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Re: 8.3 latex packages, dvips, metafonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed May 19 16:21:37 1999
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jamie Morris <jemorris@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, bug-template@MIT.EDU
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 19 May 1999 16:21:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 15:18:42 -0400"
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<ghudson@MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> 1. dvips is using a default resolution of 540dpi.
>
> 2. MakeTeXPK wants to write its fonts to some directory under
> /common.
The "540" is because Jamie used \small. You don't see this lossage
with newtex because it contains a more useful set of prebuilt fonts.
(It also has MakeTeXPK symlinked to /bin/false so that it will fail
quickly for missing fonts.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
