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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Metafont
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Date: 14 Jun 89 19:03:06 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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|1)  Does anyone know of a PD version of Metafont that is available by FTP?

I believe several sites offer the complete TeX distribution. See
comp.archives or somewhere like that.

|2)  Does anyone know of a *complete* set of .pk fonts that can be used with
|    the Beebe's drivers and the dvi2herc dvi previewer that comes with
|    DosTex. (The fonts included from Simtel20 are inadequate)

Problem is nobody has been able to agree on what is a complete set.
In terms of the 16 fonts mentioned in the TeX book and the fonts
in lfonts.tex, yes, but then what magnifications? Nonetheless
I think the public distributions have an adequate set.

|All I want to do is be able to preview and print dvi files generated by LaTeX
|on a PC with a Hercules display and a Panasonic 24 pin dot matrix printer,
|respectively, while at the same time making efficient use of my 32 meg HD.

Ah, perhaps you want a minimal set rather than a complete set, then.

|3)  Are the Beebe drivers the only drivers available to print dvi files?

No, there are plethora of other drivers available, some free, some not.
Always mention what OS you want a driver to run on and what output device.

|4)  Why don't previewers and printer drivers use TFM fonts so that TeX,
|    the previewer and printer could use the same single set of fonts?

Tfm files are just metric files. They don't contain the character shapes,
just the scalable dimensions for that face.

|5)  Is there a version of CDVI that uses more than the 12 standard TeX fonts?

Apparently there is a 2.0 from the author but this you have pay for.