Re: TeX on a 2700, write-white vs. write-black and metafont ?

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From: Rob McMahon
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1986 09:50

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In article <187@sol.warwick.ac.uk> I write:
><munch>
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>I finally got my dvi->2700 driver working, but the fonts I get from converting
>the TeX cm* fonts to 2700 format are really weedy.
>
...
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>Now, I have all the metafont input to these fonts, so I'm thinking it must
>be possible to produce some more appropriate fonts.

Well thanks to Nelson H.F. Beebe <Beebe@arpa.utah-science> and
particularly to Karl Berry <kbb%edu.brown.cs@relay.cs.net>, and having
R'dTFS&M I find that when you make Metafont, you really ought to add a
local changes file on the end of the plain base (i.e. ** plain ; input
local ; dump ; end), an example of which lives in waits.mf.  This
defines modes which describe your output devices.  I used the qms mode,
and this seems a fair first approximation.

When you install TeX, it seems you shouldn't just accept the pk/pxl
files supplied, but you really should install metafont at the same
time, and make up a set of fonts appropriate to your output device.

It seems a shame that neither the TeX, nor the Metafont installation
instructions point you in this direction, but you either have to read
the Metafont book, or the sources to plain.base.

If anyone has any accurate values for 'blacker', 'fillin', and
'o_correction' for a Xerox 2700 I'd appreciate seeing them.

        Rob
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Subject: Re: TeX on a 2700, write-white vs. write-black and metafont ?
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Date: Tue, 16-Dec-86 04:50:16 EST
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