Re: [MiKTeX] =?iso-8859-1?B?Uulm?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2E?= : Re: [MiKTeX] Own syle files not found

[Hans F. N. <ha...@mi...>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:47:51PM -0400, ger...@dg... wrote:
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>    Why do I need the "Input Dirs=.;c:
>    \latex//;%R\etex\latex//;%R\etex\generic//;%R\etex//;%R\tex\latex//;%R\tex\generic//;%R\tex//
>  in my "miktex.ini" file?  Why going to MiKTeX options -> Roots then adding
>    "C:\latex\ownsty" to the Roots path and refreshing the FNDB not
>    sufficient for MiKTeX to find the style files in "C:\latex\ownsty"?

Careful - if you use a localtexmf tree you need to follow TDS[1]. If you make
C:\latex\ownsty your localtexmf tree, you should put your LaTeX files into
C:\latex\ownsty\tex\latex\ and subdirectoires of it. This is FAQ. 

NB! If you use a localtexmf tree you alsways have to refresh the filename
database when you add a file. That's not necesssary if you just modify the 
input path/dirs.

NB! NB! If you already had C:\latex\ownsty defined as a localtexmf tree when
you run "initexmf --personal=..." that is the reason LaTeX didn't find your
files.  So either remove "C:\latex\ownsty" has a localtexmf tree or follow
TDS.

>    When I have the line specified in (1) in my personnal "miktex.ini" file
>    then LaTeX runs happily but then when I run dvips the log gives me the
>    same errors as reported yesterday, in particular it says:
> 
> Trying to make PK font "ecrm1728" (at 600 DPI)...
> Creating "ecrm1728.pk"...
> "mf" \mode:=ljfour; \mag:=magstep(0.0);nonstopmode;input ecrm1728
> This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (MiKTeX 2.4)
> 
> (C:\MiKTeX\texmf\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\ecrm1728.mf
> (C:\MiKTeX\texmf\fonts\source\jknappen\ec\exbase.mf
> You are using plain.mf 2.0 or older
> please update to plain.mf 2.71 or newer ) )
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> I searched for file "plain.mf" in the MiKTeX tree, I found two of them:
> 
> -- one in C:\MiKTeX\texmf\fonts\source\public\kdgreek
> -- a second one in C:\MiKTeX\texmf\metafont\base
> 
> Why two versions in the same distribution of MiKTeX?  Did I do something
> wrong in installing MiKTeX?  Should I reinstall from scratch?  If yes what
> should I watch for so I don't get in the same mess?

Why did you install the kdgreek package? Do you use greek fonts? If not, just 
uninstall the kdgreek package  using MiKTeX Package Manager (MPM). The reason
such naming conflicts occour is that the package authors doesn't do their job.
It's not a bug of MiKTeX.

Regards,
Hans

[1] http://tds.tug.org/tds/