ugleung@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Leung Lee) (07/10/89)
Hi, I was digging up some old tex discussion news articles, hoping they can help solve my problems, but unfortunately, no, that is not the case all all. I need a lot of help from you all, I am currently trying to run DOSTEX and SBTEX. For DOSTEX, I can't get it to compile since the maximum stack size is 60, which I exceeded with less than a page of latex file. It said something such as "if you absolutely need more capacity, you can ask wizard to enlarge me." Now I did a text search digging into all the tex distribution files, any occurrences of wizard was inside tex and latex executable binary files. The question is, how can I enlarge wizard??? Are there any subtle aspects to running tex and latex that I should know about??? And also, the dvieps printer driver does not work looking for certain fonts. As far as I know the fonts are all there, perhaps it wants a different set, but no suffixes are reported so I wouldn't know which, I have pk and tfm fonts. Thanks! Leung
allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) (07/11/89)
In article <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugleung@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Leung Lee) writes: > case all all. I need a lot of help from you all, I am currently > trying to run DOSTEX and SBTEX. For DOSTEX, I can't get it to compile > since the maximum stack size is 60, which I exceeded with less than a > page of latex file. It said something such as "if you absolutely need > more capacity, you can ask wizard to enlarge me." Now I did a text SBTeX is probably the best choice, right now, for PC based TeXing. I heard reported that SBTeX is 3 or more times faster than DOSTeX. To use LaTeX with SBTeX, use the LaTeX files (lplain.tex, lfonts.tex, and latex.tex) and the SBTeX version of INITEX to make the lplain.fmt file. You need to make sure that you do this on a PC with 640K and a minimum of RAM resident options, otherwise you will get out of memory errors. You will also need all the .tfm files used by LaTeX. Whenever you run LaTeX make sure you have as close to 640K free as possible or you may run out of memory during processing. DVIVGA is the only PD previewer I have found that will let you preview LaTeX files, but to use it you need EGA or VGA graphics, a fast computer (286 or 386 unless you're very patient), and a fast hard with about 5 megs free for fonts. DVIVGA is available on SIMTEL20 in 9 big archives. If anyone has found a better PD implamentation of TeX and/or previewer, please post info to the net about where to get it. -- Kevin Allred allred@emx.cc.utexas.edu allred@ut-emx.UUCP
johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) (07/13/89)
In article <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugleung@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Leung Lee) writes: > [ First problem deleted because I don't have an answer. ] > > And also, the dvieps printer driver does not work looking for certain >fonts. As far as I know the fonts are all there, perhaps it wants a >different set, but no suffixes are reported so I wouldn't know which, >I have pk and tfm fonts. If the dvieps is based on the Beebe driver code (as so many drivers are) then you could use the flag -d16 in order to get it to spit out the name of any files that it fails to load. That's what I had to do with my dvijep driver. The flags are -d# where # is any of the following added together: 1 (DVIJET only) print page bitmap in hex 2 display page coordinates and metrics of each output char and print each character bitmap in hex 4 (DVIJEP only) display updated page coordinate of each char after each call to fixpos() 8 print file name and open mode of each successful file open 16 print file name and open mode of each unsuccessful file open 32 show discarded off-page text 64 trace virtual font caching 128 trace character setting (lots of output) If it isn't based on the Beebe driver code then I'm sorry but I can't help. John Munsch
sbs@iesd.dk (Sten Baek) (07/14/89)
In article <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Leung Lee writes: > >Hi, > >I was digging up some old tex discussion news articles, hoping they >can help solve my problems, .... [stuff deleted] > And also, the dvieps printer driver does not work looking for certain >fonts. As far as I know the fonts are all there, perhaps it wants a >different set, but no suffixes are reported so I wouldn't know which, >I have pk and tfm fonts. > >Thanks! > >Leung I have also experienced another problem with the dvieps printer driver. When I print a document on my 9-pin Star LC-10 printer everything seems fine while it is printing the first few lines, but then it suddenly stops printing in graphics-mode and displays garbage all over the page, and then it suddenly returns to graphics-mode and continues printing the document. This goes on for a while depending on the document. It looks to me as if dvieps doesn't specify the correct number of data to the printer's graphics command, but I haven't looked into it enough to be sure about it. Has anyone out there experienced the same thing or is it just me that doesn't know how to use dvieps correctly? I have recently retrieved dvieps as a part of the DosTeX archive from Simtel20, and it seems that it's an experimental version, so maybe that is the reason. Anyway, I would like to hear if anyone has a solution to my dvieps-problem, or perhaps if someone has pointers to other DVI printer drivers that support 240 dpi (9-pin matrix). Thanks in advance Sten B{\ae}k S{\o}rensen sbs@iesd.dk Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Aalborg University Denmark