tna37@isuvax.iastate.edu (06/13/91)
Hello I am using ShowDVI by Georg Hessmann (I think). I would like to add fonts to the existing fonts given with the program. I have access to TeX for Unix and am wondering if I could use the fonts with ShowDVI. Kyle Sterling Internet: TNA37@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU
tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (06/13/91)
tna37@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: >the existing fonts given with the program. I have access to TeX for Unix and >am wondering if I could use the fonts with ShowDVI. The .pk fonts should be the same on any system. You will need to name them consistent with what ShowDVI is looking for; see the ShowDVI docs. You will need them in the right sizes, too. Our local TeX-on-Unix system didn't have them small enough for the previewer, so I set to work with metafont and generated a set for 100dpi base size, in magstep 0, .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3 and 4. I have one left to do: 5. I might also do 83 and 91 sizes. This is the complete set of standard CM fonts for TeX, but does not include (yet) the LaTeX fonts. I'd be willing to send these to folk who want them, if the volume doesn't get too great. It would have to be on a set of disks. I don't want to send that volume of email out from here. Contact me if interested. (But those with a faster computer than a stock A1000 probably don't have to wait nearly a day for a new set of fonts to pop out of MetaFont ;-) Tom Bruhns tomb@hplsla.hp.com
dhagen@dsuvax.uucp (Dana Hagen) (06/18/91)
In article <1991Jun13.062027.16181@news.iastate.edu>, tna37@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > Hello > > I am using ShowDVI by Georg Hessmann (I think). I would like to add fonts to > the existing fonts given with the program. I have access to TeX for Unix and > am wondering if I could use the fonts with ShowDVI. > > Kyle Sterling > > Internet: TNA37@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU I really don't think so.. Maybe TeX for Amiga 'bagger
dingebre@imp.es.com (David Ingebretsen) (06/20/91)
In article <1991Jun18.064709.9915@dsuvax.uucp>, dhagen@dsuvax.uucp (Dana Hagen) writes: > In article <1991Jun13.062027.16181@news.iastate.edu>, tna37@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > > Hello > > > > I am using ShowDVI by Georg Hessmann (I think). I would like to add fonts to > > the existing fonts given with the program. I have access to TeX for Unix and > > am wondering if I could use the fonts with ShowDVI. > > > > Kyle Sterling > > > > Internet: TNA37@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU > > I really don't think so.. Maybe TeX for Amiga > > > 'bagger The *.pk* bitmapped fonts are identicle on any system. The problem is getting them in the correct size. The ShowDVI likes the smaller fonts for full page viewing, like cmr10.pk91 for a 91 dpi roman font. If you can find font families starting at about 43 dpi and going up to maybe 180 dpi, at various magsteps 0, .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and maybe 7 you will be set. I have found that most UNIX installations have fonts families starting at 120 and 300 dpi. There is an anonymous ftp site at passau.de, (Georg Hessman's home) that has all the fonts you could ever want. There is a comprehensive set for the previewer, 120dpi asymetric, 180dpi, and 360 dpi fonts. The ftp address is: 132.231.1.10 This is in germany and the files are large, so plan to get them in several tries. The other option is to generate your own using metafont either on your Amiga, really slow without an accelerator, or on your UNIX system. Both are available and it isn't that terrible to use, just tedious. David David Ingebretsen Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation 600 Komas Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84108 (801) 582-5847 x3758 dingebre@es.com