Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:37:22 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950407133552.2623N-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504071552.IAA25547@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote:
> * From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
>
> * 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...)
>
> Yeah, that's right....my guess is that what they need is just metafont
> but since metafont is typically included in a TeX distribution, the
> doc just says it needs TeX.
>
> Satoshi
>
Actually, both you and Brian are right on this one.... It's
Metafont that's the problem that won't run in the background properly.
Cheers,
Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*-
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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