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+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
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