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- From: terjem@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Normann Marthinussen)
- Subject: Re: Metafont font generation for TeX
- References: <1993Jan21.132709.2285@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan21.200448.5380@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Sender: news@news.uit.no (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Tromsoe
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:16:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.001608.12487@news.uit.no>
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- In article <1993Jan21.200448.5380@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
- >Jonathan P Moore - H600/91 (u1jpm@ohm.york.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: Can anybody give me a fools guide on how to set up metafont using
- >: Arexx so that when I use dvips or Showdvi it actually generates the
- >: font required??
- >and dviprint...
- >
- >: The docs are a bit skimpy, and my knowledge of Arexx relies upon the
- >: manual that comes with Workbench 2 (ie I know nothing!)
- >
- >: Thanks a lot
- >
- >Could you post this, instead of sending it via e-mail? I'm about to
- >voyage into the world of PasTeX again....
-
- Hmm....
- Well, I shall try to give an explanation.
-
- First of all find the callmf package which is included in the Pastex
- distribution (in REXX/CallMF) or I believe it's also available as a separate
- distribution.
-
- Study the README file there and copy files to their correct destinations
- according to the README file.
- (I believe you should copy the two #?.mf files to MF:inputs and the "modes" file
- to MF:config.)
-
- Then you'll have to set the CallMF enviroment variable to whatever suits you.
- Personally I like metafont to calculate new fonts at once. But before I got
- my A4000 this was kind of slow.... So I sometimes used to collect a couple of
- batch files that I could let my Amy work on while I was out :)
-
- If you want metafont to calculate new fonts at once, you should probably
- put something like setenv CallMF TeX:REXX/CallMF/MakeTeXFonts in your
- startup sequence (in case you have put the included arexx scripts in REXX:
- setenv CallMF MakeTeXFonts is enough (Oh... don't I just love those multiple
- assigns...:))
-
- Note: Make sure that you have made a correct assignment of MF: and added a path
- to MF:bin before you do the next steps.
-
- Then you'll probably have to dump a new plain.base file.
- cd to the MF:bases directory.
- enter:
- inimf
- [you'll then get a message like "This is METAFONT, C Version 2.7 (INIMF)"]
- **plain
- [some text being printed on the screen]
- */input mydevices
- [some more text]
- */input Pastex-modes
- [even more text]
- */<input any other configuration file that you'll like to include here>
- */dump
-
- Well...
- After this Metafont should be ready to use.
-
- But, right now Showdvi (or printdvi) will probably pop up a requester for
- different font disks each time it can't find the font in "TeX:pk". If you press
- cancel, then MetaFont should be started and a new font calculated and put into
- TeX:pk.
-
- If you want to avoid getting this requester simply remove the file
- TeX:config/FontVols (uh... I'm typing from my head now... I think it was the name
- of the file at least).
-
- Well, as far as I remember that should be all.
- I think most or all of the above could be found in the documentation included
- with the CallMF and MetaFont packages.
-
- By the way...
- Thanks to all the persons which have made TeX/Metafont and utilities available.
- Btw. Would the speed increase of a special version compiled for 68040 be big
- enough to justify it's distribution?
-
-
- Terje Marthinussen
- terjem@stud.cs.uit.no
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