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Date: Sun 19-Feb-1990 03:28:07 From: Unknown Subject: Bugs in dvips and texview Minor dvips and TeXview bugs 1. Landscape mode. Several persons, to whom I express my thanks, have written me to explain that in order to obtain landscape mode using dvips one must use the option "@landscape", NOT "landscape" as stated in the manual pages 2. Path problems. I have discovered an unfortunate anomaly, fortunately easy to fix (which I have done for myself, but which I am not distributing because I believe that the author of these (really excellent) programs should give the standard "fix"): The programs dvips and TeXview both have certain paths "wired-in". These programs look for files with certain special names, using the directories in the path, in the order that they are given. In some cases, these paths start with "." (the current working directory). If you inadvertently have a file of an appropriate name in this directory, then these programs will use it and give most surprising and viciously hard to diagnose results. In particular, TFMPATH is the sequence of directories in which both programs search for a TeX Font Metric file for a font. If you happen to have such a file (not as unlikely as it may seem, if you've been working with them), then surprising results will occur, as they did to me, when I was testing the new Adobe fonts (from the Font-Plus package) with TeX. (Incidentally, they work very nicely and they include valid afm files for Helvetica-Narrow as well as the nicer font Compressed-Helvetica.) TFMPATH is set to .:/LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/tfm:/usr/lib/tex/fonts/tfm Other paths beginning with "." are CONFIGPATH initially set to .:/usr/lib/tex/ps and (in dvips only) HEADERPATH set to .:/usr/lib/tex/ps . In addition, the paths PKPATH=.:/LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/pk:/usr/lib/tex/fonts/pk and TFMPATH=.:/LocalLibrary/Fonts/TeXFonts/tfm:/usr/lib/tex/fonts/tfm also begin with ".". But they can be overriden by the environmental variables TEXPKS and TEXFONTS, respectively. 3. "Aliasing" postscript font names. The section "More about dvips" on page 4 of the Version 1.0 Release Notes, for TeX and Metafont state, as an example, that to use the alias name t-rom for the Times-Roman font, you should create a TFM file with the name t-rom.tfm and put a line of the form Times-Roman t-rom in the file /usr/lib/tex/ps/ps.map. Unfortunately, this is reversed and the line should be t-rom Times-Roman with the alias coming first and the exact postscript font name coming second, separated from the alias by one or more blanks. In the file /usr/lib/tex/fonts/tfm one should create the file t-rom.tfm by the command ln Times-Roman.tfm t-rom.tfm. This, with the apropriate modifications, must be done for each postscript font which is to be aliased. dgc David G. Cantor Department of Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles >From: feldman@umd5.umd.edu (Mark Feldman)
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