UKTeX Digest Friday, 17 Dec 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 40 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Questions & Answers}: RE: Mac archive tools oztex 1.6 DVIPS under MSDOS Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 15:07:20 -0500 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: RE: Mac archive tools In UKTeX Digest V93 #39, Dean Ayres posted: > After a change of fortunes I find myself wanting to use TeX on the > Macintosh. > > I looked at the OzTeX directory in the archive, and see that a tool > (stuffit?) has been used. Is there anywhere I can get hold of executable > versions of this tool? I couldn't find any in the archive. Also, I'm a bit > concerned that some other tool has also been used. Any ideas? Use anonymous ftp to any of the CTAN hosts (ftp.tex.ac.uk in the UK) and the sources are available in tools/stuffit/ in its TeX archive area. To the best of my knowledge, we do not presently have an executable for this available in the CTAN. Regards, George (U.S. CTAN coordinator on ftp.SHSU.edu) George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 17:57:00 +0000 From: A.CAMINA "A.CAMINA " Subject: oztex 1.6 can ayone help? I have just loaded Oztex 1.6 on my mac. In the past, using 1.4, I have used some AMS fonts. This has worked by putting the appropriate tfm files in the Latex font folder. An equivalent trick does not seem to work. I just get the fonts can't be loaded!!! Alan Camina ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 15:12:04 +0000 From: john@uk.ac.glasgow.maths Subject: DVIPS under MSDOS We have been using METAFONT to produce figures (e.g. graphs of functions) and this works fine up to a point. The problem comes when using DVIPS to create a Postscript file for printing. Unfortunately, under MSDOS, DVIPS gives then error message Cannot allocate more than 64K! when it tries to convert any file with such `graphical' fonts---presumably it is because each character is too large. There are good reasons why we want to create Postscript rather than any other format (e.g. for a HP laserjet) and we are stuck with MSDOS. Can anybody suggest any remedies in terms of alternative DVI to PS converters which do not have the memory allocation restiction, or ways to work round the problem using DVIPS (which is otherwise excellent). 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