MACKAY@WARD.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Pierre MacKay) (03/17/87)
First of all, let me repeat Rick's comment that most of the support services included on the Unix TeX distribution are contributions from all over. It is often difficult even to find a machine to test them for validity before incorporating them into the distribution. That means we need help! All the time. DVI2PS A hacker's delight. It ``growed like Topsy'' from accretions borrowed from various rather irrelevant devices. It has inevitably acquired lots of cruft along with what functionality it has got. I have a verbal assurance that something new and wornderful is on the way. I sure hope so. I can't find my way around the program any more. LN03 I have sent this out to I don't know how many users, usually with an appeal to them to send me back any refinements that would allow me to put it into a regular TeXdevices directory rather than leaving it as ``unsupported'' No word. HEY GUYS!!! If anyone out there is using an LN03 successfully for TeX, and has some worthwhile modifications from the generic driver I send out, let me know. Send it along. I'll even put a WRITE-WHITE font generation script in the directory so you can have less anaemic looking fonts. HP LaserJet+ Real hope here. Nelson Beebe at the University of Utah is finishing up work on that device. DVI2??? Got any goodies I haven't mentioned? PLEASE send them along. DVItoVDU There seems to be a rumor that I have a Unix compatible distribution tape of this. No such luck. Does anyone out there have it? Or shall I try Australia again? Lastly. 300 dpi output is nice, but it isn't the ultimate cat's pyjamas. Don't forget genuine typesetting. I have a feeling that the breakthrough must come soon, and that some typesetter manufacturer will actually see what a super market even a tenth of the TeX sites could be. Typesetting is still the most obscurantist industry in the country, but they may wake up some day. The ITC journal U&lc actually advertised the hardback set of Computers and Typesetting in the last issue. They have been desperately trying to pretend that TeX didn't exist for 8 years now, and as for Metafont..... Pierre A. MacKay TUG Site Coordinator for Unix-flavored TeX -------