Re: times.sty and xdvi

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From: Bruno Hall
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 00:32

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hong@cithe501.cithep.caltech.edu.UUCP (John Hong) writes:

>I am able to use Thomas Rokicki's "times.sty" and "dvips" to generate my
>LaTex documents with PostScript fonts.  However the success is limited
>to the generation of the postscript file; I am no longer able to use
>"xdvi" to preview the .dvi files generated with times.sty.  It complains
>that it can not find the PS fonts.  Does anybody have a solution to this
>problem ?

Hmm.  It (xdvi) shouldn't be looking for PS fonts.  Your environment
variable XDVIFONTS should look something like this:

 /local/tex/lib/fonts/pk:/tmp/pk

If memory serves, xdvi-1? (where ? < 4) does not support virtual
fonts.  Here I'm running dvips-5474 and xdvi-14, and it works just
fine.

Bruno
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