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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Metafont on the Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.033543.16687@maths.tcd.ie>
- Summary: MF for the Mac
- Keywords: TeX Mac Metafont
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:35:43 GMT
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- I've left my Think-C version of MF and iniMF
- in pub/Mac/TeX on ftp.maths.tcd.ie ,
- as MF.sit.hqx and iniMF.sit.hqx .
- (The latter includes mf.pool .)
-
- This is a vanilla version of MF,
- ie I have made as few changes from standard Unix-TeX
- as possible (and there were surprisingly few).
- The program runs as it would
- on a dumb Unix terminal.
-
- I'm offering it because the OzTeX MF requires MPW (I think).
- I'm not sure why this is so, as OzTeX itself
- certainly does not require MPW.
-
- The only Mac-kiness I've indulged in
- is to look for the TeX environment variables
- (MFINPUTS, etc) in a file called "TeX Preferences"
- in the standard Mac Preference Folder
- (inside the System Folder).
- The file TeX.Preferences (loc. cit.) is a sample "TeX Preferences" file.
-
- I've also added a facility to allow several fonts
- to be processed sequentially,
- by a command (in Unix language)
-
- MF < batchfile
-
- ie re-directing the Standard Input
- (in the console window) to a file.
- I've left a sample batchfile ("MF.batchfile") in pub/Mac/Tex .
- (I did this in an earlier version,
- but had not realised that MF does not always
- close all its files.
- Consequently the number of open files built up
- until the maximum allowed was reached.
- In this version I have ensured that all files are closed
- after each font is processed.)
-
- I'll leave the sources
- (in the form of diffs from the standard distribution)
- in pub/Mac/TeX/src-5.851c .
-
- There is also a MF.README ,
- and GFtoPK.sit.hqx .
- (I'm not sure if the OzTeX version of this needs MPW,
- but the Euro-OzTeX version doesn't run on my Mac --
- I think it is looking for a floating-point chip.)
-
- The StyleWriter printer I use is 360dpi.
- This means that I can use most of the supplied 300dpi fonts,
- by a stroke of luck.
- The magstephalf fonts are missing, of course,
- and the Euro-OzTeX manual is in 11pt, which needs these.
- But it is easy enough to change the 11pt to 12pt,
- and run it through LaTeX again.
- (It's still in French, though!)
-
- --
- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
- tel: +353-1-2842366
- s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
-