Bug#83146: MF fatal error
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:46:37AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 22.01.01 Julian Gilbey (J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=83146
>
> > Wow! I got a MetaFont "This can't happen (m)" error. Here's how I
> > did it.
> >
> > mf '\mode:=ljfzzz; mag:=1+0/1200; nonstopmode; input xslhz20'
> >
> The author of musixtex seems to have fixed that bug by modifying
> xslhz.mf (patch included). The above given command now runs smoothly.
> Does that satisfy your conditions for closing that bug or do you
> propose a solution in mf.ch?
AFAIK, the 2003 version of Metafont has fixed this bug.
ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/pub/tex/tex03.tar.gz
So you can close this Debian bug report either now or once the 2003
versions are incorporated into the upstream Web2C/teTeX releases.
Julian
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