cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) (12/12/86)
<munch> I finally got my dvi->2700 driver working, but the fonts I get from converting the TeX cm* fonts to 2700 format are really weedy. Looking at them shows they often have lines only one pixel wide, and this just doesn't work very well on the 2700. I assume this is a write-white vs. write-black problem, so that's my first question - Am I right ? Now, I have all the metafont input to these fonts, so I'm thinking it must be possible to produce some more appropriate fonts. I would hate to spend weeks wading through the sources tweaking this parameter and that, only to find I could have put a "write_white:" statement at the top of one of the files, so my next question is - How do I tell metafont to produce thicker characters ? (Assume I know nothing about metafont in your answers - this is pretty close to the truth). Thanks in anticipation. -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick.daisy ARPA: cudcv@daisy.warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 203 523037 Rob McMahon, Computer Unit, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) (12/16/86)
In article <187@sol.warwick.ac.uk> I write: ><munch> > >I finally got my dvi->2700 driver working, but the fonts I get from converting >the TeX cm* fonts to 2700 format are really weedy. > ... > >Now, I have all the metafont input to these fonts, so I'm thinking it must >be possible to produce some more appropriate fonts. Well thanks to Nelson H.F. Beebe <Beebe@arpa.utah-science> and particularly to Karl Berry <kbb%edu.brown.cs@relay.cs.net>, and having R'dTFS&M I find that when you make Metafont, you really ought to add a local changes file on the end of the plain base (i.e. ** plain ; input local ; dump ; end), an example of which lives in waits.mf. This defines modes which describe your output devices. I used the qms mode, and this seems a fair first approximation. When you install TeX, it seems you shouldn't just accept the pk/pxl files supplied, but you really should install metafont at the same time, and make up a set of fonts appropriate to your output device. It seems a shame that neither the TeX, nor the Metafont installation instructions point you in this direction, but you either have to read the Metafont book, or the sources to plain.base. If anyone has any accurate values for 'blacker', 'fillin', and 'o_correction' for a Xerox 2700 I'd appreciate seeing them. Rob -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!cudcv JANET: cudcv@uk.ac.warwick.daisy ARPA: cudcv@daisy.warwick.ac.uk PHONE: +44 203 523037 Rob McMahon, Computer Unit, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England