saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (12/19/89)
I'm slowly getting up to speed on TeX (running on a VAX) and Metafont (on my Atari ST), together with various viewers. Not a guru in sight, unfortunately And the manuals kinda assume the availability of one. So I have a few questions 1) Once virmf has read plain.bas, is there any way of interrogating it on-line as to what the settings corresponding to various modes are? 2) Can anyone tell me the settings for the modes built into plain.bas for the Atari ST (as available on panarthea)? 3) The printing of WEB documents that incorporate changes seems to be MASSIVELY affected by a thing called '\maybe'. I keep finding places where it's set, but noplace where it's either tested or conditionally set. Any help? Any pointers? 4) So I lied in the header..here's something else: I have neither a .DVI driver for my Star NX-1000 nor the connections to support ftp. Any pointers to source or Atari ST executables of (I presume)dvieps? Is some file I already have likely to be a good skeleton to build my own from? 5) (getting weird) My printer supports color. Does the TeX universe? Steve J.