[158] in Release_7.7_team
Re: misc latex questions, for lack of a better place
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Wed Aug 17 17:02:18 1994
To: yandros@MIT.EDU, release-77@MIT.EDU
Cc: olc-stock@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 17:02:14 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
Hi! Thanks for the info, Chad, and for fixing all the sipb stuff. I
still have a few questions, though.
>>Yes, these changed from dvi2ps-style to dvips-style. If you were
>>using dvips-style before, they should all be fine.
A lot of people weren't using dvips-style before. Buried in our long
dvips answer it says:
Old style New style Font family
==================================================
timrom times Times
newcen ncs New Century Schoolbook
avantgarde Avant-Garde
bookman Bookman
palatino new-pal * Palatino
I'll be copying it to a more prominent location in the stock answers.
Is that something that should be included in the Release Notes also?
>>Well, that Chad guy is often off in left field, but I think he's right
>>on this one. :-) I sent in a medium-sized explanation to testers in
>>respone to the first draft release notes; the short form is:
>>
>> The files are now in subdirs of /usr/athena/lib/tex/macros. To get
>> various tex things to search these subdirs, you need to either:
>>
>> o tell it to search the subdirs, I believe by adding an extra
>> slash to the end of the path specification. I haven't tested
>> this; this is something bert told me.
>>
>> o tell it to include the standard include path, specified via a
>> blank path element. The most common usage is to append these
>> defaults to the end of the search path by appending a colon to
>> the end of the TEXINPUTS.
That fixes TEXFONTS too? I dug through the last 100 transactions in
testers and only found one mention of TEXFONTS, in a message from Jake
Wetzel [2673]. He solved his problem by removing the TEXINPUTS and
TEXFONTS variables entirely. Is that the general solution? Will
sticking a : at the end of it fix it too?
Thanks,
Carla
