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- From: howell@blegga.u.washington.edu (David Howell)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: How Do I Write a New Mode for Metafont?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.074158.28604@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 07:41:58 GMT
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- tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen) writes:
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-
- >TeX'rs:
-
- >I have to add support to MakeTeXPK at our site for a LaserMaster 1200,
- >a 1200 dpi laser printer. There exist modes for the Baby Linotronic
- >at 1270 dpi and the Linotronic at 2540 dpi, but I can't locate the
- >part of the source tree where modes are defined so I can roll my own.
- >Can someone please let me know on this group where in the distribution
- >tree of TeX for Unix I should go to?
-
- Y'know, I just did this last week! As it turned out, my drivers
- absolutely refused to *use* the .pk files, but I did talk Metafont
- into generating *something.*
-
- I'm not sure it worked, however, since Metafont insisted that
- circle10 at magstep0 meant you had
- circle10.2607pk
- and Im sure that's not right. :)
-
- However, the file containing the modes (on my machine at least)
- is...hmm, this may not help you...amiga.mf, and it's in the
- inputs directory. Needless to say, I'm running it on an Amiga.
-
- Here's my entry:
-
- mode_def lmtwelve = % Lasermaster 1200
- proofing:=0; % no, we're not making proofs
- fontmaking:=1; % yes, we are making a font
- tracingtitles:=0; % no, don't show titles in the log
- pixels_per_inch:=1200; %
- blacker:=0; % don't make the pens any blacker
- fillin:=0; % and don't compensate for fillin
- o_correction:=0;
- aspect_ratio:=800/1200; % vertically it's 800 dpi.
- enddef;
-