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From: hannes@complx.UUCP (Johannes Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX -- Help requested on Columns, Fonts
Keywords: Columns, Fonts, PC, HP, Laserjet, PCL
Message-ID: <983@complx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 22:32:33 GMT
Reply-To: hannes@complx.sub.org (Johannes Kiehl)
Organization: machine!Computerzeitung, Stuttgart
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Can anybody help me on one of the following 3 questions?
I'm using (or going to) TeX on an IBM compatible/under MSDOS.
1. Does anybody know of TeX macros that let you work with
multiple (like 4 or more) columns and still automatically
flow the text into columns and pages? How about a ,,newspaper
package`` that could handle tabloid page sizes and multi
column articles set on the page like independently
administered boxes?
2. Beat me, if you feel like it, TeX-Wizards. I know you're
almost infinitely happy about the Computer Modern Fonts
designed by Knuth an his fellow TeXnicians. But I'd prefer
an aristocrately bent Garamond light and a fat, self-content
Futura bold. Where can I get cheap additional Typefaces that
work with a Laserjet? I wouldn't mind defining the Metafonts
myself, if they didn't exist yet (and if the Metafont-Editor
could be learnt in a day or two...)
3. Yeah, the Laserjet. I know there are several DVI-To-Laser
drivers around, though in my TeX-Package there weren't any.
Do they send a huge bitmapped page to the printer? This could
get me into severe memory troubles. Or are there drivers that
use the PCL language or at least upload the fonts first and
then transmit Ascii-data?
Thanks for any replies or follow-ups!