Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!ifistg!ifi!mattes From: mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eberhard Mattes) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: emtex questions: pxl/pk; s/r and q .tmf question Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 11:25:01 GMT References: <9105130724.AA16143@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu> Sender: news@ifistg.uucp Organization: IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, W Germany Lines: 39 In-reply-to: xiaofei@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU's message of 13 May 91 07:24:10 GMT xiaofei wrote: > I have a couple questions I would appreciate answers: > > def lj=[mode=hplaser[300]; output=pk[c:\newfonts\pixel.lj\pxl%s]]; > > I wonder why pxl%s used instead of %r or %rdpi? considering the fact that > fonts created by mfjob will be in .pk format not in .pxl format. Here's a citation from modes.mfj of the 25-Sep-1990 release of emTeX: def lj=[mode=hplaser[300]; output=pk[c:\newfonts\pixel.lj\%rdpi]; tfmlog]; > In set-tex.bat there is a line: > > SET DVIDRVGRAPH=C:\EMTEX\DOC\GR$r > > I understand that r means resolution, say 300 [dpi] and s = r * 5 > my question is how the value is passed to r and to s? See prtlj.bat, for instance. The value of the DVIDRVGRAPH environment variable is used as argument for the /pg* option. See the manual for the /pg* option. > and it seems that sometimes % used [ see modes.mfj: %s] > and sometimes $ is used see above line quoted. what is the grammar? All programs (in the 25-Sep-1990 release) use $r and $s. All programs in the next release will use @r :-) > My questions: Are the .tfm files machine dependent ? i.e. if I > get a .tfm from unix and transfer it to msdos, will it work ? They're machine independent. > Suppose I need a cmr13.tfm how do I make/get it ? Fetch the Sauter fonts. -- Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)