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Re: bakoma tfms: Checksum mismatch
At 04:31 PM 98/03/24 +0100, Stefano Frabetti wrote:
>I have bakoma installed, so I have checked the tfm files of bakoma
>against those of cm and the following were reported as differing by
>`diff':
>cmmi6
>cmmi7
>cmmi8
>cmmi9
>cmmib10
Why would you use other than the TFMs you already have?
The Type 1 versions of the fonts supposedly have identical
metrics to the MetaFont/PK versions.
>1. Is it possible that tex uses bakoma's tfm and xdvi cm's, or the other
>way round and this be the cause of the warnings? ---
A dangerous situation when the DVI processor sees different
TFM files than TeX. Which is why I prefer DVI processors
that do not need to refer to TFM files (after all, the font
knows its metrics).
>The fact is I do not
>understand what kind of checksum it is and who does it in the first place.
>2. In each case, why *do* this tfms differ?
Run TFtoPL on the TFM files and compare.
Generally checksum mismatches provide only something between
zero and one bit of information. Which is pretty poor for a
32 bit field (:-)
Berthold