On Monday 31 October 2005 21:33, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > David Wolfson wrote: > >>Unfortunately, the output was not as I'd hope. Instead of getting a > >>triangle, I have an 'a' in the DVI, > > LaTeX writes out a DVI file which contains a command to load the ifgeo10 > font. When your DVI viewer (xdvi) tries to load the document, it > discovers that the ifgeo10 font does not (yet) exist in your font > directories, so it tries to run mktexpk to generate the specific font > files.
This is the conclusion I was coming to last night. > You might want to ask on comp.text.tex whether anyone there can figure > out why metafont is failing. Good idea - I've just done this here: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/8bfbc83797cdb706/f5531355b8a93b38?hl=en#f5531355b8a93b38 If you want to follow any replies. I'll let you know if I have a breakthrough, Dave
