Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 23:36:31 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <199504102236.XAA00823@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <9504102301.AA17165@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Apr 11, 95 00:01:28 am
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In reply to Jean-Marc Zucconi who said > > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> writes: > > [...] > > > Incidentally, since we're talking about TeX and it's friends I have a few > > queries. First, what happened to the directory searching functions that > > we had in 1.1.5? The kpathsea stuff doesn't seem to search subdirectories > > like I thought it should. > > The latest version of the kpathsearch library has bugs. TeX is of > course compiled with the library but the default path has no '//' in > it. You can use the directory searching functions if you set the > various environment variables (but because of the lib bugs, the path > '/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts//tfm' will not work. However > /usr/local/lib/texmf//fonts/tfm will work) > This is the main raison for which I have not ported dvipsk and xdvik, > and I used the original versions. The directory searching functions are > not implemented for dvips and xdvi. Ok, be nice to get it working though. > > > Also, the MakeTeXPK fails under certain circumstances because mf > > creates fonts with the name of jobname.<number>gf where <number> depends > > on the resolution and magnification of the font. In the MakeTeXPK script, > > $GFNAME is set to $NAME.$DPI'gf and $DPI does not alwats map to the > > <number> that mf generates, depending on the magnification used. > > The $DPI variable is provided by xdvi or dvips. Do you mean that the > value is incorrectly computed by xdvi or dvips? I have seen rounding > errors (eg 745gf instead of 746gf), but only on VMS :-) Read the mf manpage. That number is not guaranteed to be the dpi value, it is a function of the dpi value and the magnification. I just tried to actually get an example but of course it never breaks when you need it to :-) -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.
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