wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) (12/14/90)
Are there analogues of the postscript virtual fonts for TeX 3, but using the internal scalable fonts on the HP LJ III?
dhosek@linus.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (12/15/90)
In article <2787@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes: > Are there analogues of the postscript virtual fonts for > TeX 3, but using the internal scalable fonts on the > HP LJ III? Virtual fonts have nothing to do with PostScript (other than that that is the most common application among the net people with the advent of the version 5.x of Tom Rokicki's dvips). What the VF (some people prefer the terminology "Composite Font") technology does is allow one to have a TeX font that has no relation to any physical font anywhere. dvips' afm2tfm uses vf files to map the TeX character coding to the PostScript character coding so that the character code for, say, the acute accent will be in the same place in Adobe PostScript Times as it is in Computer Modern. Other possibilities are to do things like compose composite letters (a VF character description can contain any DVI commands) so that one can have, say, a character which is \'{a} but in a single character position (handy for those who would like to hyphenate words like Alcana (that last letter is an ISO 8859/1 acute-a)) or have a single character (as far as TeX is concerned) which is a whole LaTeX picture (a challenge to someone out there: write a WEB program which can take a single page DVI file and create a one character TeX virtual font out of it... just think, a simple and easy way of doing DVI file includes!). But to get back to your original question, what it seems you want to do is to have access to the HP LJ III internal fonts. There are a fair number of drivers with this feature available. Complete lists of drivers (or at least as complete as I've been able to verify the information) are available from ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.drivers.info] with laser printer drivers enumerated in drivers.laser and source information provided in drivers.sources. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique. ymir.claremont.edu will be inaccessible from January 4th through 16th while the building is being torn up.