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From: mario@madarch.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko)
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Subject: Re: TeX and 1270 dpi Linotronic output
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Date: 5 Jun 90 17:16:03 GMT
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In article <1990May26.040231.22931@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>,
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
> We have a Linotronic typesetter at University of Toronto and I would
> be interested in hearing about user experiences with TeX and high 
> resolution output devices.
> 
> In particular jobs fail regularly with a VM Error (out of memory) and
> I am interested in hearing of others with similar experience and of ANY
> possible solutions to this. 

We use a Linotronic with a modified version of LaTeX, which I call
PS-LaTeX (it uses PostScript fonts where possible).  It's 99.9% LaTeX
compatible.  The use of PostScript fonts circumvents most of the VM
problems (we only have trouble with LaTeX picture mode, which means we
have to do those pages separately).  Otherwise, works fine.  For the
proof, look at these two books, published in the last 6 months:

  C.B.Jones, Systematic Software Development using VDM, 2nd ed,
  Prentice-Hall International, and
  C.B.Jones and R.C.F.Shaw, eds, Case Studies in Systematic Software
  Development, Prentice-Hall International

pslatex can be got from the Clarkson server (sun.soe.clarkson.edu).

Mario Wolczko

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