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From: haccme@milton.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Loading 70 fonts into PC-TeX
Summary: the dvi driver is the real problem
Message-ID: <1991May30.191741.18874@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 19:17:41 GMT
References: <10181@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <10181@idunno.Princeton.EDU> rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:
>
>I have a friend who claims to be in the middle of writing up a
>dissertation in East Asian Studies. He's using PC-TeX to typeset the
>chinese, but unfortunately this requires loading about 70 fonts, and
>PC-TeX runs into the 640k barrier long before this. 
>
>Has anyone got a huge TeX set up to handle such things? It would
>presumably have to run under some DOS extender, and if it ran under a
>free one (such as the msdos-Gnu project's one) that would be nice.....
>

   At Washington we have had some success (although, as will be seen
   soon, we haven't gone too far with it) with SB30TeX/SB34TeX; 'some
   success' means typesetting ten to a hundred pages densely populated
   by chinese characters.

   Uh hum.  The real problem is in dvi drivers.  I am aware of nothing
   that will handle the number of fonts we need to be able to deal with
   [which will run under DOS].  *disclaimer* I have not tested *exhaustively*.
   In short, we can TeX on PCs, but need to print on something with a
   heftier OS.  This is somewhat less than convenient.
   
   If anyone is ambitious, I have a crackpot scheme for something like
   DVIcopy which would consolidate references to chinese character fonts
   and write a fudged dvi-file and temporary pk-files so as to get around
   this problem.

   'If anyone is ambitious' means I don't want to do it myself.

cheers,
Tom