evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (10/19/89)
Somewhere, someone has presented a good comparison of Tex and troff -
what tasks are best suited to one or another, how their printer support
compares, etc.
I also haven't yet been given a consistent explanation of what Metafont
is. Is it:
a) a tool which creates downloadable fonts, which can be used
independently of TeX?
b) a tool whick creates printer-specific bitmaps of an image to be
printed?
c) the way to teach TeX about new fonts, their sizes and spacing?
d) none of the above?
Thanks. Maybe TeX would be a good future topic at a meeting. Anyone know
enough about it to present a 1-hour tutorial?
--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan
Canada could have enjoyed: English government,French culture,American know-how;
Instead we ended up with: English know-how,French government,American culture.rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) (10/19/89)
e) All of the above. Evan, you weren't confused for nothing :-)
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/19/89)
In article <1989Oct19.035742.1893@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes: >I also haven't yet been given a consistent explanation of what Metafont >is. Is it: >a) a tool which creates downloadable fonts, which can be used > independently of TeX? >b) a tool whick creates printer-specific bitmaps of an image to be > printed? >c) the way to teach TeX about new fonts, their sizes and spacing? More or less all of the above. Its main job is to turn quasi-algorithmic descriptions of fonts into bitmaps in specific sizes. The resulting bitmap fonts are theoretically usable with anything, although mostly they get used with TeX. And font-metric information necessarily is generated at the same time. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
morgan@camtwh.UUCP (Morgan Jones) (10/20/89)
> Somewhere, someone has presented a good comparison of Tex and troff - > what tasks are best suited to one or another, how their printer support > compares, etc. > I also haven't yet been given a consistent explanation of what Metafont > is. Is it: > a) a tool which creates downloadable fonts, which can be used > independently of TeX? > b) a tool whick creates printer-specific bitmaps of an image to be > printed? > c) the way to teach TeX about new fonts, their sizes and spacing? > d) none of the above? > Thanks. Maybe TeX would be a good future topic at a meeting. Anyone know > enough about it to present a 1-hour tutorial? I believe that the answer is: e) all of the above. Morgan W. Jones (morgan@camtwh) Orama Incorporated, Toronto, Canada. (416) 369-5088
nik (10/21/89)
Yes, I'm interested in a tutorial on Tex, Troff, PostScript generators, etc etc. I'll actually *pay* to get this discussion to start at a significantly simple enough level!!!