UKTeX Vol87 #7 HP Laserjet II Driver Bugs CMR10.TFM problems NewFFC Generating DVI drivers Hebrew and Greek --------------------------------- Editor I have recently merged the distribution list for UKTeX and TeXmag. If you do not want the TeXmag material please delete it on arrival. It is easier for me to only have the one list to maintain. TeXmag appears at irregular intervals. I have added a number of items to the archive and suggest that you `pull' a copy of the main index. The major addition is from a tape from John Pavel and includes a comprehensive set of TeX material. As a result the archive now contains duplicate material and this will be weeded out as time permits. Version 2.10 of Nelson Beebe's DVI family is due to be shipped from the states in the next few weeks. I have (I hope) eliminated the long list of recipients from the bottom of the file. Changes scheduled for our mailer in the near future should mean that the Subject line will no longer be blank. Finally as you are probably aware there have been problems with TeXhax recently V87 #75-#78 failed to appear for some time. #81 has now arrived but #80 is still missing. It seems that other distribution lists have their problems as well. If anyone has a copy of #80 please send it to me for the archive. Peter --------------------------------- Date: 5-OCT-1987 18:58:03 GMT From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTT.VAXA To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: Beebe driver for HP LaserJet II Sender: JANET"cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa" (David Osborne) <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa> Organization: Systems Group, Cripps Computing Centre, Univ of Nottingham, UK X-Mailer: VAX/VMS Janet_Mailshr V2.8(b) After much poring over dumps of the output from Nelson Beebe's DVIJEP driver for the LaserJet Plus, which wouldn't drive our LaserJet series II, I figured out what was wrong and hacked it into DVIJE2 which seems to work fine... we produced our first TeX hardcopy last Monday! The different format for soft-font headers is to blame (the LJ II seems to insist on a full 64 bytes) -- so much for the "LaserJet Plus compatibility" claimed in the User Guide! I'll be incorporating the latest changes/bugfixes listed in the last UKTeX in our version before I mail the differences to Nelson Beebe, but in the meantime, anyone who's desperate for a copy can drop me a line to <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa>. Dave --------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 87 16:27:33 BST From: Dr R M Damerell (RHBNC) <damerell@uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss> To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Subject: help please Please has anybody out there got a recent font tape from Stanford, say within the lastr 2--3 months? if so would you be willing to make a dump of the file CMR10.TFM & send it me? I have been getting some very peculiar effects... thank you, mark +++Editor I am not sure how old the files are in the PAVEL group +++ --------------------------------- Date: 6-OCT-1987 18:02:48 From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB To: info-tex-request@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL Subject: NewFFC Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V2.8(b) Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB> Reply-to: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB I'm sure I've spoken to somebody who modified NEWFFC to allow it to deal successfully with PXL files which result from large design sizes and large magnifications. If there's anybody out there who's done this, please let me know. ** Phil. --------------------------------- Date: 07 Oct 87 16:21:56 bst From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh Subject: Generating DVI Drivers. To: texhax%score.stanford.edu@uk.ac.ukc, info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail Message-ID: <07 Oct 87 16:21:56 bst 050728@EMAS-A> Is there a recommended way for generating DVI to device X drivers? I have done one by hacking apart a DVIType - removing all writelns and replacing calls to give info by calls to an external device driver module, BUT it has most of DVItype still in there doing nothing (well, all the consistency checks) except slowing it down. My question is, is there a skeleton device driver in existence which does the job properly? I'm a bit worried that my effort will go stiff if the next version of DVIType changes (for instance). I thought I should ask now as I intend to convert from PXL files to GF files in the near(ish) future. Graham Toal. P.S. My hacked DVIType was at least hacked by a web change file - not by editing the Web or the pascal - hence why I'm a bit worried that my changes may go stiff if DVIType changes underfoot. --------------------------------- Date: 9-OCT-1987 18:49:50 From: PPENDER@IRL.HEA.MAY.VAX1 To: ABBOTTP%UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL@UK.AC.DARESBURY.DLGM I'm interested in finding out if any of your TeX users are currently producing texts using Hebrew or Greek letters. Paddy Pender Advisory Services Computer Centre Maynooth College Co. Kildare IRELAND --------------------------------- !! !! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail please !! distribution changes to info-tex-request@uk.ac.aston.mail please !! !! end of issue