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- Subject: Re: impression->TEX
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.183817.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- References: <1992Aug13.213412.20960@microsoft.com> <1992Aug14.091359.18759@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:38:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.091359.18759@doc.ic.ac.uk>, ijp@oak10.doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- > Not directly (well as far as I can work out anyway) because all TeX
- > macros must start with a '\', and Impression DDF doesn't use that. But
-
- Not true! (read the TeXbook). You can redefine { as an escape character if
- you want. TeX is a full programming language; you certainly could write
- a converter, although I don't know how much effort it would be (probably not
- much, if you're only converting things like font changes). TeX does its
- own page layout, so I doubt that you could keep it wysiwyg.
-
- > frame info get saved into a DDF file?) and graphics would be a
- > nightmare (TeX graphics always are :-) ).
-
- The normal approach would be to have the graphics in a separate PostScript
- file, and use \special{} commands to merge them at the DVItoPS stage.
-
- > Then of course there's the problem of font translation (unless you
- > only use the TeX fonts - but then you'd need to get over 1/3rd the TeX
- > distibution anyway, so you might as well go the full hog).
-
- This is an interesting question - are PostScript fonts available for TeX? (i.e.
- as TFM files). There's no reason why they shouldn't be, but I've never seen
- any.
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