From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.UK (Majordomo list server) Subject: TeXhax Digest V96 #11 Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 96 23:44:30 GMT TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 17 July 1996 Volume 96 : Number 011 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 Re: wysiwyg (TeXhax Digest V96 #10) Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 Metafont on Mac Re: Metafont on Mac ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu (Amal Phadke) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:23:54 -1000 Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? > From: Tom Bryan > Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT > Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? . > Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? > > I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. > I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the > Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. > Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? > > Sincerely, > Tom Bryan > > E-Systems, Goleta Division > One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA > Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 > FAX: (805) 964-0470 > Tom: OzTeX 2.0.1, Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh shareware version of TeX now has its own METAFONT program OzMF. It has worked flawlessly for me so far. OzTeX is available at all CTAN sites under "/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex" directory. Cheers - --- Amal Phadke Department of Ocean Engineering, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences & Technology University of Hawaii at Manoa 2540 Dole street , Holmes Hall 408B Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Tel: (808) 956-8198 Fax: (808) 956-3498 e-mail: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu WWW Page : http://oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu/~phadke ------------------------------ From: Piet van Oostrum Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:56:52 +0200 Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. >>>>> Hartmut Peters (HP) writes: HP> Dear fellow TeXers, HP> I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only HP> do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix HP> and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text HP> to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting HP> information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a HP> parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) HP> The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, HP> yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX HP> files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure HP> wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... Try tex2rtf (not latex2rtf), from the support directory on CTAN. It produces RTF which can be read both by Wordpervert and Microsloth Word, and probably plenty of others, too. If that doesn't work you could try detex, but it may throw away too much. Or latex it, and push it through dvi2tty. - -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] ------------------------------ From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 12:09:21 +0200 Subject: Re: wysiwyg (TeXhax Digest V96 #10) The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. >>>>> Hartmut Peters (HP) writes: HP> Dear fellow TeXers, HP> I am having a paper in the mill at Academic Press in the UK, and they only HP> do wysiwyg programs like word, yuk! My manuscript is in LaTeX both on Unix HP> and on a Mac under Textures. Does anybody know of a way to export the text HP> to wysiwyg programs? It wouldn't be a problem if the formatting HP> information got lost as long as the text came across. (Excalibur has a HP> parser that throws out the LaTeX/TeX commands...) HP> The opposite way apparently works, but I haven't seen TeX --> wysiwyg, HP> yet. Well, if not, the Academic Press folks may have to digest the LaTeX HP> files or retype it (in which case I get to find all the typos...) I sure HP> wish they could handle something more professional than "Word"... Try tex2rtf (not latex2rtf), from the support directory on CTAN. It produces RTF which can be read both by Wordpervert and Microsloth Word, and probably plenty of others, too. If that doesn't work you could try detex, but it may throw away too much. Or latex it, and push it through dvi2tty. - -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet [PGP] ------------------------------ From: John Burt Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 11:18:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V96 #10 Yes, I have had success running Metafont on a Mac. The one I use is the Metafont that is a part of the CMacTeX package. It makes the standard .tfm and .gf files, and you run gftopk on the .gf file to generate a .pk file. Running Metafont is not trivial, but this Metafont behaves exactly like the metafonts in the unix and vms worlds. It is shareware, but you get the whole CMacTeX package, which is great, for your money. You can download the most recent version from the author's home page. I don't have his URL handy, but I think it's http://math.tamu.edu/~tkiffe/cmactex.html The author's name is Tom Kiffe. One note: your TeX must use standard .pk files (CMacTeX and OzTeX do---in fact the latter uses Kiffe's Metafont as well). Some systems---I think Te textures among them---don't use standard .pk files. John Burt burt@binah.cc.brandeis.edu ------------------------------ From: campbell@beloit.edu (Paul J. Campbell) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 13:19:18 -0600 Subject: Metafont on Mac I too have been experimenting with Metafont 0.66 on the Mac (acutally, when it runs, it says it is 0.65). I'm glad you asked your question, so I can describe for my own benefit---before I forget!---what works. There is a file metafont-for-beginners on CTAN (I think it is in /doc), but I have not seen anything specific to the Mac. Last week I had my first success with Metafont. I was able to take a Metafont description of an .mf file and turn it into a font suitcase that works with any application. The key problem is that .mf files cannot be processed without some additions. I used the program shell mode=laserwriter; % Metafont checks mfinputs:local.mf for all mode_def's; % put here the option that fits your printer mag=magstep0; % could be magstep1, or 0.5,2,3,4,5 as well %screenstrokes; % could be screenchars, for per character viewing, but works faster this way input hcyr % this is the .mf file to process; add more input lines as needed bye To the original .mf file I added the following introductory lines: font_size 10pt#; % the "design size" of this font; can be whatever you like ht#:=10pt#; % height of characters xgap#:=0.6pt#; % horizontal adjustment (I just guessed at this) If you don't put in lines like those, everything appears to work, Metafont says that it writes the fonts to files, and indeed it creates files---empty ones! You process the program shell file with Metafont with the settings Make Suitcase and (for me, by default) Plain, by selecting Metafont on the Metafont menu. Metafont adds the font to the MFfonts suitcase and creates an MFmetrics suitcase (you can see the latter and you can double-click the former to examine the contents---that's how I found out I wasn't getting anything). You need the latter for use with TeX but the former will work with any program (Word, etc.) if you put it into the System folder. The application program (e.g., Word) will scale the font (with jaggies) to any size; if you want nice looking characters, process the .mf file to make fonts at all the sizes you will use. I was just making a font of ancient Croatian script for a couple of students here, but part of my reason for exploring all this is an old desire (and a new need) to be able to take fonts for IBM (.pfb, .pfa, .pfm files) and make them into Mac bitmapped (or preferably PS) fonts. After exploring lots of software on CTAN last week, I am convinced that this can be done but (as far as I know) only by making a detour to using some Unix programs along the way. A promising new port of TeX, LaTeX, Metafont (0.66), BibTex, and Metapost(!) for the Mac was promulgated this April. Called cmactex25, it is available at CTAN (it's shareware, $35). CMacTeX handles afm, pfa, pfb, and tfm files directly and there is no need to convert them into a Mac-specific format. I have explored only its font utilities so far. Paul J. Campbell Mathematics and Computer Science Beloit College 700 College St. Beloit, WI 53511 (608) 363-2007 (ofc) 362-2805 (res) 363-2718 (fax) campbell@beloit.edu ------------------------------ From: Tom Bryan Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 15:41:45 PDT Subject: Re: Metafont on Mac Dear Paul, Thank you for your advice on using Metafont 0.66 on the Mac. I tried your advice and got the Blue Sky version to work for the first time. However, I was still dissatisfied with the deficiencies of the Blue Sky Metafont. I received two other replies (enclosed) that led me to download and try OzTeX, DirectTeX, and CMacTeX. I only have a few days of experience with these other packages, but thus far I like the OzTeX the best and it replicates the examples in Knuth's MetaFont book without any problems (something I couldn't do in the Blue Sky version). Sincerely, Tom - -- Dr Thomas A Bryan E-Systems, Goleta Division One South Los Carneros, Goleta, California, USA 93117-3197, USA Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 FAX: (805) 964-0470 Home: 275 Savona Avenue, Goleta, California, 93117, USA (805) 968-1264 Return-Path: <@ESDSVR.esd.ray.com:Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 18:22:47 +0100 From: Alun.J.Carr@ucd.ie (Dr Alun J. Carr) Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? X-Sender: ajcarr@pop3.ucd.ie To: tbryan@esd.ray.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Tom, >Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? Well, I haven't even tried the Bluesky one, which is obsolete, to say the least. All the `mainstream' TeX implementations for the Mac (OzTeX, DirectTeX Pro, and CMacTeX) come with their own METAFONT implementations, which work extremely well, with the DVI previewers/printer drivers automatically calling METAFONT to generate missing fonts. Textures seems to be primarily Postscript font based, rather than bitmap-based, so METAFONT is a bit of an anomaly in a Textures system. I know only one Textures user here at UCD, and even he abandoned it a while back, and started using DirectTeX Pro (which works like a dream in conjunction with the Alpha text editor and the Excalibur spelling-checker). You can find the latest releases of OzTeX, CMacTeX and DirectTeX Pro, with their METAFONTs at the UK or German CTAN sites (the US CTAN is pretty-much defunct): Hope this helps. Alun - -- Dr Alun J. CARR Phone: +353-1-7061989 Mechanical Engineering Dept. +353-1-2693244 x1989 University College Dublin Fax: +353-1-2830534 Belfield E-mail: Dublin 4 WWW: Ireland Return-Path: <@ESDSVR.esd.ray.com:phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:23:54 -1000 To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk From: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu (Amal Phadke) Subject: Re: METAFONT for Macintosh? Cc: tbryan@esd.ray.com > From: Tom Bryan > Date: Fri, 5 Jul 96 10:29:29 PDT > Subject: METAFONT for Macintosh? > > Has anyone had success in running METAFONT on a Macintosh? > > I have a Macintosh PowerBook 5300c, system 7.5. > I am using the public domain METAFONT version 0.66 from the > Bluesky ftp site, and it is not fully operational. > Is there a better METAFONT for Macintosh available? > > Sincerely, > Tom Bryan > > E-Systems, Goleta Division > One South Los Carneros, Goleta, CA 93117-3197, USA > Email: tbryan@esd.ray.com Tel: (805) 967-5511 ext. 2974 > FAX: (805) 964-0470 > Tom: OzTeX 2.0.1, Andrew Trevorrow's Macintosh shareware version of TeX now has its own METAFONT program OzMF. It has worked flawlessly for me so far. OzTeX is available at all CTAN sites under "/tex-archive/systems/mac/oztex" directory. Cheers - --- Amal Phadke Department of Ocean Engineering, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences & Technology University of Hawaii at Manoa 2540 Dole street , Holmes Hall 408B Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Tel: (808) 956-8198 Fax: (808) 956-3498 e-mail: phadke@oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu WWW Page : http://oceaneng.eng.hawaii.edu/~phadke ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest V96 #11 **************************** About TeXhax... 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