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.
--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
"The dancing raisins are breaking up. One of them is dating Yoko Ono"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.