jbw@cisunx.UUCP (Jingbai Wang) (05/08/89)
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Subject: New dvi2ps, TeX/LaTeX Guide and Other
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As of today, the version of dvi2ps and TeX/LaTeX guide I submitted to
june.cs.washington.edu are moved into ~/tex in anonymous under the name
w_dvi2ps.tar.Z and TeXGuide.tar.Z. In case any one missed the previous
messages, this version of dvi2ps are rather unique compared to all the
other ones in the following ways,
1. continuous fonts size (not like Knuth said should be at those
magic magsteps), e.g.,
\font\cmreighty=cmr17 at 80pt
to give exactly 80-point font size.
2. on-line help on dvi2ps and TeX/LaTeX through
$dvi2ps -H
and
$dvi2ps -H tex
3. Three specials to include good PostScript file (\psfig), non-standard
PostScript files \special{psfile filename} and full/multi-page
PostScript files \special{pspage filename}.
4. PostScript commands can be used directly in TeX file by
\special{ps-string PostScript commands}
Among other things are Adobe fonts, etc..
The file TeXGuide.tar contains a 110-page guide of TeX/LaTeX in PostScript
format and paged ASCII format (with a viewing file cdoc.c to view), a
non-trivial LaTeX format thesis.tex together with the macros *.sty. I got
the feed back that the file texint.ps does not print properly on his
particular PostScript printer that prints in a reverse order, and I need to
check on that.
Update of these programs/files is to follow up immediately, once I can get
answers from the net for the following two questions:
1. Is TeX public domain? shareware? or just a free software that can be
redistributed? Many people call it public domain, but some people do
not agree because they saw the copyright notes in *.web.
2. I have created one thing called TECPS for the TEC.mak Scribe database
package (developed by myself), and I intend to incorporate it into dvi2ps
and TeX. The name I thought of is TeXps. What is it? I am going to
borrow some space from ~/tmp anonymous, june.cs.washington.edu to store
the file TECPS.ps for the netters to ftp and print on a PostScript printer.
What is does it to provide PostScript like commands in Scribe/TeX, like
\moveto{0 0}\lineto{72 72}
to draw a line. There are many many features in TECPS, and I try to have
them all in dvi2ps.
My question to the net is: is it welcome? and is it worth it?
If I can get enough votes, I will have it ready in two weeks. The reason
I need the votes is I need motivation, because I personally do not use
TeX to write my own thesis and proposals (instead I use my version of
Scribe). Whenever I am motivated by local or remote users, I do some
creative hackings on TeX as well.
JB Wang
jbw@pittvms.bitnet
jbw@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu