Subject: Re: Bug#3415: Xdvi and postscript fonts

From: [email-masked] (joost witteveen)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:34:42 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> Package: latex
> Version: 2e-4
> 
> Using xdvi with postscript fonts doesn't work: MakeTeXPK doesn't
> create the postscript bitmap files.  I get output like this:

Could you send me your input file(s)?
Last time (yesterday) when I used \usepackage{times} in my latex2e
files, itworked OK, but you probably mean something different
with the postscript fonts.

Anyway, the current *TeX* maintainer, Nils Rennebarth <[email-masked]>
has changed email-address, and seems not too responsive to mail
I sent to [email-masked] (altough it _is_ the same nils).
So, maybe I'll try to fix this, if I manage.

> The TeTeX distribution (version 0.3.3) provides gsftopk, which uses
> the ghostscript fonts to create the bitmaps.  I think the debian
> packages should do this too.

Could you also tell me where to find teTeX? (if CTAN, then never
mind, I'll find it).

> David M. Smith, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University
> <[email-masked]>  x3952  http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk:2080/~maa036/

BTW, if anyone else is working on the *TeX* packages, please tell me.

Thanks,

-- 
joost witteveen
            [email-masked]
          [email-masked]
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Use Debian/GNU Linux!

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From: Mark Eichin <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Jun 1996 14:26:51 -0400

>with the postscript fonts.

Did you use xdvi, though? latex->dvips works, I think, it's the
latex->xdvi that screws up (xdvi uses ugly fonts at the wrong size
instead, because MakeTeXPK fails to create them.)