laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/01/85)
From: David Fuchs <DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA> There is an LN03 driver for Vax/VMS on the latest TeX distribution tape. It is contributed software, so I don't know any detailed answers about it; but as it was written by a DEC employee, I suspect you may find in it the answers to some of the questions that the LN03 documentation does not address. If someone wants to work on a Unix version, I'd be glad to send a gratis copy of the VMS stuff to work from. Hardware that makes stupid assumptions about the number of characters in a font is not uncommon. A number of driver programs divvy up "real" fonts into bogus character sets for such machines; this can have the advantage that if your job only uses a few characters from a given font, only those images need to be down-loaded. As for the chicken-and-egg documentation problem, another way to get pretty listings of the various TeX-land programs is through the document sales person at the Comp. Sci. Dept. here at Stanford. Or you can bribe me with that grilled cheese and (Rev. A) Coke. -david -------