Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!euler.claremont.edu!dhosek From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Message-ID: <1991Feb22.204058.1@euler.claremont.edu> Date: 23 Feb 91 04:40:58 GMT References: <1991Feb15.201318.1@freke.claremont.edu> <1991Feb22.101223.26686@news.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 52 In article <1991Feb22.101223.26686@news.arc.nasa.gov>, ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) writes: > Don Hosek mentioned a way of accessing letterforms coded by 8-bit {> characters, of the form: > > | \catcode`^^80=\active \def^^80{\c{C}} > > | Because of my contractee's regulations on intellectual property, > | I am not able to distribute this file trivial as it is. > > This approach is very similar to that provided with Textures 1.3. If anyone > wants it, Blue Sky Research may agree to send it to you. I'd post it here > myself, but it's too late to even phone them up right now to get a release ;-). > > Unfortunately, this approach does not repair the problem in that > hyphenation is effectively turned off in a word containing the \accent > primitive. Therefore one would hope that fonts with already-accented > letters be developed (PostScript is already there; VF could > effectively do this job, too), that people would generate \patterns > employing these already-accented letters (has anybody done this?), and > that some means would be agreed upon to facilitate keyboard entry. > The latter area is where code pages come into play. But let's not ignore > the other crucial tasks mentioned above. Actually, no. The code page support that I've seen simply causes TeX's mouth to interpret, say x'84 as \"{u}. It does nothing for the accented character "problem". > Also, support for VF seems to be making a very slow appearance in the > commercial DVI translators. Please correct me if I am wrong, but it > seems ArborText is presently the only one out there with VF support > in their drivers. Others include Tom Rokicki's DVI drivers (dvips for many systems and all the Amiga drivers and the emTeX drivers. I believe also those drivers being developed by TeXsys have VF support as well. THere are also at least two DVI-DVI translators (Peter Breitenlohner's DVICOPY and Wayne Sullivan's DVIvfDVI) which can convert a VF-referencing DVI file to a non-VF-referencing DVI file. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.