dberry@SEI.CMU.EDU (12/13/90)
Archive-name: tex/metafont/mf2ps/1990-12-12 Archive: shemp.cs.ucla.edu:/pub/mf2ps.tar.Z [131.179.128.34] Original-posting-by: dberry@SEI.CMU.EDU Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) This concerns the posting of mf2ps at shemp.cs.ucla.edu 1. It has come to my attention that our assumption that the MFlib that we had was the current standard is NOT true. The problem is that I am sitting here in Pittsburgh and cannot get to the machine in Israel with the original version. I will be back there in a week and a half (23 December) and will be back to Pittsburgh, where I can easily rebuild this archive only by 1 February 1991. If someone has the correct mflib.a from mf84 and would inform me where I can snarf it from, I will attempt to build the mf2ps here and if that works I will post it here. I am sorry to cause this inconvenience; this is a problem living in a place that does not quite get everything up to date and from which telnet and ftp are expensive propositions. 2. there were some binary files in there that caused problems to shar So I have changed the posting to tar.Z format. So the current posting mesage is now: mf2ps is now available for anonymous ftp This is the program described in the paper S. Yanai, D.M. Berry, "Environment for Translating METAFONT to PostScript", _TUGboat_ 11:4, 525-541, 1990 mf2ps was obtained by splitting the Sun mf84 METAFONT program into a front-end and a back-end at precisely the point that the envelope of a character is determined. This envelope is then output as a PostScript outline program. The version posted is for the sun as it uses suntools to build an interactive display. I suspect that our changes to the mf84 routines can be grafted into any machine's version of mf84 to get a version of mf2ps for that machine. It is available in compressed shar format for anonymous ftp from shemp.cs.ucla.edu (131.179.128.34) in file pub/mf2ps.tar.Z Thus uncompressing it yields something to be de-tar-red Enjoy Dan