Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell!pacbell.com!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!svin02!eba!wjw From: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: MS-DOS TeX'ing: dosTeX vs sbTeX - summary so far Keywords: EmTeX, Drivers, pk, pxl Message-ID: <580@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Date: 31 Aug 90 14:24:56 GMT References: <8221@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system) Reply-To: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 29 In article <8221@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes: >In article <7080001@acf4.NYU.EDU>, fanchiot@acf4.NYU.EDU (Sergio H. Fanchiotti) writes... >>Ps: Although I use Sbtex, the Emtex package IS very complete and has >>an excelent set of dvi drivers for previewing and printing. Also I > >The emTeX drivers have one great weakness: they use PXL files (or >at least the last release I looked at did). Arguments against PXL >files: they're big (PK files average around 17% the size of PXL >files. Maybe some of you have gobs of disk space to blow on this >sort of thing, but most micro people I know don't), they only >support 128 characters in a font (a big problem for the new >generations of fonts being created with ISO 8859 coding). Well I've got to turn you in on this one. Not only can it use PK-fonts, But it has something more nifty. You can have FLI-files( Font-Library ) This is a large file, which could hold all kinds of magnifications of fonts. The size is about the same size as the total of PK fonts used in the FLI-file, BUT the nice thing is that there's no more slack on the PK-files. And having lots of fonts this could certainly add up if you've got a 4Kb of 8Kb cluster on your disk. Further more I would like to admit that I'm a very pleased person with the package as is distributed. Regards Willem Jan Withagen. Eindhoven University of Technology DomainName: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl Digital Systems Group, Room EH 10.10 BITNET: ELEBWJ@HEITUE5.BITNET P.O. 513 Tel: +31-40-473401 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands