Re: psnfss and lw35nfss

[Alan Jeffrey <alanje@cogs.susx.ac.uk>]

 > I still think, this kind of behaviour is better than having no warning at 
 > all, since it allows for searching the error message in the log-file (but 
 > who thinks of that, really?).

Currently you *do* get a warning error, but it's produced by the
dvi-driver rather than TeX.  Dvips prints out a very nice `Warning:
glyph foo missing' message every time you process a document
containing a black box.

 > Making lost characters an error by setting \tracinglostchars=2 seems a 
 > sensible extension to suggest to the e-TeX team.

Or allow VFs to contain arbitrary TeX code and not just \special's :-)

Alan.