a360ad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Gnurr) (02/28/89)
I picked up the metafont posting today... but haven't a clue as to how to use it... are there docs somewhere out there? Also, FTP'd ssyx.ucsc.edu ...... volume2/fontedit/part01-02 In the dox, it says something about a "second arc'd file" containing about 6 fonts.. including a chinese, mac and others... Any one know where i can get that specified file? Your help is apprecitated.... An all encompassing thanks to those who helped me with the Dumas vs. UNIX uudecode confusion...
a360ad@blake.acs.washington.edu (Gnurr) (02/28/89)
Sorry about my previous posting.....
my address: kevin callahan
a360ad@blake.acs.washington.eduandre@htsa.uucp (Andre van der Vlies) (03/10/89)
Sometime ago Metafont was posted in comp.binaries.atari.st . Is there some
documentation that I missed. If there is I'd like to get that too.
Thanx.
--
Andre v.d. Vlies
Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam
Technische en Maritieme Faculteit
andre@htsa.uucp or ...{backbones}!htsa!andremark@lakesys.UUCP (Mark Storin) (03/12/89)
In article <801@htsa.uucp> andre@htsa.uucp (Andre van der Vlies) writes: >Sometime ago Metafont was posted in comp.binaries.atari.st . Is there some >documentation that I missed. If there is I'd like to get that too. > Thanx. "The METAFONTbook" by Donald E. Knuth, Stanford University. Addison Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-13444-6 As far as I know this is the only documentation on METAFONT. It's by the author of the METAFONT/TeX software. It's pretty good reading (I'm reading it now). -- Mark A. Storin Lake Systems, Milw., WI mark@lakesys.lakesys.COM
dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) (09/10/89)
I am trying to get metafont working on some of my own .mf files. I can get mf on a UNIX system to work on my files but can't seem to make things work on the st. I have all the fonts setup but I may not be setting up things properly. Can anyone who has used MetaFont successfully give me some advice? Particulars: I have a 16 meg partition on my hard drive just for TeX. At the root level I have a \fonts directory which has ALL the fonts from terminator installed. I have gotten TeX and Dvist to work. I have initex and virtex from terminator but when I try to run either on my .mf file I get an exit code of -39 from gulam and nothing (just an exit) from the desktop. My guess is my problem is either the wrong command line options or a bad path setup. I have tried virtex "\mode=screen; input portr70" virtex "input portr70" virtex "\input portr70" Any clues?
XUUM24@PRIME-A.CENTRAL-SERVICES.UMIST.AC.UK (Mr. Stephen Culshaw) (03/07/90)
I have been using METAFONT to generate various fonts for the Atari
TeX previewer SHOWDVI.TTP. I have hit a problem and with only very limited
knowledge of METAFONT, I would appreciate any suggestions as to the cause
of the fault. I have been able to generate the 144gf and 249gf sizes but
when I try to generate the 173gf, this is what I get.
This is METAFONT, C Version 1.5 (no base preloaded)
** \mode=catari;\mag=1.802;input cmss10
(.\cmss10.mf (.\cmbase.mf) (.\roman.mf (.\romanu.mf [65] [66] [67] [68]
[69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83]
[84] [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90]) (.\romanl.mf [97] [98] [99] [100] [101]
[102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113]
[114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122]) (.\greeku.mf [0]
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]) (.\romand.mf [48] [49] [50] [51]
[52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57]) (.\romanp.mf [36] [38] [63] [62]) (.\romspl.mf
[16] [17] [25]
! bad pos.
<to be read again>
;
pos->...XPR3)<=currentbreadth:errmessage"bad pos";
fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.84 pickup tiny.nib; pos11(right_curve,0)
;
? [26]
! bad pos.
<to be read again>
;
pos->...XPR3)<=currentbreadth:errmessage"bad pos";
fi.fi(x(SUFFIX2)r-x(SUFFIX...
l.138 pickup tiny.nib; pos11(right_curve,0)
;
?
Also does any one have the neccessary .MF file for generating the fonts
for the Atari SLM804. Someone posted me a .MF file previously but it
required a couple of files that I've not been able to find - ie. PLAIN.MF
version 1.0a and the corresponding CMBASE.MF - does anyone have them.
The problem relates (I think) to the Atari laser being 'write-white'
% stlaser mode: to generate fonts for the Atari ST laser printer SLM804
mode_def stlaser =
proofing:=0; % no, we're not making proofs
fontmaking:=1; % yes, we are making a font
tracingtitles:=0; % no, don't show titles at all
pixels_per_inch:=300; % that's pretty low resolution
blacker:=-.25; % less blackness
fillin:=.5; % compensate for diagonal fillin
o_correction:=0; % normal overshoot
write_white_engine:=true; % You have to use the modified PLAIN.MF V1.0a
% and the corresponding CMBASE.MF, which has
% to be modified according to TUGboat 1/1987)
enddef;
Thanks for any help
Steve C.
xuum24eao@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Ed Overman) (10/27/90)
I am trying to use MetaFont to generate some "fun" fonts. (MetaFont is the
program which generates the fonts that TeX uses.) However I must not be
understanding something correctly. I can generate some gf fonts but can
find no way of converting them to pk fonts which are needed by dvi and
laser printers. Did I just overlook the program gftopk somewhere? I
pulled over from terminator (oops - atari.archive.umich.edu):
metafont, mf_files, mf_two, mf_three, and cm_mf . Is there another file
I should also have? I am using the previewer showdvi. It too requires
pk fonts but does not contain gftopk. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks, Ed Overman