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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: DOSTEX and total TeX neophyte...
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Date: 17 Jan 90 06:47:54 GMT
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In article <1173@polari.UUCP>,
tima@polari.UUCP (tim anderson) writes:
>I spent a couple weeks getting all of the DOSTEX stuff off of SIMTEL.
>Now, of course, it doesn't work... What girations do I have to go through
>to get it to work? I ran the LATEX.BAT file, and I seem to have a
>working version of LATEX. I edited the LFONT.TEX file to eliminate
>references to the many non-existant fonts. I think THAT part is working...
>Now, does the DVI2HERC and/or DVIEPS work at all? I assumed that
>DVIEPS would only access font files that are in the \tex\fonts\pk\240\
>directory, but it seems to be getting them from everywhere BUT there...
>
I had a similar problem, which I half solved by noting which
directories it was looking for, then creating directories with this
name, and copying the \240 contents into it.

I noticed that one of the files defines what actual fonts on your
system correspond to particular fonts / point sizes in your
document. I tried editing this for a while, but then gave up when I
found that on the paper I was writing at the time, TEX ran out of
memory anyway, and could not even produce a .DVI file.

If the same TEXpert could tell me how he / she got DOSTEX to run
(or, and maybe better, set up SBTEX with the LATEX macros and fonts
etc so that LATEX files were usable and printable on a DESKJET
printer (or LASERJET)), I'd be very, very grateful.

Richard Stanton

pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu