dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier) (04/16/88)
I have a problem with TeX not producing ligature characters when the font is not the default (i.e., cmr10). In place of the proper ligature we get a --, $, or a ~ character depending on which ligature was to be used. I realize that some font file must be missing or needs to be rebuilt but I have no idea what the procedure is. We are running the TeX distribution from the University of Washington on a VAX 11/780 and sending the output to an Imagen 3320 laser printer. I have had several other problems with this distribution many of which are still unsolved. How does one generate different sizes of the pxl files? We need to be able to print different sized circles in LaTeX but can't. I run the identical LaTeX file under PCTeX and the circles appear. The only circle fonts I could find were in 300gf, and mf format. I created the tfm files and 1500pxl files but how do you get pxl files for other sizes??? Is there perhaps someone who has the TeX distribution set up on a BSD 4.3 machine and running an Imagen laser that is willing to write a set of tapes for us. I would be more than willing to send all necessary tapes as well as pay full return postage. Perhaps we should wait for the new release of TeX from Washington? Written in C instead of Pascal and supposedly faster, I hear. One last thing, much of the documentation that came with TeX seemed to have used the older set of amr style fonts. Of course the distribution of TeX didn't include these fonts. Needless to say printing out the documentation wasn't a fun chore. Where can I find these older fonts and is it worth it to have them on the system. It seems that many people still use them. Thanks -- A.I. - is a three toed sloth! | ...!uunet!mnetor!maccs!dan -- Official scrabble players dictionary -- | dan@mcmaster.BITNET
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (04/17/88)
Here we have only circle10 and circlew10. The fonts themselves contain all the different sized circles. Am fonts are obsolete. The easiest way to convert is to change all references from "am" to "cm". There will be a couple of odd typefaces missing, but in general this will work. It sounds to me like your printer driver isn't downloading the TeX fonts and you are getting the native fonts on the printer, which have the ligatures in different positions. You didn't say what printer language the 3220 accepts. You might want to get a better dvi to ? driver. Incidentally, recent distributions of Unix TeX require that you bring up METAFONT to generate any extra sizes you need. You definitely need METAFONT for SliTeX, unless somebody else sends you the fonts. There is a mailing list for La/TeX discussion. Mail texhax-request@score.stanford.edu to join. Bitnet users should mail a message saying SUBSCRIBE TEX-L to the LISTSERVER at tamvm1.bitnet. Ken