<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 21:03, mario chiari <<a href="mailto:ml@mariochiari.net">ml@mariochiari.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> > it puzzles me why I do not need anything special to compile when I call the<br>
> > 2016 texlive<br>
> <br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You were calling pdftex by full path so most of the time it will work even if you are using an account which does not have the texlive 2019 bin in its path, but the log you showed initially showed that on that document a missing font caused it to run mktextfm to try to generate the font with metafont, so at that point it picks up the wrong script as the path is wrong and thing go bad. Presumably by now your texlive 2016 setup has most fonts generated that are needed and so you get lucky more often.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div></div></div>