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Subject: LN03 vs. TeX
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 04:47:03 EDT
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From: David Fuchs <DRF@SU-SCORE.ARPA>

There is an LN03 driver for Vax/VMS on the latest TeX distribution tape.
It is contributed software, so I don't know any detailed answers about
it; but as it was written by a DEC employee, I suspect you may find in
it the answers to some of the questions that the LN03 documentation
does not address.  If someone wants to work on a Unix version, I'd be
glad to send a gratis copy of the VMS stuff to work from.

Hardware that makes stupid assumptions about the number of characters
in a font is not uncommon.  A number of driver programs divvy up "real"
fonts into bogus character sets for such machines; this can have the
advantage that if your job only uses a few characters from a given
font, only those images need to be down-loaded.

As for the chicken-and-egg documentation problem, another way to get
pretty listings of the various TeX-land programs is through the
document sales person at the Comp. Sci. Dept. here at Stanford.
Or you can bribe me with that grilled cheese and (Rev. A) Coke.
	-david
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