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Article #721Re: tfm --> mf backconversion?
From: A Wooden Fish on Wheels
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 12:40
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 12:40
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In article <..> bhm@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Bruce H. McIntosh) writes:
Does anyone know of the existence of a utility that can take a .tfm
file and derive metafont source from it? The reason I'm asking is this:
... (And
to head off the obvious question, I don't have dvips and was not looking
forward to having to get it, as I'd *then* have to implement Ghostscript,
and even 160mb of hard disk only goes so far! :-) )
I know it's an obvious answer, but dvips and ghostscript managed to fit
themselves into one small corner of my hard disk, and it's only 135MB.
Bruce H. McIntosh bhm@cis.ufl.edu Jesus has risen!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you're looking to turn .tfm into .mf, he might be your best bet :-)
Jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ox-prg!culhua!Jim.Davies From: Jim.Davies@prg.ox.ac.uk (A Wooden Fish on Wheels) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: tfm --> mf backconversion? Message-ID: <JIM.DAVIES.92Aug4134042@pierrot.prg.ox.ac.uk> Date: 4 Aug 92 12:40:42 GMT References: <36656@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> Sender: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk Organization: Foundations for the Laboratory of Computer Science, Oxford Lines: 22 In-reply-to: bhm@reef.cis.ufl.edu's message of 4 Aug 92 01:18:30 GMT