mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP (07/01/88)
I have written a TeX screen previewer for the IBM PS/2 family. This thing is based on the driver family by Nelson Beebe et.al of Utah. It requires a system with 512K and a VGA or MCGA screen (monochrome or color) or a clone with a mode 17 480x640xblack and white. I will eventually put the source code in his FTP-able archive. I could post the binary in comp.binaries.ibm.pc if anyone is interested. However, to use it you would need the fonts. They can be gotten by ftp from Utah. The problem is that to use it well you need lots of fonts, including at least those at 92, 100, 110, and 121 dots per inch, plus a few others. Utah does not have 92 and 110. Without those, it will work, but does a lot of sluggish font substitutions. I have no way to let people get these, and they are too big to post. This thing is quite fast, at least on my Model 80, and looks a LOT better then the commercial EGA ones I foolishly paid big bucks for. Let me know if anyone is interested in this right now. Eventually (when Beebe gets back from vacation) it will definately appear. Doug McDonald (mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)
akk2@ur-tut (Atul Kacker) (07/01/88)
In article <47700018@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >I have written a TeX screen previewer for the IBM PS/2 family. This thing >is based on the driver family by Nelson Beebe et.al of Utah. It requires >a system with 512K and a VGA or MCGA screen (monochrome or color) or >a clone with a mode 17 480x640xblack and white. I will eventually >put the source code in his FTP-able archive. I could post the binary >in comp.binaries.ibm.pc if anyone is interested. Yes!!! I sure would like it posted and I'm sure there are others who would love to have it. Could you also mail the binaries to the simtel20 archives so that people with ftp access can get it from there ? I forget the mailing address of the keeper of the msdos files on simtel20. Perhaps someone out there remember ? >However, to use it >you would need the fonts. They can be gotten by ftp from Utah. The >problem is that to use it well you need lots of fonts, including >at least those at 92, 100, 110, and 121 dots per inch, plus a few others. >Utah does not have 92 and 110. Without those, it will work, but >does a lot of sluggish font substitutions. I have no way to let people >get these, and they are too big to post. What fonts does it use ? .PXL, .GF or .PK ? Would be nice if it were .PK fonts, cause the DVI driver I use also uses .PK fonts (Thanks, Beebe!) and would be nice not to have .PXL fonts also on the already cramped hard disk. Maybe some kind soul could also have these fonts available for anonymous ftp ? -- Atul Kacker | Internet: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu | UUCP: {ames,cmcl2,decvax,rutgers}!rochester!ur-tut!akk2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (07/02/88)
>I have written a TeX screen previewer for the IBM PS/2 family.
I have posted a kludged-up distribution of this on our VAX. It can
be obtained by anonymous FTP from b.scs.uiuc.edu, that is, the
part I wrote. This is not really a finished product, so PLEASE don't
repost it. I will remove it in about 10 days.
Doug McDonald
(mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu)