[tex-k] fonts for dvips

[Kevin Cahill]

My dvips can not find the right fonts.
I am running Red Hat linux 7.3
and have installed the updates that
were sent to me by Red Hat's up2date service.

But when using the slides documentclass,
I can't get dvips to find the fonts it needs,
e.g., most subscripts and superscripts
were missing.

Would you be so kind as to tell me how to
configure dvips or how to find and install
a complete set of fonts from the web?

Here is what dvips says when it fails to find the
right fonts:
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2002.10.18:1414' -> fest.ps
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode phaserfs --bdpi 1200 --mag 2+88/1200 
--dpi 2488 lcmss8
mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=phaserfs; mag:=2+88/1200; nonstopmode; input 
lcmss8
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1)

(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/latex/lcmss8.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmbase.mf)
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/latex/sroman.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/latex/sromanu.mf
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romanu.mf [65] [66] [67] [68] [69]
[70] [71] [72] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85]
[86] [87] [88] [89] [90]) [73])
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/romanl.mf
! bad pos.
<to be read again>
                    ;
pos->...XPR3)<=currentbreadth:errmessage"bad pos";

fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.33 pos9(thin_join,360)
                         ; z9l=z5l;
 > 0 WSW 1 SSW WSW 2 WNW NNW 3 NNE ENE 4 5 (ESE SSE) SSW 6 WSW 7 SSW 8 
SSE ESE 9
  ENE NNE 0 (NNW WNW)
! Strange path (turning number is zero).
<to be read again>
                    }}
l.36 ...}...z8e{left}...{up}z7e&super_arc.e(7,6)}}
                                                   ; % bowl
[97]
! bad pos.
<to be read again>
                    ;
pos->...XPR3)<=currentbreadth:errmessage"bad pos";

fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.66 ...pos3(if hefty:thin_join else: hair fi,180)
                                                   ;
! bad penpos.
<to be read again>
                    ;
penpos->...3):if(EXPR3)<=0:errmessage"bad penpos";

fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.67 ...,0); pos6(vair,-90); penpos7(x3l-x3r,-180)
                                                   ;
[98] [99]
! bad pos.
<to be read again>
                    ;
pos->...XPR3)<=currentbreadth:errmessage"bad pos";

fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.122 ... pos3(if hefty:thin_join else: hair fi,0)
                                                   ;
! bad penpos.
<to be read again>
                    ;
penpos->...3):if(EXPR3)<=0:errmessage"bad penpos";

fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.123 ...80); pos6(vair,270); penpos7(x3r-x3l,360)
                                                   ;
[100] [101] [102]
etc.
-- 
Kevin Cahill
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National Institutes of Health        University of New Mexico
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