Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: @utrcgw.utc.com:mark@ardnt1 (mark) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: RE: PasTeX question Message-ID: <37947@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 3 Dec 90 14:52:56 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 67 Note: I am sending this reply for someone here at work that doesn't read this group. He is the TeX "expert", not me. Direct any further questions to Ray. I'll forward messages to him if necessary. --Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Mark Stucky | Email: | | United Technologies Research Center | mark%ardnt1@utrcgw.utc.com | | East Hartford, CT. | mast%utrc@utrcgw.utc.com | | My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ on 30 Nov 90 12:24:00 GMT, vesty <@utrcgw.utc.com:vesty@inmet.inmet.COM> said: vesty> I recently ftp'ed PasTeX and PasTeXextras off of new-xanth. This vesty> system looks great. The only problem is that the documnetation is in vesty> German except for a small short reference manual. vesty> I've been able to figure out how to use everything except DVIprint. vesty> (It would be nice to print out output of a document :> ). vesty> This is what happens: vesty> DVIprint -d 2 file.dvi ( -d 2 | 3 is for hp deskjet ) vesty> causes a memory access guru. Any suggestions? vesty> Also, what is initex used for? vesty> Thanks, vesty> Matt on Mon, 3 Dec 90 09:29 EDT, "William R(ay) Brohinsky" said: Ray> a) PASTEX docs: The maker has promised us english documentation, Ray> waiting on recovery of a hard disk crash (expensive) and school Ray> responsibilities. Be patient. Ray> b) GURU: I can offer no help here: my machine still gurus from the Ray> T-card/T-disk. sorry. Ray> c) initex is the program that builds the .fmt files used to make Ray> TeX act as plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-tex, etc. If you have the TeXbook, Ray> it is explained, how to use it, and that explanation should hold Ray> for any properly written, properly installed initex. If you don't Ray> have TeXbook, get it! even at its most abstruse, it is more helpful Ray> than nothing, and this is the only mechanism by which the Ray> producers of this code get any recompense at all. Ray> [NOTE: neither D. Knuth nor L. Lamport have ever expressed this Ray> simple truth, but it is true, and it is morally and ethically Ray> proper. After all, Imagine TeX with copyrights and copy protection Ray> (YUCCHHHH!)] Ray> Also (not instead of, unless you are POOR and don't want to use all of Ray> TeX's capability) consider getting `TeX for the impatient'. I can't Ray> reccommend it highly enough! Ray> raybro