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- This is a set of hints for using the ST version of TeX together
- with DVIST, a screen preview program.
-
- The .FMT files dictate which fonts TeX will use. Most sizes of
- fonts can be generated in two ways: either by using exactly the
- correct font, or using a magnification of some other smaller or
- larger font.
-
- As it turns out, DVIST is distributed with only a limited set of
- fonts. TeX is not distributed with .FMT files, so you must build
- them using INITEX and input files PLAIN.TEX, LPLAIN.TEX, LATEX.TEX,
- and LFONTS.TEX taken from your favorite minicomputer. I have access
- to two different machines running TeX. One of them had its LaTeX
- fonts built with 12 point fonts as 12 point fonts, and the other
- had 12 point fonts made with magnified 10 point fonts. The
- distribution of DVIST contains 10 point fonts in the magnification
- needed to mimic the 12 point fonts, but does not have 12 point
- fonts.
-
- I randomly built LPLAIN.FMT using the real 12 point fonts, and found
- that DVIST could not process any .DVI output generated by TeX due
- to missing fonts. I ended up rebuilding it using the magnified 10
- point version of LFONTS.TEX, and everything works fine now.
-
- What we really need are an archive of .FMT files which work with
- DVIST.
-