Thanks Gary! TFMFONTS had "." in the path, so after copying the .tfm, .mf, and .pk files to my working directory everything started working. I'll try to figure out a better place to put the files after I learn a little more.
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 05:22:46PM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: > | Hi, > | > | I'm trying to use a package for drawing timing diagrams I downloaded from > | CTAN. I'm pretty new to TeX and haven't figured out all the programs yet. > | Specifically I don't where to place all the files in the package. I put them > | in a local directory and which was in my $TEXINPUTS environment > | variable. Here > | is part of the output from "latex main": > > [snip] > > TeTeX is much better than building TeX/LaTeX by hand, or other > distributions I've tried but TeX, in general, is sure a nightmare to > configure. > > Anyway, if I remember correctly, TFM files aren't found via the > TEXINPUTS environment variable, but via the TFMFONTS variable. Take a > look at the file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and look for that variable. If > that doesn't work look at the other gazillion variables in there to > see if you can find where the kpse software is trying to find it. > > One tool I've found that helps a lot with this sort of thing is > kpsewhich. It's what all the TeTeX software uses to find files, and > with the --debug switch it'll help you, slightly, try and find out why > a file isn't being found. > > Good Luck! > Gary -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
