mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) (01/25/91)
I am having great problems with PasTeX and, being a total novice when it
comes to TeX, have no idea what may be wrong. I have assigned TeX: to the
top of the directory tree, set the environment variables TEXINPUTS etc but
the example command in doc/short_reference (virtex &plain story.tex) dies
immediately with the incredibly helpful error message `fatal format file
error; I'm stymied`. Does anyone know which file this is refering to and
does it mean it couldn't find the file, the file is corrupted or what?
Also, does anyone know of any reasonable documentation for setting up and
using PasTeX?
Thanks
Michael
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I spilt spot remover on my dog and now he's gone! |_________|~~|_____| nick@uni-paderborn.de (Martin Koch) (01/28/91)
mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes: >I am having great problems with PasTeX and, being a total novice when it >comes to TeX, have no idea what may be wrong. I have assigned TeX: to the >top of the directory tree, set the environment variables TEXINPUTS etc but >the example command in doc/short_reference (virtex &plain story.tex) dies >immediately with the incredibly helpful error message `fatal format file >error; I'm stymied`. Does anyone know which file this is refering to and >does it mean it couldn't find the file, the file is corrupted or what? The Problem is, that the TeX.mem File in DVI-configs doesn't match to the .fmt File You are using. You have to recompile the Formatfile with initex. Or copy it from a friend, whose version is working. To work with initex you need at least 1.5MB Main Memory. You also need a good Book about TeX. To get the formatfile You need the Files: hyphen.tex plain.tex tex.mem no invoke initex with initex type \input plain.tex \dump this crates a formatfile named plain.fmt.Now You can use this fomatfile. To crate a LaTeX fmt-File, you need tex.mem lplain.tex lfonts.tex hyphen.tex You invoke initex again and you type: \input lplain.tex \dump. >Also, does anyone know of any reasonable documentation for setting up and >using PasTeX? If You can read German, Try TeX- eine Einfuehrung from N.Schwarz. otherwise try D.E. Knuth --- The TeX-Book (This is the Author of the Programm! >Thanks >Michael >-- > _ _ _ _ _ >Michael Gordon - mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk OR ee.ed.ac.uk | |_| |_| |__| |_| | > | . . . . . . | >I spilt spot remover on my dog and now he's gone! |_________|~~|_____| -- Bye ;-) //\ Martin Koch --- email to: nick@uni-paderborn.de //__\ //----\UGUP --- Amiga User Group Uni Paderborn \\// \miga --- You can't beat the feeling! Earth; planet "Mostly Harmless!" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Bye ;-) //\ Martin Koch --- email to: nick@uni-paderborn.de //__\ //----\UGUP --- Amiga User Group Uni Paderborn
djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) (01/29/91)
In article <1991Jan28.111708.19313@uni-paderborn.de> nick@uni-paderborn.de (Martin Koch) writes: >>Also, does anyone know of any reasonable documentation for setting up and >>using PasTeX? > >If You can read German, Try TeX- eine Einfuehrung from N.Schwarz. >otherwise try D.E. Knuth --- The TeX-Book (This is the Author of the Programm! TeX books are easy enough to find. However, the question is on PasTeX. I just set this up last night, and everything works great. However, English documentation is pretty scarce. Is there anyone who has translated the docs - especially the showdvi docs? (I could have a friend translate these long documents for me, but I'd rather keep the friend) A couple of questions. Does flip really save space in fonts, or just save the space that would have been used by directory entries? How does the speed compare to other PD TeX's? -- Darin Johnson djohnson@ucsd.edu - Political correctness is Turing undecidable.
GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) (01/30/91)
The version of PasTeX I assembled works fine: I can compile my text
and preview but I can't print it !!!!!! What I'm doing now is uploading
it to the main frame and print it out on our laser printer there.
Anyone out there who managed to print with PasTeX ?
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------------------------------------------------------------------------hessmann@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) (01/31/91)
In article <16096@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes: [...] >However, the question is on PasTeX. I just set this up last night, and >everything works great. However, English documentation is pretty scarce. >Is there anyone who has translated the docs - especially the showdvi docs? >(I could have a friend translate these long documents for me, but I'd rather >keep the friend) Yes, Thomas Tavoly has done this (thanks again!). I will put next week my last beta version of PasTeX to ab20... This will include: - TeX 3.1 (with improved speed and better configuration possibility) - ShowDVI (previewer, V1.07) - DVIprint (printer driver, V1.07) - flib (Font-Library-Manager V1.03) - SpecialHost (program to include IFF pictures in the text) - german docs (for all programs) - english docs (for all programs exept for virtex/initex) - newest macro files (plain.tex, lplain.tex, ...) >A couple of questions. Does flip really save space in fonts, or just save >the space that would have been used by directory entries? How does the >speed compare to other PD TeX's? Yes flib saves space for directory entries and because of the unused bytes in the last block of every file (average 256 bytes for every file). I don't have compared my TeX especially with other PD TeX's. But it is faster than an old version of Common-TeX. I have compiled it with LC 5.10a and -O option. And I have 5 critical procedures translated to assembler. Both, virtex and initex are pure, so that the startup time is a little bit faster. >Darin Johnson Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp
hessmann@hal.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) (01/31/91)
In article <91029.162347GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes: > >The version of PasTeX I assembled works fine: I can compile my text >and preview but I can't print it !!!!!! What I'm doing now is uploading >it to the main frame and print it out on our laser printer there. >Anyone out there who managed to print with PasTeX ? Yes, I can :-) What's your problem? Fonts, Memory, ... ? What printer do you have? Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp