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diff --git a/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..aab4ff8edf --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texhax/96/texhax.11 @@ -0,0 +1,416 @@ +From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (Majordomo list server) +Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #11 +Message-ID: <E0ugfTd-0004lZ-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.ukD> +Date: 17 Jul 96 23:44:30 GMT + + +TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 17 July 1996 Volume 96 : Number 011 + +(incorporating UKTeX Digest) + +Today's Topics: + + Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + Re: wysiwyg (TeXhax Digest V96 #10) + Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + Metafont on Mac + Re: Metafont on Mac + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +From: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu (Amal Phadke) +Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:23:54 -1000 +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? + +> From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT +> Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? +. +> Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? +> +> I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. +> I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the +> Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. +> Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? +> +> Sincerely, +> Tom Bryan +> +> E-Systems, Goleta Division +> One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA +> Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +> FAX: (805) 964-0470 +> + +Tom: + + OzTeX 2.0.1, Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh shareware version of TeX +now has its own METAFONT program OzMF. It has worked flawlessly for me so +far. OzTeX is available at all CTAN sites under +"/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex" directory. + +Cheers + +- --- +Amal Phadke +Department of Ocean Engineering, +School of Ocean and Earth Sciences & Technology +University of Hawaii at Manoa +2540 Dole street , Holmes Hall 408B +Honolulu, HI 96822, USA +Tel: (808) 956-8198 Fax: (808) 956-3498 + +e-mail: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu +WWW Page : http://oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu/~phadke + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:56:52 +0200 +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + +The following message is a courtesy copy of an article +that has been posted as well. + +>>>>> Hartmut Peters <peters@sunhp.msrc.sunysb.edu> (HP) writes: + +HP> Dear fellow TeXers, +HP> I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only +HP> do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix +HP> and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text +HP> to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting +HP> information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a +HP> parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) + +HP> The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, +HP> yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX +HP> files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure +HP> wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... + +Try tex2rtf (not latex2rtf), from the support directory on CTAN. It +produces RTF which can be read both by Wordpervert and Microsloth Word, and +probably plenty of others, too. + +If that doesn't work you could try detex, but it may throw away too much. +Or latex it, and push it through dvi2tty. +- -- +Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] + +------------------------------ + +From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:09:21 +0200 +Subject: Re: wysiwyg (TeXhax Digest V96 #10) + +The following message is a courtesy copy of an article +that has been posted as well. + +>>>>> Hartmut Peters <peters@sunhp.msrc.sunysb.edu> (HP) writes: + +HP> Dear fellow TeXers, +HP> I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only +HP> do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix +HP> and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text +HP> to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting +HP> information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a +HP> parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) + +HP> The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, +HP> yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX +HP> files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure +HP> wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... + +Try tex2rtf (not latex2rtf), from the support directory on CTAN. It +produces RTF which can be read both by Wordpervert and Microsloth Word, and +probably plenty of others, too. + +If that doesn't work you could try detex, but it may throw away too much. +Or latex it, and push it through dvi2tty. +- -- +Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.ruu.nl> +URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] + +------------------------------ + +From: John Burt <BURT@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:18:02 -0500 (EST) +Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 + +Yes, I have had success running Metafont on a Mac. The one I use is +the Metafont that is a part of the CMacTeX package. It makes the standard +.tfm and .gf files, and you run gftopk on the .gf file to generate a .pk +file. Running Metafont is not trivial, but this Metafont behaves +exactly like the metafonts in the unix and vms worlds. It is shareware, but +you get the whole CMacTeX package, which is great, for your money. You +can download the most recent version from the author's home page. I +don't have his URL handy, but I think it's +http://math.tamu.edu/~tkiffe/cmactex.html +The author's name is Tom Kiffe. + +One note: your TeX must use standard .pk files (CMacTeX and OzTeX do---in +fact the latter uses Kiffe's Metafont as well). Some systems---I think +Te +textures among them---don't use standard .pk files. +John Burt +burt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu + +------------------------------ + +From: campbell@beloit.edu (Paul J. Campbell) +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:19:18 -0600 +Subject: Metafont on Mac + +I too have been experimenting with Metafont 0.66 on the Mac (acutally, when +it runs, it says it is 0.65). + +I'm glad you asked your question, so I can describe for my own +benefit---before I forget!---what works. + +There is a file metafont-for-beginners on CTAN (I think it is in /doc), but +I have not seen anything specific to the Mac. + +Last week I had my first success with Metafont. I was able to take a +Metafont description of an .mf file and turn it into a font suitcase that +works with any application. + +The key problem is that .mf files cannot be processed without some additions. + +I used the program shell + +mode=laserwriter; % Metafont checks mfinputs:local.mf for all mode_def's; + % put here the option that fits your printer +mag=magstep0; % could be magstep1, or 0.5,2,3,4,5 as well +%screenstrokes; % could be screenchars, for per character viewing, +but works faster this way +input hcyr % this is the .mf file to process; add more +input lines as needed +bye + +To the original .mf file I added the following introductory lines: + +font_size 10pt#; % the "design size" of this font; can be whatever you like +ht#:=10pt#; % height of characters +xgap#:=0.6pt#; % horizontal adjustment (I just guessed at this) + +If you don't put in lines like those, everything appears to work, Metafont +says that it writes the fonts to files, and indeed it creates files---empty +ones! + +You process the program shell file with Metafont with the settings Make +Suitcase and (for me, by default) Plain, by selecting Metafont on the +Metafont menu. + +Metafont adds the font to the MFfonts suitcase and creates an MFmetrics +suitcase (you can see the latter and you can double-click the former to +examine the contents---that's how I found out I wasn't getting anything). +You need the latter for use with TeX but the former will work with any +program (Word, etc.) if you put it into the System folder. The application +program (e.g., Word) will scale the font (with jaggies) to any size; if you +want nice looking characters, process the .mf file to make fonts at all the +sizes you will use. + +I was just making a font of ancient Croatian script for a couple of +students here, but part of my reason for exploring all this is an old +desire (and a new need) to be able to take fonts for IBM (.pfb, .pfa, .pfm +files) and make them into Mac bitmapped (or preferably PS) fonts. After +exploring lots of software on CTAN last week, I am convinced that this can +be done but (as far as I know) only by making a detour to using some Unix +programs along the way. + +A promising new port of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont (0.66), BibTex, and +Metapost(!) for the Mac was promulgated this April. Called cmactex25, it is +available at CTAN (it's shareware, $35). CMacTeX handles afm, pfa, pfb, and +tfm files directly and there is no need to convert them into a Mac-specific +format. I have explored only its font utilities so far. + + + + Paul J. Campbell + Mathematics and Computer Science + Beloit College + 700 College St. + Beloit, WI 53511 + (608) 363-2007 (ofc) + 362-2805 (res) + 363-2718 (fax) + campbell@beloit.edu + + + +------------------------------ + +From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:41:45 PDT +Subject: Re: Metafont on Mac + +Dear Paul, + +Thank you for your advice on using Metafont 0.66 on the Mac. I +tried your advice and got the Blue Sky version to work for the +first time. However, I was still dissatisfied with the +deficiencies of the Blue Sky Metafont. I received two other +replies (enclosed) that led me to download and try OzTeX, +DirectTeX, and CMacTeX. I only have a few days of experience +with these other packages, but thus far I like the OzTeX the best +and it replicates the examples in Knuth's MetaFont book without +any problems (something I couldn't do in the Blue Sky version). + +Sincerely, +Tom + +- -- +Dr Thomas A Bryan +E-Systems, Goleta Division +One South Los Carneros, Goleta, California, USA 93117-3197, USA +Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +FAX: (805) 964-0470 + +Home: 275 Savona Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117, USA (805) 968-1264 + +Return-Path: <@ESDSVR.esd.ray.com:Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie> +Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:22:47 +0100 +From: Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie (Dr Alun J. Carr) +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? +X-Sender: ajcarr@pop3.ucd.ie +To: tbryan@esd.ray.com +Mime-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT + +Tom, + +>Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? + +Well, I haven't even tried the Bluesky one, which is obsolete, to say the +least. All the `mainstream' TeX implementations for the Mac (OzTeX, +DirectTeX Pro, and CMacTeX) come with their own METAFONT implementations, +which work extremely well, with the DVI previewers/printer drivers +automatically calling METAFONT to generate missing fonts. Textures seems to +be primarily Postscript font based, rather than bitmap-based, so METAFONT +is a bit of an anomaly in a Textures system. I know only one Textures user +here at UCD, and even he abandoned it a while back, and started using +DirectTeX Pro (which works like a dream in conjunction with the Alpha text +editor and the Excalibur spelling-checker). + +You can find the latest releases of OzTeX, CMacTeX and DirectTeX Pro, with +their METAFONTs at the UK or German CTAN sites (the US CTAN is pretty-much +defunct): + +<ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/mac/> +<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/mac/> + +Hope this helps. + +Alun + + +- -- +Dr Alun J. CARR Phone: +353-1-7061989 +Mechanical Engineering Dept. +353-1-2693244 x1989 +University College Dublin Fax: +353-1-2830534 +Belfield E-mail: <Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie> +Dublin 4 WWW: <http://tizit.ucd.ie/ajcarr/> +Ireland + + + +Return-Path: <@ESDSVR.esd.ray.com:phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu> +Mime-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:23:54 -1000 +To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk +From: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu (Amal Phadke) +Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? +Cc: tbryan@esd.ray.com + +> From: Tom Bryan <tbryan@Thorin> +> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT +> Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? +> +> Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? +> +> I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. +> I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the +> Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. +> Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? +> +> Sincerely, +> Tom Bryan +> +> E-Systems, Goleta Division +> One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA +> Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 +> FAX: (805) 964-0470 +> + +Tom: + + OzTeX 2.0.1, Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh shareware version of TeX +now has its own METAFONT program OzMF. It has worked flawlessly for me so +far. OzTeX is available at all CTAN sites under +"/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex" directory. + +Cheers + +- --- +Amal Phadke +Department of Ocean Engineering, +School of Ocean and Earth Sciences & Technology +University of Hawaii at Manoa +2540 Dole street , Holmes Hall 408B +Honolulu, HI 96822, USA +Tel: (808) 956-8198 Fax: (808) 956-3498 + +e-mail: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu +WWW Page : http://oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu/~phadke + + + + +------------------------------ + +End of TeXhax Digest V96 #11 +**************************** + + +About TeXhax... + +Please send contributions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk + +Subscription and unsubscription requests: + send a one line mail message to TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk + containing either subscribe texhax + or unsubscribe texhax +If you have problems with un/subscribing, please mail owner-texhax@nott.ac.uk + +To obtain the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) lists for TeX, send a +message with no subject to fileserv@shsu.edu, consisting of +SENDME FAQ + +For information on the TeX Users Group, please send a message to +TUG@TUG.org, or write TeX Users Group, 1850 Union Street, #1637 +San Francisco CA 94123 (phone: 1 415 982 8449, fax: 1 415 982 8559) + +Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX +Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by +anonymous ftp. 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