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From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann)
Subject: Re: TeX Printing
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In article <1991Apr4.114338.29846@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
|u3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) writes:
|
|> G'day,
|
|> In comp.sys.amiga.applications
|> Steven D. Litvinchouk (sdl@lyra.mitre.org ) writes:
| 
[...]
|>> I have PasTeX myself.  If your version of TeX is similar, then you
|>> [...]
|>> in various magnifications.)  You can try ftp'ing the bitmapped fonts
|>> from labrea.stanford.edu; or making your own with MetaFont.
|
|> I'm looking into the ftp'ing the fonts I'll need but I'm hoping some
|> reader out there can give some tips on "using" PasTeX's CALLMF
|> feature. If you have Arexx and set the CALLMF environment variable
|> then a script gets called to tell you what parameters you should call
|> the MetaFont program with to build the required fonts.
|
|> Well...I've RTFM'ed (I think EnglishDoc.dvi was the appropriate doc)
|> but I guess I'm just that extra little bit thick in that I don't see
|> what command (in detail) I should give to MetaFont to build what I'd
|> need.
|
|> The nicest solution would be to modify the callmf.rexx Arexx script,
|> so that it would call MetaFont to make the font ...

Yes :) , I will do it. The next version (available in about 2 month)
will have a working version of this script.

I will make an environment, so that everyone can generate the missing
fonts via Metafont (from Stefan Becker) without needing any experience
with this program.

|Last things first; creating a whole rasterized metafont in a nice
|selection of sizes can take literal days; I ran mine overnight to get
|just a few sets of fonts built. You _really_, _really_ don't won't this
|overhead in your printing loop, which is why TeX/Metafont users have
|megabytes of already rasterized fonts online and ready to use. Metafont
|makes lovely fonts, but it makes a snail look turbocharged.
						:-))

Yes, but creating one font once is not so bad.
If you have the most commonly used fonts on hard disk and would like to print
a document which uses an unusual font I think it's easier if the program
generates the missing font. The next time you want print the text, the
font would be found and no time is lost.

|Since I luckily don't have your implementation, I get to wave my hands
|and be unspecific a lot in answering.  I had to relearn this stuff all
|in the past six days, with a little help from a nice guy in comp.fonts,
|so let's see how much I can remember.

"luckily" :-((

[...]

|Kent, the man from xanth.
|<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>

	Georg.

PS: I would have had answerd earlier, but my news-system seems to loose
    some articles. :-(

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