extra is related to: pn tetex-base <none> (no description available) pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available) pn tetex-extra <none> (no description available) ii tex-common 1.9 Common infrastructure for using an __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]