Re: tetex weirdness
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 02:23:13PM -0500, Joseph Chung wrote:
> > I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade
> > from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R
> > database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need
> > to take 15 minutes to pop up? Anytime I try to do anything with tetex,
> > kpsewhich is eating 98.6% of CPU for 20 minutes. Did I screw up the install > > or is this normal behavior for tetex?
>
> For me it seems that in your tetex installation the generated fonts are not
> kept, and are generated again and again everytime you run it. I don't know
> what can be the reason of such behavior :-(.
I'm not sure about this, but one possible cause of the problem is that the
user doing the TeXing doesn't have write permission in the directories
where metafont is trying to write.
You may be missing this information if lilypond produces the metafont errors
somewhere where you aren't looking.
Robert.
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