mathur@maui.cs.ucla.edu (mathur sharad) (06/08/90)
First of all thanks to all the people who responded to my post about getting Latex on PC. I finally decided to get emtex from terminator.cc.umich.edu and am very happy with the whole package. I however have a couple of questions : 1) The package includes Pictex. However there is no documentation for it - it says that a users manual (English) can be got from Tex Users Group. Can I get it by ftp from anyplace ?? If not - can someone tell me what this is ?? Is it some sort of figure drawing support ?? 2) The package also includes a figure drawing program called Texcad. All documentation / error messages for this seem to be in German - which doesnt help me too much. Is there any English version ?? If not - is there any standard figure drwing program for DOS/OS2 which produces latex figures ?? 3) I am kindof confused by the fonts. As far as I can make out the only fonts supplies with it are 300dpi resolution. The screen previewer also seems to use these. How can a screen display use 300dpi fonts ?? I thought standard vga/ega screens are much lower resolution. The previewer works pretty well - but as you scale it down the font deteriorates pretty badly. In the documentation he says that the best way to get more of a page on screen is to reduce the resolution (provided I have the fonts). If this is true then what size fonts should I be looking for ?? He also seems to have the fonts in several different magnifications (ranging from a 1000 upwards). What is this magnification ?? Basically if someone could explain some basics about how fonts work ... (Or even give me a pointer to some book/document). 4) I need to get dvips. Most people have recommended dvips at labrea - but I couldnt make out which one was for DOS. Is there any dvips for OS2 ?? Also - do I need to get any more fonts for dvips ?? Or can it make do with the font libraries supplied with emtex ?? Thanks a lot again for all the help - I really appreciate it. I was quite impressed with emtex basically - even a novice like me could install it in a couple of hours !! - Sharad - mathur@cs.ucla.edu
kevind@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Kevin Dunphy) (06/09/90)
In article <36081@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> mathur@maui.cs.ucla.edu (mathur sharad) writes: >1) The package includes Pictex. However there is no documentation for it - it >says that a users manual (English) can be got from Tex Users Group. Can I get >it by ftp from anyplace ?? If not - can someone tell me what this is ?? Is it >some sort of figure drawing support ?? > >- Sharad >- mathur@cs.ucla.edu Check out the Frequently Asked Questions list, which appeared a few articles ahead of yours. There is an e-mail address and a US-Snail Mail address for the TeX Users Group, along with a lot of other interesting answers. Have Fun! -- Kevin J. Dunphy kevind@shumv1.ncsu.edu