[4250] in SIPB bug reports
Re: tex fonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Wed Nov 17 16:41:37 1993
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 16:40:20 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: jh@MIT.EDU
Cc: ckclark@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 17 Nov 93 16:33:41 -0500.
<9311172133.AA04602@oobleck.mit.edu>
> ah, i was using athena. but the sipb version doesn't produce anything
> at all there! just a blank space. i suppose that's better than
> crashing. is there any chance of getting the previewer font to look
> more like the real output, or is this too much to do for the benefit
> gained?
Xdvi does not have any explicit PostScript support, so it's not going to
look good no matter what. By the way, for the time it takes to run xdvi
on a dvi file referencing PS fonts, you can probably create a PostScript
file of you document and preview it with a PostScript previewer like gs
or ghostview (in outland) or dxpsview (if you are on a DECstation.) It
is my opinion that xdvi should only be used if TeX fonts are used, and
if manages not to crash when you use PostScript fonts instead, it's
doing the best it can be asked to.
-Calvin
