I started muddling through _The METAFONTbook_. Recently, I got to Chapter 5, in which Knuth prompts his readers to give METAFONT a spin. Everything went well (enough) until I was faced using TeX.
Knuth says you might have to find a local wizard to figure this out, but usually I am that wizard. I put my io.tfm file in /var/cache/fonts/tfm/local/io/io.tfm, and I put io.2600pk in /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/local/io/io.2600pk, and then I ran texhash. TeX seemed to find the io.tfm file, and dvips seems to find the io.2600pk file, as does kpsewhich. But dvilj4 doesn't seem to find the io.2600pk file, and I don't know how to make it wise. Or, more likely, it's not even looking for my io.2600pk file. dvilj suggests that I forgot to run dvicopy, but running dvicopy blindly (without knowing why) to make a second dvi doesn't make any difference: when I print the resulting .lj file with my LaserJet 1100, I get a nearly-blank page, with all the text typeset in Computer Modern showing up fine, and all the text typeset with my `io' font simply being plain, blank, white space, with no glyphs printed at all. So I've simply switched to using dvips + ghostscript, which is easy enough, albeit slow. Still, I would like to know how dvilj looks for its bitmap fonts. What do I need to know about dvilj, and how shall I learn it?
