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From: gustav@arp.uucp (Zdzislaw Meglicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: xtex HELP!!!
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.235645.17022@arp.uucp>
Date: 2 Aug 90 23:56:45 GMT
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From article <KALT.90Jul31153856@boron.nmsu.edu>, by kalt@nmsu.edu (Kerry Alt):
> 
> Hope this is to the correct group....
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in building xtex to preview dvi files under
> X11R4??  I've tried to decipher the method of building the 85dpi fonts
> for xtex to use, but to no avail.  The README's seem to indicate that
> the built fonts are available at expo, but they are not. Any help, or
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I have built xtex together with nearly all the fonts I needed and
it now works without glitches on my system. I would like to suggest that
there should be a collection of .85gf fonts available, perhaps not from
expo - rather from labrea for people who need this kind of stuff for
previewers. Eventually the .bdf fonts ought to be distributed together
with xtex. 
   The way to make them is as follows. You must have a working MetaFont
installed on your system. Once you have that, edit the file plain.mf
in your ~/lib/mf/macros. You should find there an entry defining the lowres
or localfont mode. Underneath that entry add the following:

mode_def sun =
   proofing:=0;
   fontmaking:=1;
   tracingtitles:=0;
   pixels_per_inch:=85;
   blacker:=.35;
   fillin:=.1;
   o_correction:=.3;
   enddef;

Now invoke the inimf and issue the command \dump. This will create the
file mf.base which you should put in the directory ~/lib/mf/bases. 
All this you do entirely for your own convenience.  You can also use 
plain mf as is and read the above commands from a file.
   Once you've done all that you are ready to create the .85gf fonts. To do
that run the following script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# make the gf fonts
#
mf '\mode=sun;mag=1095/1000;batchmode;input cmb10'
mf '\mode=sun;mag=1000/1000;batchmode;input cmbsy10'
mf '\mode=sun;mag=1095/1000;batchmode;input cmbsy10'

                            ...

and so on. You can get the list of fonts and magnifications (the "mag" entry)
from one of the files in the xtex sources. I just wrote a simple script
which converted that list to the commands shown above. 
   Once you have created your .85gf fonts do:

#!/bin/sh
#
# clean up
#
rm -f *.log *.tfm
#
# make the bdf fonts
#
for i in *gf
do
   mftobdf -dpi 85 $i
done
#
# make the snf fonts
#
for i in *bdf
do
   font=`echo $i | sed 's/\.bdf//'`
   bdftosnf $font.bdf > $fonts.snf
done

Note that the .snf fonts are CPU dependent. However, the .bdf fonts
are portable. You can get both the .85gf and the .bdf fonts from my
systems (arp.anu.oz.au, inet: 130.56.4.98) via anonymous ftp. Go to 
/pub/xtex/fonts. (But first check if you can get them from somewhere 
in your part of the world!)

	Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.oz.au
	Automated Reasoning Project, RSSS,
	   and Plasma Theory Group, RSPhysS,
	The Australian National University,
	G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, Australia,

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