Subject: Re: PoorMan's languages in TeX under DOS

From: "Thomas B. Ridgeway" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1991 16:54:57 PDT

Bin Zhang writes:
   > Hi!
   >
   > Does anyone out there know if PoorMan TeX works with any DOS version
   > of TeX (e.g. emTeX, etc.)?  Thanks for your information.
   >

    The *TeX* portion of a PoorMan's TeX system should work on any
 TeX (probably anywhere, provided it is robust enough to, say, run LaTeX).
 Specifically PoorMan's will run o.k. with SBTeX, PCTeX, emTeX . . .

 There may well be a problem with dvi-drivers on small systems such
 as PCs.  The DOS version of dvips54, for instance, although otherwise
 excellent, cannot handle pm-TeX- produced dvi's.
 Recent versions of the drivers provided with the emTeX distribution
 do well, specifically dvihplj and dvidot; dvixx050's HP driver also does well.
 *Some* dvidrivers expect to be able to load fairly hefty font tables
 into memory for every font needed; this can be a problem if you are
 using 50 or 60 fonts on a page . . .

 If anyone else has other/more experience, I reckon we would like to
 hear about it . . .

 cheers,
 Tom
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