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(Message uktex/v94:41)
From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 17:12:20 +0000
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UKTeX Digest    Friday,  4 Nov 1994    Volume 94 : Issue 41

Today's Topics:
                re: HP Laserjet 4P driver for OpenVMS?
                        TrueType vs. METAFONT
                           EPSIG MM Meeting


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Date:    Fri, 28 Oct 1994 17:35:05 -0400
From:    Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
Subject: re: HP Laserjet 4P driver for OpenVMS?

Peter Eckel asks for a HP Laserjet 4P driver that will work at 600dpi.

Unless someone comes up with something better, I suggest modifying Nelson
Beebe's dvijep.  Beebe's drivers support a wide variety of printers, and the
resolution they assume is configurable by just changing a #define in one of
the files.  You would probably have to change a couple of other things - for
example, the commands generated to load fonts probably implicitly assume or
specify 300dpi - but it should be pretty simple; Beebe's code is well written
and easy to understand and modify.
                                                        -- Jerry

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Date:    Mon, 31 Oct 1994 14:45:25 -0100
From:    Fabricio Chalub Barbosa do Rosario <CHALUB@maracana.lci.ufrj.br>
Subject: TrueType vs. METAFONT


    One of the biggest problems with TeX is the size of its METAFONT 
fonts.  On my computer, I renderized a full set of Computer Modern for 
a 300dpi Laser (which I do not have yet), and the PK total font size 
grew up to 5000kb!  Imagine then the total smash that will be when I 
buy a 600 dpi!!  Due to an obvious lack of disk space, I decided to 
try another TeX package, PCTeXWIN, which uses TrueType fonts as a 
replacement for the METAFONT fonts so well designed by Knuth on late 
70, 80 and util 90!  Actually, the size of the TTF is much smaller 
than the PK's, but since I don't have a laser printer I cannot 
determine whether type produces the best output.  I think that 
because the way METAFONT fonts are made, they are much, much better 
than any TrueType version since TrueTypes are designed by hand and 
their magnifications steps don't take care of details like serifs and 
degrees of roundness etc, as METAFONT do.  (I'm sorry, I don't 
understand nothing of METAFONT nor TT, so excuse my mistakes).

    Anyone who has already tryed both versions can show me the best?
    (tough MF seems to me to be the BEST ever!)
    
[]'s Fabricio Chalub, chalub@lci.ufrj.br

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Date:    Fri, 04 Nov 1994 08:04:20 +0000
From:    malcolm clark <cudax@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: EPSIG MM Meeting (fwd)



malcolm clark              tel: (+44) 01203 523365
computing services         fax: (+44) 01203 523267
university of warwick      url: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~cudax/egotrip.html
coventry, cv4 7al, uk    email: m.clark@warwick.ac.uk
                   golden rule: whoever has the gold, rules

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 17:15:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: Les Carr <L.A.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: Malcolm Clark <cudax@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Cc: Les Carr <lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: EPSIG MM Meeting

Please can you forward a request to uktex to include the following announcement
:
Do suggest any changes that you see fit (e.g. should I include speaker names
or proposed subjects?) but please let me know so that I can make the changes
for other mailing lists as well.
- ----------------------------- cut here ------------------------------
                  Multimedia: The Midas Touch?

                    A one day seminar by the
           BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group
                       in conjunction with
                  The University of Southampton

                          to be held on
                     Thursday, November 24th
                 starting at 10:30am for 11:00am
         Chilworth Manor Residential Conference Centre,
               Chilworth, Southampton, Hampshire.
                        ----------------

Is multimedia the key to riches? What *really* constitutes multimedia and
where is it best applied? Are our computers actually ready for multimedia yet?
These are some of the questions which we hope will be answered at this
seminar. Speakers (who include researchers, book publishers, record producers
and electronic information publishers) will cover the technical requirements
for multimedia, the business requirements necessary to produce good multimedia
packages, and the use of multimedia in commerce, entertainment and education.

Further details and a registration form are on the WWW at
        http://diana.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/mmm.html
or can be obtained by emailing your details to bcsepsg@eps-edge.demon.co.uk
or FAXing your details to 01484 451396
or posting your details to BCS EPSIG, 30 Edgerton Road, Huddersfield, HD3 3AD

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\section Digests

    This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory
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\section Media Distributions
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\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape
    Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains:
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    suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V
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\section TeX Implementations for Small Computers

\subsection PC and Mac disks

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    emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. The cost
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    OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group;
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\subsection TeX for the Atari ST

    Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to:
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\section Postage Rates

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\section Postal Addresses

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    Peter Abbott
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    David Osborne
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    (for Unix cartridges ONLY -- MUST include stamps for return postage)
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\section UK TeX Users Group

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\bye

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