[comp.text.tex] Some TeX requests and questions

evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (02/05/91)

I'm posting this locally in the hopes that the expertise exists here to
help with a few requests. I'm aware of American archive servers but
prefer not to tie up the long distance lines if I can possibly help it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

1) I'm new to Postscript (just bought a used PacificPage cart for $225)
   and would like to find a local source of Tomas Rokicki's dvips 5.4. It
   was released for ftp access (from Stanford) in November.

   Does dvips use on-disk .pk (or .gf) files in addition to the in-printer
   fonts?

2) Any other pointers to useful Postscript utilities or guides is
   appreciated.

3) I'm also new to X. Does anyone have a recent copy of xfig, transfig,
   xtex or xdvi?

4) Does anyone have, or know anything about, "Jacques Goldman's Hebrew
   fonts"?

5) One LaTeX question: 
   Can one change the default font *family* without having to explicitly
   redefine every possible individual font? Let's say I want to use
   Helvetica (either the Postscript, or Metafont's "cmss*") as my main
   font for everything. I've made up a small macro file with
   definitions, but it seems that every time I switch into a font I
   haven't used before (say, \large\bf) it falls back on the cmr stuff.

   What would I add to an sty file to read in a replacement for
   lfonts.tex? Or is there a better way to do this?

Again, thanks for any help.

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xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (02/07/91)

In article <27AECC6D.62D@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
* 1) I'm new to Postscript (just bought a used PacificPage cart for $225)
*    and would like to find a local source of Tomas Rokicki's dvips 5.4. It
*    was released for ftp access (from Stanford) in November.
* 
*    Does dvips use on-disk .pk (or .gf) files in addition to the in-printer
*    fonts?
* 
I read from gnu.ghostscript.bug that the new version which will be released
in April will have HP laser jet driver. So I think one can save the $225
or more. Is this a misinterpretation? 

The dvips I ftp'ed uses emTeX's font library. In addition to that, it has
postscript fonts [*.vf].

* 2) Any other pointers to useful Postscript utilities or guides is
*    appreciated.

Ghostscript 2.1 from prep.ai.mit.edu is a good enough postscript previwer.
There is a msdos excutable and it works with VGA/EGA. All the souce codes
are given with distribution.

I am looking forward to GS 2.2 which will support HPLJ.  With
emTeX
dvips54
ghostscript
I do think I have built an complete enviorment for TeX on msdos.