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In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:

>4. Has anyone noticed this "bug" in the Morley SCSIFS :
>   When clicking on the iconbar icon the root filer window is opened as
>   usual, but as a side-effect, the current directory is reset to the root.
>   This is very annoying, in particular when running a Task Window which
>   is processing files without full pathnames.
>
>   Morley claims that the drive must be mounted each time the user clicks
>   on the iconbar.  But ADFS doesn't mount the disc...
>   Can anyone shed some light on this.  Is the behaviour of the Morley card
>   normal ?
It's the way morley do it - obviously they execute a dir or similar command
to mount the disk, whereas the best way of causing filecore to mount the
disk but not set the CSD is to do something like read the attributes of
the $ directory object (what our filers do). I didn't know the morley
software did it, I'll shout at Gary today, I have to call him anyway....

>5. Does anyone know how to write an international keyboardhandler ?
I believe acorn released something like !IKHG which was a complete set
of utils to build keyboardhandlers. Acorn?

>
>Simon Baas
>mp17@rulhp2.LeidenUniv.nl

Hugo

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In article <1992Dec16.101159.26305@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
>1. Is it possible to modify TeX so, that it uses the Risc OS
>   outline fonts ? I want to be able to convert a TeX file to
>   something readable without needing the whole TeX font set as
>   it takes up lots of space.

Yes, have you got a lot of TeX experience and two months spare?

You have to effectively turn TeX into a postscript version of TeX (actually,
it's worse than that because you don't have the full postscript font
layout - you have to turn TeX into an ISO8859/1 version of TeX) which
will take you a month, even starting with something like PSLatex,
then you'll have to modify the previewer.  This is actually the easier
bit because the previewer already uses native fonts (the approach I took
was to convert the TeX fonts to RiscOS rather than use a traditional
TeX bitmapped previewer).  You'll have to hack a IntMetrics->tfm
converter too.  But it can be done.  I'd say two weeks if you're keen.

Good luck.

Graham
PS Don't ask me for help.  The sources you need are all out there; anything
else I may have had is now gone.