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

[Akira Kakuto]

Hi Dan,

> 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.

Thanks,
Akira