crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) (09/04/87)
I keep running into font problems that I can't figure out from the documentation (I guess I've got to buy the canonical 5-book set someday.) I'd appreciate any advice on the following: 1. I regularly run into a problem where fonts in unusual sizes are not available, e.g. today when someone wanted amss10.3110pxl. How can I get fonts at particular sizes when they are not part of the distribution? 2. Space for the fonts is getting a little tight here, in part because we need both 118-pixel fonts and 300-pixel fonts. We have both Imagens and Laserwriters around. 2.1 Is there a PK-form (or other compressed form) driver available for the Imagen? 2.2 While we're on the subject, how about an imagen driver that includes options to print only selected pages? The one we have does not. 3. We now have a bunch of Macs and several Mac II's available here. We are doing a lot of illustrations with them. What is the best way to include the illos and diagrams into TeX and LaTeX using either LaserWriter or Imagen? 3.1 In particular, can someone tell me about whatever special magic (or \special magic) is needed to put arbitrary PostScript stuff into the middle of a TeX file to be printed on a laserwriter? 4. Is TeXHaX being mailed out any more? I no longer get them, and have not been getting them for a couple of months at least. Thanks for all responses, Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm) -- Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm)
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (09/05/87)
Sorry if the answers are short, these are only pointers to help people. In article <10173@duke.cs.duke.edu> crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) writes: | |I keep running into font problems that I can't figure out from the |documentation (I guess I've got to buy the canonical 5-book set |someday.) I'd appreciate any advice on the following: | |1. I regularly run into a problem where fonts in unusual sizes are not |available, e.g. today when someone wanted amss10.3110pxl. How can I get |fonts at particular sizes when they are not part of the distribution? Bring up METAFONT and generate all the sizes you need. |2. Space for the fonts is getting a little tight here, in part because |we need both 118-pixel fonts and 300-pixel fonts. We have both Imagens |and Laserwriters around. | |2.1 Is there a PK-form (or other compressed form) driver available for |the Imagen? Yes, Nelson Beebe's driver supports PK fonts on a variety of printers, including Imagen. Ftp anonymous to science.utah.edu, cd aps:<tex.dvi>. |2.2 While we're on the subject, how about an imagen driver that |includes options to print only selected pages? The one we have does |not. Has this feature. Also look at dviselect if you have Unix TeX. |3. We now have a bunch of Macs and several Mac II's available here. We |are doing a lot of illustrations with them. What is the best way to |include the illos and diagrams into TeX and LaTeX using either |LaserWriter or Imagen? The PostScript version of the driver can include PostScript generated elsewhere. Some PS prologue needs to be included. There are a bunch of DVI to PS drivers available that will make this easier. See my answer to 4. |3.1 In particular, can someone tell me about whatever special magic (or |\special magic) is needed to put arbitrary PostScript stuff into the |middle of a TeX file to be printed on a laserwriter? It depends on the PostScript you are trying to include. Mac generated documents require a prologue called MacPrep. Tpic documents require a prologue to define procedures to draw elipses, splines, etc. |4. Is TeXHaX being mailed out any more? I no longer get them, and have |not been getting them for a couple of months at least. Yes, it is going strong and this is you best place to get more detailed answers. The address to get added is texhax-request@score.stanford.edu. There are many people on the list who know more than I do about these matters. Ken