franco@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (04/30/87)
I have found the TeX previewer that was posted to comp.binaries.atari.st to be extremely useful. Unfortunately, only a few fonts were posted with the previewer. However, in case you don't know it, there is a gold mine of fonts at your place of work that is waiting to be plundered (probably). If you have arbortext on an Apollo, all the fonts in ...arbortext/pixels/screen/ will work with the previewer. These are 118dpi, 129dpi, 142dpi, 170dpi,... If your document magnification is magstep1 and you add -m=1025 to the command line of dvist then these packed fonts will be called and will work. The only side effect of using these fonts is you lose the margins (but the atari gives you nice margins already (too bad they are black)). Of course, I don't know if it is legal to take fonts from arbortext - my guess is that it is fine and dandy - its the pxltopk program that you shouldn't take (the one that packs the fonts). I understand that Avy Moise (one of the originators of the previewer) is going to add a switch that will allow the use of pxl fonts. This should greatly add to the number of available fonts. By the way - be sure to use foldrxxx.prg (recently posted) or you will find out first hand what the 40 folder problem is (it's the 52 folder problem on my machine). That reminds me, if we can have the sources or if Avy is listening, it seems that there should be folders separating fonts on the basis of dpi only and all the font files should have names like cmb10.118pk (that is, a complete description of the font). The fonts are very easy to lose track of the way they are currently labeled. While we are suggesting, maybe -m=1025 should be the default instead of -m=1000.