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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Re: How Do I Write a New Mode for Metafont?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.170714.20239@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <1992Jul28.184701.21757@u.washington.edu> <l7b7h0INNkif@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:07:14 GMT
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- tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- I think that information on modes is usually taken
- from Karl Berry's file modes.mf ,
- which I believe has info on your printers.
- This info can be included in the plain.base file as follows.
- When that file is being created by
-
- inimf plain
-
- and you get back the * prompt you reply
-
- *input modes
- *dump
-
-
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- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
- tel: +353-1-2842366
- s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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