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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: QUESTION: What is 'dvi' format?
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.145000.15159@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 31 Oct 90 14:50:00 GMT
References: <9010301118.AA27501@lilac.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In <9010301118.AA27501@lilac.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:

>In the cases I have investigated, one was required to track down and
>to try to figure out how to install TeX fonts before being able to use
>dvi to postscript type programs.  Does anyone know of a) a way around that
>or b) a package which describes how to do that?  I mean, one may have a LOT
>of postscript fonts around - it seems silly to have to have a bunch of
>fonts around that you cannot use other than in one little package.

All dvi*ps programs I know allow use of inbuilt PostScript fonts
rather than Computer Modern.
In particular dvips (available by anonymous FTP from labrea.stanford.edu)
has this facility, and describes in the manual how to use it
(Section 5: Using PostScript Fonts).

The inbuilt Symbol font is inadequate for mathematics,
so people usually use the cmsy* fonts for this;
there is no problem in mixing PostScript and CM fonts.

-- 

Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie