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From: garyk@SOPHIE.MSCS.MU.EDU (Gary Krenz)
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Subject: Re: Enough
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Date: 10 Mar 91 07:40:50 GMT
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In article <9103060017.AA09130@maccs.DCSS.McMaster.CA> you write:
>My apologies for taking advantage of your posting on another subject, but
>I thought that you might be able to help me with what is probably a trivial
>problem (but I am a LaTeX neophyte..).  I have started to use emTeX because
>I was having memory problems with my ArborTeX installation.  But since I want
>to use the fonts msxm and msym, I haven't been able to use the emTeX HP
>printer driver.  This screws things up since I guess the emTeX compiler calls
>for certain fonts which are not in the ArborTeX package.   Do you know how
>to get the emTeX HPLJ driver to use msxm and msym?   I'm of course using the
>fli font files that come with emTeX.  Sorry to bother you, but I would
>greatly appreciate some advice if you know the answer....    Carl Riehm.
 
  First, as I understand, msxm and msym as the old AMS symbol fonts.  But
then I'm also a TeX neophyte.  I'm not using msxm or msym and don't plan
on using them, so this might not be much help to you but ...
 
  Yesterday I was setting up an AT&T 6300 to do AMSTeX (version 2.0) via
emTeX.  I had no difficulty setting it up using the lj fonts for screen
previewing and have printed amsguide.tex via emTeX and dvips to an
AppleLaser Writer (postscript).  I also plan on trying AMSLaTeX if I
don't run out of disk space on this particular machine.  (... emTeX and
dvips are *great* and is *so* easy to install, I just wish I had room on
a C: drive once, it would be even easier, sigh!).
 
  I did have to move some of 300dpi pk files from a SPARC to a pixel.lj
subdirectory on the AT&T.  I plan to build font families for the new
AMSfonts (version 2) read that as Real Soon Now :-)
When I TeXed the userdoc for the AMSfonts, I found I was short the
wncyr* pk fonts as well as some others.  Since I spent a small part of
my Christmas generating 85dpi screen fonts (X *.ff and *.fb fonts for
xtex on a Sun SPARC 1+) I wasn't excited to use mf again.  I just
went to e-math.ams.com to pick up the missing fonts.
 
  Carl, if you are interested in what I've done so far, please E-MAIL me at:
                  garyk@sophie.mscs.mu.edu
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