Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!ken From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Font questions for TeX Message-ID: <1891@sol.ARPA> Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 23:49:33 EDT Article-I.D.: sol.1891 Posted: Fri Sep 4 23:49:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 22:43:48 EDT References: <10173@duke.cs.duke.edu> Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY Lines: 57 Sorry if the answers are short, these are only pointers to help people. In article <10173@duke.cs.duke.edu> crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) writes: | |I keep running into font problems that I can't figure out from the |documentation (I guess I've got to buy the canonical 5-book set |someday.) I'd appreciate any advice on the following: | |1. I regularly run into a problem where fonts in unusual sizes are not |available, e.g. today when someone wanted amss10.3110pxl. How can I get |fonts at particular sizes when they are not part of the distribution? Bring up METAFONT and generate all the sizes you need. |2. Space for the fonts is getting a little tight here, in part because |we need both 118-pixel fonts and 300-pixel fonts. We have both Imagens |and Laserwriters around. | |2.1 Is there a PK-form (or other compressed form) driver available for |the Imagen? Yes, Nelson Beebe's driver supports PK fonts on a variety of printers, including Imagen. Ftp anonymous to science.utah.edu, cd aps:. |2.2 While we're on the subject, how about an imagen driver that |includes options to print only selected pages? The one we have does |not. Has this feature. Also look at dviselect if you have Unix TeX. |3. We now have a bunch of Macs and several Mac II's available here. We |are doing a lot of illustrations with them. What is the best way to |include the illos and diagrams into TeX and LaTeX using either |LaserWriter or Imagen? The PostScript version of the driver can include PostScript generated elsewhere. Some PS prologue needs to be included. There are a bunch of DVI to PS drivers available that will make this easier. See my answer to 4. |3.1 In particular, can someone tell me about whatever special magic (or |\special magic) is needed to put arbitrary PostScript stuff into the |middle of a TeX file to be printed on a laserwriter? It depends on the PostScript you are trying to include. Mac generated documents require a prologue called MacPrep. Tpic documents require a prologue to define procedures to draw elipses, splines, etc. |4. Is TeXHaX being mailed out any more? I no longer get them, and have |not been getting them for a couple of months at least. Yes, it is going strong and this is you best place to get more detailed answers. The address to get added is texhax-request@score.stanford.edu. There are many people on the list who know more than I do about these matters. Ken