Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:10:25 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FREEBSD-PORTS-L <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950407130817.2623F-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950407134642.17762K-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Brian Tao wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, -Vince- wrote:
> >
> > Yep, because dvips needs TeX to create the required fonts I
> > think...
>
> I thought dvips just needed Metafont and the MakeTeXPK script to
> generate the bitmaps? TeX is just a macro processor ("just", ha!)
> that calls MetaFont to retrieve font metrics and the like. That's my
> understanding of it, after trying to rebuild the latest kpathsea'd
> versions of TeX/LaTex2e/dvipsk/xdvik under FreeBSD (what a nightmare
> that was...)
> --
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
>
>
Actually, you are right. It does need Metafont and the MakeTeXPK
script to generate the bitmaps... I guess the one in the TeX port won't
run in the background properly....
Cheers,
Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*-
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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