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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- From: gtoal@cursci.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!cursci.demon.co.uk!gtoal
- Subject: TeX/Wimp/Morley SCSIFS/keyboardhandler
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- References: <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Organization: Current Drugs
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:08:42 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
- >1. Is it possible to modify TeX so, that it uses the Risc OS
- > outline fonts ? I want to be able to convert a TeX file to
- > something readable without needing the whole TeX font set as
- > it takes up lots of space.
-
- Yes, have you got a lot of TeX experience and two months spare?
-
- You have to effectively turn TeX into a postscript version of TeX (actually,
- it's worse than that because you don't have the full postscript font
- layout - you have to turn TeX into an ISO8859/1 version of TeX) which
- will take you a month, even starting with something like PSLatex,
- then you'll have to modify the previewer. This is actually the easier
- bit because the previewer already uses native fonts (the approach I took
- was to convert the TeX fonts to RiscOS rather than use a traditional
- TeX bitmapped previewer). You'll have to hack a IntMetrics->tfm
- converter too. But it can be done. I'd say two weeks if you're keen.
-
- Good luck.
-
- Graham
- PS Don't ask me for help. The sources you need are all out there; anything
- else I may have had is now gone.
-