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- From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
- Subject: Re: SB38TEX MSDOS DVI for HP Laserjet IIP wanted
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- References: <staley.727726832@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:04:10 GMT
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- In article <staley.727726832@unixg.ubc.ca> staley@unixg.ubc.ca (Donald R Staley) writes:
- >I recently downloaded SB38TEX.ZIP from
- >WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil from PD1:<MSDOS.TEX>
- >However, I have not yet found a DVI driver
- >which works with the FTM format files provided.
-
- ?? Perhapy you mean tex font metric files (files ending with .tfm). Printer
- drivers will not use the format files (files created by initex and ending
- with .fmt).
-
- I've used sb34tex. What dvi drivers have you tried? I am certain that
- Gustaf Neumann's dvi2xx works, and so do the drivers from the emTeX package.
- Get dvi2xx at simtel20; get the emTeX stuff at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
- pub/os2/all/unix/tex/. (I have assumed that you wish to go to an HP Laserjet.
- Get the emTeX drivers if it is dot-matrix; get Rokicki's dvips if it is
- Postscript.)
-
- Finally, are you sure that the drivers you tested even look at tfm files?
- It is true that some drivers permit the use of characters from one font
- while it gets sizes from some other tfm file (used when the correct font is
- not available).
-
- --darrel
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