grunwald@FLUTE.CS.UIUC.EDU (Dirk Grunwald) (02/25/89)
Hi, texx2.7 is finished & installed in the normal places. Diffs w.r.t 2.6 are available. This version fixes several problems that caused core dumps. I was being sloppy about zeroing variables, used to indicate that something had been freed already. Also, the annoying problem of displaying font names when using high optimization has been found & fixed. It was related to using two instances of the macro ``mgetbyte'' on a single line. I compiled it with gcc 1.33, -finline-functions -fstrength-reduce & it works. Dana Chee fixed several toolkit related problems & layout is much nicer. You can also specify a filename on the command line if you like. Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu
ssroy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steve Scot Roy) (02/26/89)
In article <8902250212.AA15587@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald%flute.cs.uiuc.edu@a.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Hi, texx2.7 is finished & installed in the normal places. Diffs w.r.t 2.6 >are available. Sorry, but I'm new here. Where are the normal places for this?
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (03/01/89)
In article <6643@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> ssroy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steve Scot Roy) writes: In article <8902250212.AA15587@flute.cs.uiuc.edu> grunwald%flute.cs.uiuc.edu@a.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Hi, texx2.7 is finished & installed in the normal places. Diffs w.r.t 2.6 >are available. Sorry, but I'm new here. Where are the normal places for this? Sorry, that's: expo.lcs.mit.edu: contrib/texx2.8 a.cs.uiuc.edu : pub/TeX/texx2.8 also, if any X server wizard wants to fritter away their copious amounts of idle time, I have a self-contained package that reads `pk' fonts into PADGLYPHWIDTHBYTES-wide structures, although it doesn't do word/byte/bit swapping yet. The intent is that someone well meaning person could make the X server grok the `PK' font format, which is machine-independent, very compact and reasonably quick to unpack. It some kind soul would like to waste...er..spend their time doing this, just speak up. Likewise, if anyone has any suggestions/patches to texx2, please don't hesitate to mail. 2.9, whenever it is released will free you from having to flip between two windows (pages stay up between opens & there's a `reopen' button in the page window). Also, it correctly compensates for scrollbar widths (by looking in ViewPortP.h). The only outstanding problem is that I need to use the FontStruct information to compute the actual widths of each glyph that's layed down to improve the accumulated rounding error in glyph placement ( I hadn't realised this was possible without querying the server ) -- Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu