grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (08/07/90)
Archive-name: bdf-fonts/06-Aug-90 Original-posting-by: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Original-subject: Re: xtex HELP!!! Archive-site: foobar.colorado.edu [128.138.243.105] Archive-directory: /pub/SeeTeX Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) There is a collection of 85DPI BDF fonts available on my workstation, foobar.colorado.edu, in ~ftp/pub/SeeTeX/Bdf-85dpi or somesuch. I would be more than happy to relocate them, e.g., to labrea or whereever, it's just that I don't want wish to risk offending the owners of those machines. The current installation guide describes where to pick up the fonts & how to build your own. Eventually, xtex will just generate them on the fly. All the parts are there, I just haven't had time to get everything bullet proofed; there are many variables, e.g., ``do you have metafont'' and the like. The last Big Change was upgrading to the current 'mxtex' library (called 'libtex' in SeeTeX stuff). The next Big Feature is being worked on by someone in Canada, and will involve using GhostScript 1.4 to render postscript figures, producing similar results to that of running xtex on Display Postscript systems like the DEC windows and IBM AIX windows. Because changes like this occur with some frequency, I don't package the fonts with the software to allow people to pick up the software and not lug all that extra baggage around.