Bug#229914: tetex-base: dvips missing tx8r.enc (for txfonts) or bad font mapping

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

On 27.01.04 Phillip First (first@mr-peabody.gatech.edu) wrote:

Hi,

we've been trying to contact you earlier, but your mail server wasn't
reachable. So, trying again...

> Running dvips on a dvi file prepared using package txfonts, I received
> the following message:
> 
>    dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tx8r.enc
> 
> According to the txfonts docs, tx8r.enc is the same as 8r.enc (in dir
> texmf/dvips/psnfss/).  I created a symbolic link from 8r.enc to
> tx8r.enc and it took care of the problem.  Informed Thomas Esser
> (tetex maintainer) who responded:
> 
I have a chrooted sarge and my minimal example reads:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{txfonts}
\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

. It compiles and can be fed to dvips quite fine. Could you please
post a minimal example, which shows up your error?


Regards, Frank for the tetex maintainers
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie