[154] in Release_7.7_team
Re: misc latex questions, for lack of a better place
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Tue Aug 16 16:45:57 1994
To: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-77@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To:
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:45:40 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
> Have the font names for LaTeX changed? Some of the consultants seem to
> be solving some people's problems by suggesting that they make changes
> in the names of the font (like from "newcen" to "ncs"). If so, is
> there a list of the old and new names anywhere?
I'm pretty sure that at least a couple of the names changed (timrom and
newcen), but other than that, I don't know.
>
>
> Does anyone know if a TEXFONTS environment variable needs to be
> changed? I've seen people say that people need to put a : at the end
> of that too; is that true?
I don't know. Chad is probably the person here who knows the most about
the new configuration.
>
> And what about xdvi? Does anyone know if the xdvi in the sipb locker
> is still supposed to work? I've seen quite a few questions about xdvi
> not working; it usually turned out that people were using the sipb
> version and having them use the standard one worked better. I don't
> know if there is an actual bug or if it's just kind of a yrrej reztlas
> problem. If I knew for sure I'd send it a bug report somewhere, but
> I'd like to know if anyone else knew of any problems.
To the best of my knowledge, the sipb xdvi is broken and it's been
reported to them. At least, I believe that I reported it.
Sorry I can't be more helpful,
dot
