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Re: Bug#86056: musixtex: workaround for mf bug



On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:58:01AM -0700, Anthony Fok wrote:
> Nice, but shouldn't Metafont itself be fixed instead?
> Is it easy to fix?
> 
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:28:24PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Package: musixtex
> > Version: 0.99-1
> > 
> > Please apply the following patch to the xslhz.mf font file, to
> > workaround a bug in the current version of Metafont.  (Metafont dies

Yes, I've posted a patch for Metafont too.  But in the meantime, until
DEK fixes Metafont upstream sometime in 2002, this fix to the musixtex
fonts will avoid exercising the bug.  And there are gonna be a lot of
people in the world who are not likely to get a fixed Metafont in the
near future.

   Julian

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