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From: smedley@udel.edu (Trevor Smedley)
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Subject: pslatex -- has anyone installed it?
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I ftp'ed the pslatex stuff from sun.soe.clarkson.edu and have spent the
last four hours trying to get things to work properly.  If anyone out
there ahs installed this successfully, I'd appreciate some help.  Here
is the situation:

What we have here is version 2.95 of latex, the "standard" PS fonts
(.tfm and .pdr files), and versions 2.16 and 3.5 of dvitps from the
TeXPS package.

At least part of the problem seems to be that we don't have the fonts
Symbol-Oblique, Times-Roman-SmallCaps and Times-Roman-Oblique, and the
pslatex stuff doesn't include .pl files to make .tfm files for all these.

Well, I managed to find .tfm files for these, and finally make
pslplain-t.tfm worked.

When I try to latex something (with virtex \&pslplain-t) it does ok on
the normal text, but as soon as it gets to anything in math mode, I get

! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.

Does anyone know what causes this?

To see if I could get anywhere, I commented out all the math stuff in my
test file, and tried again and now it seems that dvitps can't find all
the pdr files it needs.  There are none for Symbol-Oblique,
Times-Roman-SmallCaps and Times-Roman-Oblique, since I was just able to
get tfm files.  Is there any way to get around this.

I believe that if (when?) I am able to get a postscript file generated,
I have to stick the file makefonts.ps at the beginning of it somewhere,
to generate the derived fonts.  Does anyone know exactly how to go about
doing this?

I'm really stuck, and I shouldn't have wasted my whole day hacking on
this thing.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Trevor Smedley
smedley@udel.edu