jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (02/25/90)
I've been using TeX for some time, mostly to format exisiting
documentation. So I'm not a TeXpert nor a TeXnician.
Now I have the opportunity :-( to build TeX from scratch.
Well, playing with the TeX distribution surely reminds me to my hours
of playing Adventure (the original one): stumbling from directory to
directory to collect README files, looking for Makefiles, looking for
a place to start... It can really use a "make world" like X11.
After a number of hours (my time, CPU time about 10 minutes), I had
initex, virtex, inimf and virmf, and the undumped versions for tex and
latex. I also had the styles and tfm files in place, and added dvi2ps
(version 3.1). Now I can build dvi files and print them on a
PostScript printer.
What I have not solved yet is how to create the 'pk'-fonts. I know it
has something to do with MetaFont, but actually I got lost in the
README files.
If someone can tell me how it must be done, I would appreciate it.
Johan
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