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From: jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Announcing BibTeX V0.99 for the Atari-ST!!
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Date: 22 Sep 89 13:35:24 GMT
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In article <22405@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Jeff Long sez:
>I was thinking about uploading the zoo archive of the font files, but
>it is so large that it would cost too much for someone to d/l!
>
>Jeff...  do you think it would be possible to break the font files into
>several ZOO archives..?
> 
>That way users could download just the font files they needed...
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^a
Perhaps Bob isn't familiar with the organization of PK fonts for the Atari
.dvi drivers.  
They are all within one folder, with a separate folder for each font name
and mulitple entries within each font folder for the mag step sizes:
/fonts/cmr10/300pk
/fonts/cmr10/329pk
/fonts/cmr10/360pk
/fonts/cmbx10/300pk
/fonts/cmbx10/360pk  
etc....

Now for the big question---How am I to know which collection of fonts
a particlular user will need?  How many subsets do I try and make?  
What magsteps in which fonts?    Do you see the dilemna?  Perhaps if
someone wants to take a poll of which fonts are most needed by the
"average" user, then I could undertake this task.  As for my, I am using
the driver to print out 100 pages of Master's Thesis, and I use LOTS of
different fonts in LOTS of different sizes, so I really can't judge what
would be the "most common" fonts desired.  
   Thanks for you interest though.  I would suggest you try and get the
two font files dvifnts1.zoo and dvifnts2.zoo from the terminator archive
/atari/new directory if you have ftp access and save the compuserve
charges!!                     Jeff Long  (JKL)


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