Font problem

[Herbert Gintis]

I've used Y & Y successfully and without problem since 1999, but now I have
one.
I also found out about this support group and how to access it. So far so
good...
My problem: I use Windows XP.
A set of files I have compiled many times started giving me 50 or so error
messages of the following form:
GetTeXMetrics Failed at byte 148. Can't find font lcircle10 (0).
Font Name: lcircle10 REGULAR (Windows offers 'lcircle10'). Can't get
TexMetrics at byte 148.
This appears to be in response to the following TeX code:
\begin{picture}(83.00,70.00)
\put(20.18,38.35){\circle*{1.20}}
When I use Window's character map, lcircle10 comes up fine.
The file prints fine, also, but the screen version is screwed up.
The suggestions in the readme.txt for dviwindo (whose existence was kindly
supplied to me by Chrstina Thiele) are not relevant for XP. Win.ini has no
fonts listed, atm.ini does not exist, and there are only a few idiotic .fot
files on my hard drive. Page 5 of the Y and Y little manual are equally
irrelevant. There is no c:\winnt folder.
I vaguely recall something special about lcircle---that it used to be part
of LaTeX and then was dropped. But I have no idea what this refers to.
The only thing I did to my computer that could possibly be relevant to this
problem was to install Scientific Word, and then uninstall it about two
weeks later.
The larger problem seems to be that there are no general directions for
handling font problems in XP.
Help with this problem would be appreciated.

Best,

Herb Gintis



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