Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!chalmers.se!cs.chalmers.se!jeffrey From: jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Using TeX for the UNIX man pages Message-ID: <4344@undis.cs.chalmers.se> Date: 7 Dec 90 11:53:15 GMT References: <657@silence.princeton.nj.us> <1990Dec4.130922.6961@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1990Dec4.133655.15047@noao.edu> <1990Dec4.211419.2599@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden Lines: 26 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: [...] >Naturally this as always leaves the problem of getting TeX to print >decently (dvidoc does not quite get it right) on any low resolution >device. I may well look into this eventually; all we need is to modify >TeX so that it does all positioning in units that are a multiple of its >fundamental resolution, just like ditroff does already. No thanks! TeX has got to be device-independent, if you're planning to use if for serious 2000dpi typesetting, with proofs at 300dpi and previews as low as 72dpi. TeX does a pretty decent job of placing text where you want it, it's the device drivers that often can't cope. The TeX divice driver standards committee should (hopefully) sort that out, although the number of current drivers that would get the seal of approval is probably horribly small... >Piercarlo Grandi Cheers, Alan. -- Alan Jeffrey Tel: +46 31 72 10 98 jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se Department of Computer Sciences, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden