joel@techunix.BITNET (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman) (05/30/90)
Last week I finally got and installed a copy of DOSTEX, which is certainly on the large size, but seems to work. But I've only had minimal success with their dvieps driver for the Epson. It won't even translate sample.dvi! Is there a better version available? Is DOSTEX the best TeX out? I don't really want to re-install a new version of TeX, but I will if there's something considerably better. Second: Is there a copy of MF for MS-DOS? I need something already compiled. How much space does it take up? Where would I get it? Considering it's (probably very large) size, I'd be willing to pay someone to send me 3.5" disks. Third: (this is the hard one) There's a patch to TeX to make it into TeX-XeT, a version of TeX which supports bi-directional typesetting (particularly, Hebrew). Has anyone ported THAT to MS-DOS? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please reply by e-mail. And no, I don't have ftp. :-( Thanks in advance. -Joel (joel@techunix.technion.ac.il -or- joel@techunix.BITNET) --
dmm0t@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (David M. Meyer) (06/04/90)
In article <9685@discus.technion.ac.il> joel%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman) writes: >Last week I finally got and installed a copy of DOSTEX, which is >certainly on the large size, but seems to work. But I've only had >minimal success with their dvieps driver for the Epson. It won't even >translate sample.dvi! Is there a better version available? I haven't tried DOSTEX, but I'm using emtex, available from terminator.cc.umich.edu under /msdos/text-mgmt/TeX/emtex. It works OK, and has a program to print to epson-fx style printers, which I haven't tried yet. >Second: Is there a copy of MF for MS-DOS? I need something already >compiled. How much space does it take up? Where would I get it? >Considering it's (probably very large) size, I'd be willing to pay >someone to send me 3.5" disks. Also on terminator. The MF program, along with a bunch of fonts, is also under /msdos/text-mgmt/TeX/emtex. emtex is large (~ 7 MB compressed on terminator); without ftp access it's kind of difficult to get. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - David M. Meyer Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - = dmm0t@virginia.edu University of Virginia = -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
naras@stat.fsu.edu (B. Narasimhan) (06/05/90)
In article <1990Jun4.135200.20593@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (David M. Meyer) writes: > >I haven't tried DOSTEX, but I'm using emtex, available from >terminator.cc.umich.edu under /msdos/text-mgmt/TeX/emtex. It >works OK, and has a program to print to epson-fx style printers, >which I haven't tried yet. > I have used the DVIFX program that comes with emTeX and it works fine. But you need all the fonts for the program and I got it from stuttgart by ftp. The last time I looked I did not see the complete set of fonts on terminator.cc.umich.edu. Eberhard Mattes now has an integrated DVIDOT program that works with a lot of dot-matrix printers. Again, you need the various fonts. In conclusion, I'd say that emTeX is a wonderful implementation. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- B. Narasimhan naras@stat.fsu.edu Dept. of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
aceverj@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage) (06/08/90)
In article <828@stat.fsu.edu> naras@stat.fsu.edu (B. Narasimhan) writes: >In article <1990Jun4.135200.20593@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dmm0t@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (David M. Meyer) writes: >> >>I haven't tried DOSTEX, but I'm using emtex, available from >>terminator.cc.umich.edu under /msdos/text-mgmt/TeX/emtex. It >>works OK, and has a program to print to epson-fx style printers, >>which I haven't tried yet. [....] >I have used the DVIFX program that comes with emTeX and it works >fine. [....] >In conclusion, I'd say that emTeX is a wonderful implementation. I absolutely second the motion.