Subject: Bug#4174: Unable to use 'dc' fonts in latex2e

From: Richard Kaszeta <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:51:33 -0500

Package: latex
Version: 2e-7

The following input file fails with a 'cannot find dc1000.mf' error

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}
Testing \LaTeX\ and trying to figure out font encodings.

\end{document}

Versions of my TeX installation:

ii  kpathsea        2.6-2          Path searching for TeX & friends
ii  mfbin           2.71-4         Metafont - TeX's font engine
ii  mfnfss          2.1g-2         Use additional Metafont fonts with LaTeX
ii  mflib           1.0-8          Auxiliary files to run Metafont
ii  mfbasfnt        1.0-4          TeX's default fonts and a few others.
ii  latex           2e-7           Write structured documents with TeX
ii  ltxmisc         1.0-1          Additional small styles for LaTeX
ii  ltxtool         1.0-3          Add on macro packages for LaTeX
ii  texbin          3.1415-5       TeX - The typesetting system
ii  texlib          1.0-4          Auxiliary Files to run TeX
ii  texpsfnt        1.0-1          Virtual fonts and TFM's to use Postscript fo
ii  textfm          1.0-3          TeX standard font metric files

-- 
Richard W Kaszeta 			Graduate Student/Sysadmin
[email-masked]			University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta

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From: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 96 18:15 EST

Hi,

this is not a bug. Due to copyright reasons the dc fonts, which use
the T1 encoding, are no more in the mflib package. You got to get the
package "mfdcfnt_1.0-1_all.deb"; It's on "Incoming/" right now (at
least in our mirror here).

Ciao, Emilio.

>>>>> "RK" == Richard Kaszeta <[email-masked]> wrote:

RK> Package: latex
RK> Version: 2e-7

RK> The following input file fails with a 'cannot find dc1000.mf' error

RK> \documentclass{article}
RK> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

RK> \begin{document}
RK> Testing \LaTeX\ and trying to figure out font encodings.

RK> \end{document}

RK> Versions of my TeX installation:

RK> ii  kpathsea        2.6-2          Path searching for TeX & friends
RK> ii  mfbin           2.71-4         Metafont - TeX's font engine
RK> ii  mfnfss          2.1g-2         Use additional Metafont fonts with LaTeX
RK> ii  mflib           1.0-8          Auxiliary files to run Metafont
RK> ii  mfbasfnt        1.0-4          TeX's default fonts and a few others.
RK> ii  latex           2e-7           Write structured documents with TeX
RK> ii  ltxmisc         1.0-1          Additional small styles for LaTeX
RK> ii  ltxtool         1.0-3          Add on macro packages for LaTeX
RK> ii  texbin          3.1415-5       TeX - The typesetting system
RK> ii  texlib          1.0-4          Auxiliary Files to run TeX
RK> ii  texpsfnt        1.0-1          Virtual fonts and TFM's to use Postscript fo
RK> ii  textfm          1.0-3          TeX standard font metric files

-- 
                 Emilio C. Lopes <mailto:[email-masked]>
               Instituto de Fisica da Universidade de Sao Paulo
             Caixa Postal 66318, 05389-970 Sao Paulo - SP, BRAZIL
              Phone: (+55) (11) 818-6724 (Voice) / 818-6715 (Fax)