raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) (09/16/89)
Has anyone ported LaTeX to HP 9000/300 series machines? We're looking for it. Guess I should inquire about TeX, texx, & texx2 also... I believe Bo Thide recently mentioned them but weren't they generated for 800 series machines? We run TeX on VAXes now, but I didn't have much success with getting a workable font configuration for either texx or texx2. ---------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@isi.edu
irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') (09/23/89)
In article <9689@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes: > > Has anyone ported LaTeX to HP 9000/300 series machines? > We're looking for it. > > Guess I should inquire about TeX, texx, & texx2 also... > I believe Bo Thide recently mentioned them but weren't they > generated for 800 series machines? We run TeX on VAXes now, ^^^ INCORRECT! (See below.) > but I didn't have much success with getting a workable font > configuration for either texx or texx2. Presently the HP TeX package contains TeX 2.93, METAFONT, LaTeX, PiCTeX, xdvi (X11 and X10 versions), texx (X11 version) in C source. They compile and run OK on *BOTH* the HP9000/300 and 800 series machines. All but a few also run on the 9000/500. For convenience, we have included the most important compiled binaries for 300 and 800 too. Even if 'texx2' is currently missing in the package, there are still two other fully functional X11R2 previewers included ('xdvi' and 'texx') plus an X10R4 one ('xdvi'). There are a few ftp sites being set up but you may alternatively send me a 150 ft (16Mb) HP streamer cassette and I'll make a 'tar' copy for you. My full mail address is: Swedish Institute of Space Physics S-755 91 Uppsala Sweden (No street or P.O. box needed). --Bo ^ Bo Thide'-------------------------------------------------------------- | | Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden |I| [In Swedish: Institutet f|r RymdFysik, Uppsalaavdelningen (IRFU)] |R| Phone: (+46) 18-403000. Telex: 76036 (IRFUPP S). Fax: (+46) 18-403100 /|F|\ INTERNET: bt@irfu.se UUCP: ...!uunet!sunic!irfu!bt ~~U~~ -----------------------------------------------------------------sm5dfw
milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (09/24/89)
In article <1186@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes: >In article <9689@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes: >> Has anyone ported LaTeX to HP 9000/300 series machines? >> We're looking for it. >There are a few ftp sites being set up but you may alternatively send Bo's TeX package is available for anonymous distribution from me10.lbl.gov (128.3.128.110). Standard disclaimers apply. John Milburn - Advanced Light Source - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory INTERNET: JEMilburn@lbl.gov BITNET: JEMilburn@LBL.bitnet UUCP: {...}!ucbvax!lbl.gov!JEMilburn SnailMail: 1 Cyclotron Road 46-161 Berkeley, Ca. 94720 Ph: (415) 486-6969 John Milburn - Advanced Light Source - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory INTERNET: JEMilburn@lbl.gov BITNET: JEMilburn@LBL.bitnet UUCP: {...}!ucbvax!lbl.gov!JEMilburn SnailMail: 1 Cyclotron Road 46-161 Berkeley, Ca. 94720 Ph: (415) 486-6969
raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) (09/27/89)
In article <3861@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) writes: > In article <1186@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') writes: > > >There are a few ftp sites being set up but you may alternatively send > > Bo's TeX package is available for anonymous distribution from > me10.lbl.gov (128.3.128.110). Standard disclaimers apply. Thanks folks, I've picked up the most recent copy. Besides Bo Thide' and John Milburn, thanks are due to Scott Hammond, who physically carried a tape of an earlier version into my office. Thanks also to Michael Glad Mike Caldwell, who offered advice and help if the more reachable FTP sources hadn't materialized. At the first tentative check of LaTeX, it looks good. On a 28-page document that has some demanding features such as graphs and math, speed is about a tie between my 370 and our VAX 8650. I can preview most of it with an old version of XDVI that's tolerant of missing fonts, but will have to track down problems (probably all missing fonts) with other previewers and print programs. Tomorrow I'll look at merging in fonts from our VAX directories. But we're making progress... if we discover anything that may be of help to others I'll report back on it. ---------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@isi.edu
raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) (09/29/89)
In article <9894@venera.isi.edu>, raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes: > > But we're making progress... if we discover anything > that may be of help to others I'll report back on it. The first things that needed attention were the fonts in the pk300 directory. These are symbolic links to files in subdirectories named '*pt' (like '10pt'), but they all referred to path a path of the form /7959/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk300/*pt. (Might be misremembering the number.) It was necessary to redo all of these symbolic links. I'm trying the latest xdvi from expo.lcs.mit.edu, and it looks good except for sometimes blowing up with a floating point exception, possibly on graphic special functions. Which program(s) do people use for printing .dvi files? (We have 2 different lpr programs plus lp, and the first try at printing a dvi file flopped. Will try a bit later to generate iptex...) ---------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@isi.edu