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From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 15:58:12 +0000
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UKTeX Digest Friday, 11 Mar 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 10
``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary
service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.''
Today's Topics:
{Questions & Answers}:
Re: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file?
Macintosh format PostScript Fonts
Re: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts
Float minor style
Query via FAX from Poland
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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 20:02:44 +0000
From: spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz)
Subject: Re: when is a .pfb file not a .pfb file?
> $200 for Yannis Haralambous' ScholarTex package bought me the
> fonts but no installation instructions ...
put pressure on him
> But --- and I already knew this was a problem --- although I can generate
> .tfm and .vpl files perfectly successfully with afm2tfm, for some reason the
> program called vptovf whose job it is to make a .vf file simply won't work;
> it flashes a continuous string of error messages about `character in line 1
> not in parentheses', and has to be put out of its misery with ^C.
you are doing something seriously wrong. what does the .vpl file you
are trying to convert look like? sounds as if you are working on
a binary file
> And indeed the printed output is different. But it's still not right. The
> accents and breathings now appear more convincing, but instead of being
> situated over their proper letters they sit smugly over an extra vowel of
> their own -- a Greek lc upsilon, in each case. And final sigmas still don't
> appear as such.
>
> So the `virtual font' stuff still isn't working properly. Please God, don't
> tell me I have to go into Re-Encoding ...
its impossible to say, withoit seeing your fonts , what happening. you
*must* press Yannis, if you paid him money, otherwise you'll end up
paying someone else to fix his problems.
are you simply after Greek? there are plenty of other good Greek
fonts. i can help with Monotype Porson Greek if you need.
sebastian
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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1994 14:34:40 +0000
From: dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk (Dean Ayres)
Subject: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts
I've just purchased a copy of Apple Adobe Type Manager for the Mac,
with the aim of using the fonts with PSNFSS/ghostscript on a Sun.
Unfortunately, they are in a Binary format. Is it possible to convert
them to the standard ASCII PFA format?
Regards,
Dean Ayres
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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 13:14:54 +0000
From: dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk (Dean Ayres)
Subject: Re: Macintosh format PostScript Fonts
I asked how to convert Macintosh format PostScript fonts (as supplied with
Adobe Type Manager) to pfa or pfb format for use in a TeX system.
Sebastian Rahtz replied;
> ghostscript and dvips read binary pfb files ok; you just need to convert out
of
> Mac rubbish. check out t1tools somewhere on CTAN for various
> conversion tools.
I looked in t1tools and also t1utils (both on CTAN). They convert between
pfa, pfb and ascii font formats, but don't 'convert out the Mac rubbish.'
Has anyone else had any luck with this?
Dean Ayres
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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 11:11:14 +0000
From: David Lindsey <d.c.lindsey@aberdeen.ac.uk>
Subject: Float minor style
The LaTeX Companion, section: 6.2, describes a minor style: 'float' by Anselm
Lingnau which provides facilities helping one cope with the rather wayward
behaviour of LaTeX floats.
Can anyone tell me how to get hold of a copy of this? I've searched the
/pub/archive/macros hierarchy, not exhaustively but exhaustedly nonetheless.
David Lindsey (d.c.lindsey@abdn.ac.uk)
Aberdeen University Computing Centre
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 15:25:23 +0000
From: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk
Subject: Query via FAX from Poland
Dear Colleague
While brousing through Acorn Education Directory I found information which
indicates that you can name TeX on Archimedes. Because the main part of my
scientific output is written in TeX, LaTeX or AMSTeX I am familiar with
these programmes, but it would be nice if can copy with TeX on Archimedes
5000 computer I bought and and which stands at my home. If you see any
possibility to help me I will be delighted. If yes please write at address
above.
Sincerely yours
Rafal Kolodziej
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Email RAFALO@mimuw.edu.pl
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