Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!rose!sekoppenhoef
From: sekoppenhoef@rose.waterloo.edu (Shawn E. Koppenhoefer)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOSTEX and total TeX neophyte...
Keywords: Neophyte, ignoramous, dosTeX, SBTeX, fonts, dvieps??!
Message-ID: <19880@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 15:04:55 GMT
References: <1173@polari.UUCP>
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In article <1173@polari.UUCP> tima@polari writes:
>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\

I've apparently succeeded in setting up SBTeX2.9 on my system (a really
old and ssslloooowww XT) and it runs fine.I've set up some environment variables
so that it knows where my font files and stuff are... specifically, I have:
			SBFMT=g:\formats
			TEXINPUTS=g:\inputs
			FONTTFMS=g:\fonttfms
			SBFTMB=g:\swap
For a previewer I am using CDVIH (version1.2) for now... it is very fast but
it has the big limitation of only being able to use it's own internal 16 fonts.
I got DVI2HERC working but it was *REALLY* slow and DVIEPS --never-- worked for
me (it got maybe 3 lines into a document before running out of memory).
I would *really* like something that could print .dvi files on my printer
(it would be really nice if it used 24-pin mode but....) 
but at least the formatting and previewer work.		Hope some of this helps.


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