Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!per2!dag
From: dag@per2.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: dvihp.ttp problems
Keywords: dvist3_3.arc, dvihp, font files, output
Message-ID: <864@per2.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 14:36:28 GMT
Organization: Persoft Inc., Madison, WI
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I recently started trying to use dvihp from the dvist 3.3 posting
to comp.binaries.atari.st, and have been having no end of trouble
with it.  One of the problems I've encountered is that it seems
to lose track of what font it's supposed to be getting characters
out of.  I tried running a font table (as produced by testfont.tex)
for cmr10 out to the laser printer with dvihp.  It used the correct
font for some of the time, the wrong font elsewhere.  Some characters
were lost completely.

I guessed that this might be caused by the fact that most of the
fonts I had in my \fonts directories were for use with dvist.ttp
and dvieps.ttp, so I used MetaFont to create a set of pk files in
another directory.  I have 300pk and 201pk files for each of the
standard TeX fonts in that directory tree (on a different partition
from the dvieps.ttp set), and have set up my "dvist.rc" file to
contain the line
	f:\fonts
yet when I run dvihp, I get the error message (from memory here)
	cannot open |f:\fonts\cmr10\201pk'
I assume the vertical bar character is a typo in the error message
in the program, as nothing I do can get rid of it, but the file
f:\fonts\cmr10\201pk does exists.

Does anybody know if this is definitly a problem with dvihp?  Has anyone
used it extensively on the ST?  What is your directory configuration.
Also, what magnifications should I generate (ie, what ???pk files should
I have) for each font for use with dvihp.ttp?

Thanks in advance for any advice that I might receive.
							Daniel A. Glasser
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