[OS X TeX] I am missing TFM files

[Maarten Sneep]

On 11 nov 2004, at 21:14, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On 11 Nov 2004, at 16:16, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
>> Just had to tex a file using CM fonts, EC and TC to be more specific. 
>> mktextfm and mktexmf were invoked a few times although I had 
>> installed your cm-super i-Package. The reason is that I had then no 
>> TFM files.
>>
>> Is this still true? Is this on purpose? To let us make them when we 
>> *might* need it?
>
> Exactly.
>
> It saves some space in the distribution.

And if you want to generate the most common sizes, just run the allec 
command from the terminal. It takes about 10 minutes to complete.

Maarten

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