[tex-live] tex fails to use TFM made by mktextfm in current directory

[Akira Kakuto]

Hi,

> > 1. I am working in a command window in WinXP.
> > 
> > 2. mbb10.mf (from the mbboard font package) is in the current directory
> > 
> > 3. mbb10.tfm does not exist anywhere.
> > 
> > 4. I run the command "tex test" on the file test.tex whose
> > contents are
> >     \font\mbb=mbb10
> >     \mbb R
> >     \bye
> > I see a message from mktextfm that it wis running mf-nowin and also
> > the obvious screen output of a metafont run, ending with
> >     Font metrics written on mbb10.tfm.
> > Followed soon by the tex error message:
> >    ! Font \mbb=mbb10 not loadable: Bad metric (TFM) file.
> >    <to be read again>
> >                       \mbb
> >    l.2 \mbb
> >             R
> >    ?
> > 
> > 5. I press <return> at the "?" prompt and then run "dir mbb*.*"
> > seeing that the tfm file was indeed made:
> > 11/13/2009  12:20           2,770  mbb10.log
> > 10/24/2001  16:00             495  mbb10.mf
> > 11/13/2009  12:20           1,832  mbb10.tfm
> > 
> > 6. I run "tex test" again and it finishes without error (showing
> > that the TFM file is not "Bad" at all.
> 
> Confirmed.

That was my fault (windows only). The bug will be fixed next time.

Thanks,
Akira