Re: Bug#86056: musixtex: workaround for mf bug
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:30:15PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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?
> > > 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.
I see. DEK = Donald E. Knuth? If so, that was a real Metafont bug, and
not an Web2c bug then? Hmm... Does that mean you'll get a cheque
from Donald Knuth? ;-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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