[comp.text.tex] DVI-Driver for HP LaserJet+

space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau) (09/22/90)

While I can hear you screaming "Oh no! Not another guy searching for a DVI
driver for the Laserjet Plus!", I haven't been able to get the information
I am needing from the posts in comp.text.tex of the last 30 days, so there.:-)

I am using TeX 3.0, MF 2.0 and the Beebe DVIJEP V2.07 on a IBM /6000 running
AIX 3.1, which behaves a lot like 4.3 BSD. While I have not encountered any
problems with this combination as long as I am using English texts, the
driver does not work with German umlauts. It simply ignores the \" command
and if I use \ss for German eszet, the driver switches the LJ+ back into its
own builtin font.

Now, while I am not a TeX and especially not a Metafont wizard, even I have
heard that with MF 2.0 there exist "virtual fonts". My question, therefore,
is: Could it be that V2.07 of DVIJEP does not support pk fonts generated by
MF 2.0? If so, is there a newer version which does? If so, where can I get
it? (FTP addresses please with numbers, since our /etc/hosts file is a joke.)

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windley@cs.uidaho.edu (Phil Windley) (09/25/90)

As long as we're on the subject.  I'm using dvi2lj (Zaid).  It has the
annoying habit of sending \special{xxx} to the shell.  THis doesn't work
very well with eepic stuff.  Is there a DVI driver for the laserjet that
handles the specials used by EEPIC?

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