Re: tlug: Red Hat 5.0 tetex and jlatex?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com> writes:

    Dennis>   While we're talking TeX, does anyone know what I can do
    Dennis> to get 'dvips' working.  I've installed the pLaTeX2e from
    Dennis> Okamura's recent book on the subject (Gijutsuhyouronsha)
    Dennis> and the 'dvipsk' from Eguchi's "Ghostscript: Another
    Dennis> Manual" (Softbank).  The platex works fine, but when I try
    Dennis> to 'dvips' it into Postscript, I get these error messages:

    Dennis>   This is dvipsk 5.58f J1.0 p1.2 Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
    Dennis> ' TeX output 1997.12.18:1348' -> |lpr
    Dennis> kpathsea: Running MakeTeXPK cmr10 600 600 1+0/600 ljfour

I take it that the "J" up there means "Japanese"?

Since this is a kpathsea application, you need to find the texmf.cnf
file and edit it.  Usually somewhere below /usr[/local]/lib/texmf/.
YMMV.  Sorry, I've never actually edited one, so I can't advise you on 
that.

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