I have not used texfont in quite a while, but it seems something has gone wrong as this was the output I got. Same result if prefixed with texmfstart. This is debian linux and perl is ~$ perl --version This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi ~$ texfont Global symbol "$uselmencodings" requires explicit package name at /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 202. Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 873. Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 964. Global symbol "$theencoding" requires explicit package name at /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 965. Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 1042. Global symbol "$lm" requires explicit package name at /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl line 1169. Execution of /home/johans/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/perl/texfont.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell