[comp.text.tex] dvi font info needed

gregorio@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joseph C. Gregorio) (01/26/91)

I need help finding information on the structure of dvi files. What I would
really like to do is write a program that looked into a .dvi file
and produced a list of pk files that would be needed to print
the file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

                                       thanks,
                                         -joe

eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (01/26/91)

gregorio@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joseph C. Gregorio) writes:

>I need help finding information on the structure of dvi files. What I would

The whole definition is in 'TeX: the Program', part B of
Knuth's Computers and Typesetting series.

Victor.

gregorio@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joseph C. Gregorio) (01/28/91)

In article <1991Jan25.233032.6132@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>gregorio@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joseph C. Gregorio) writes:
>
>>I need help finding information on the structure of dvi files. What I would
>
>The whole definition is in 'TeX: the Program', part B of
>Knuth's Computers and Typesetting series.
>
>Victor.

    Thanks to all the people that responded to my plea for help. I was
successful and now have a program that will list all the fonts and 
sizes of fonts used in a dvi file. I will email the C source
if anyone is interested.
                                   Thanks again,
                                      -joe

spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (01/28/91)

In article <1991Jan25.233032.6132@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:


   >I need help finding information on the structure of dvi files. What I would

   The whole definition is in 'TeX: the Program', part B of
   Knuth's Computers and Typesetting series.

Its also implemented in the dvitype program, which the questioner
presumably has the source of?

I find dvitty a good program for hacking examples from, as it so
simple

sebastian

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