Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!mattes From: mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eberhard Mattes) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: emTeX .DVI driver quirks?! Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 90 13:33:30 GMT References: <90280.051217DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu> <839@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 21 In-reply-to: wjw@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl's message of 8 Oct 90 10:19:19 GMT DVB>Hi all! I've got a couple questions regarding the DVI drivers supplied with DVB>emTeX. 1st, has anyone else noticed that the drivers conduct a case sensitive DVB>search for fonts? (ie, \font\thefont\CMBX10 is reported to be not found) DVBYes, I did! DVB>Should this be considered a bug given that MS-DOS does not have a case DVB>sensitive file system? I have not yet experimented with font names greater DVB>than 8 characters, but it might be interesting. wjw>EmTeX does have a 'problem' with font names longer then 8 chars: wjw>like circlew10. Here the last '0' get left out, but it does end up in the wjw>packed li. I've not yet come across any problems with this, so my guess wjw>is the Ebenhart Mattes is aware op possible problems in this field. Font names are case-sensitive only in font *libraries*, not in font *files*. Font names are truncated to 8 characters when using font files or the old font library format (dvidrv 1.4c or older; see fontlib.doc). Font names are *not* truncated in new font libraries (dvidrv 1.4d or later). -- Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)