Bug 25988
| Summary: | gray.mf refers to wrong mode | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alan Shutko <ats> |
| Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | ats |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-02-07 00:53:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Incidently, this is the same for the black.mf file Thanks. Should be fixed in 1.0.7-13. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010111 gray.mf is is used whenever someone uses gftodvi (for example, when they're working their way through the metafont book). gray.mf by default loads graycx.mf, which is a font for the cx. If the user tries to xdvi the results of gftodvi, it will display incorrectly and the user will get errors of the form: (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/misc/graycx.mf ! This file is for cx only. <to be read again> ; l.4 ...>cx: errmessage "This file is for cx only"; fi and cmr10 will be used instead of the gray font, yielding output which does _not_ look right. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mf cmr10 2. gftodvi cmr10.2602gf 3. xdvi cmr10.dvi Actual Results: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 gray mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input gray This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/misc/gray.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/misc/graycx.mf ! This file is for cx only. <to be read again> ; l.4 ...>cx: errmessage "This file is for cx only"; fi (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/misc/grayf.mf [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122] ) ) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) Font metrics written on gray.tfm. Output written on gray.600gf (123 characters, 13296 bytes). Transcript written on gray.log. mktexpk: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input gray' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. xdvi.bin: can't find font gray; using cmr10 instead at 600 dpi. Yields a picture of the font characters using text characters instead of grayscale pattern. Expected Results: To see expected results, cp `locate gray.mf` . vi gray.mf Change graycx to graylj (Since the default xdvi mode is ljfour) xdvi cmr10.dvi The default xdvi mode is ljfour, but this can be changed in X resources. The default mode for printers will differ. I don't know of any way offhand to set up gray.mf so that it will work for all printers and xdvi, but it should at least work _somewhere_, and I'd suggest that somewhere would be xdvi. This is an upstream bug, btw. This bug has an easy workaround, but the workaround requires knowing about metafont modes and where everything is set up, so the workaround may not be readily apparent to most people, so I feel it should be fixed.