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In article <10173@duke.cs.duke.edu> crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) writes:
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|I keep running into font problems that I can't figure out from the
|documentation (I guess I've got to buy the canonical 5-book set
|someday.)   I'd appreciate any advice on the following:
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|1. I regularly run into a problem where fonts in unusual sizes are not
|available, e.g. today when someone wanted amss10.3110pxl.  How can I get
|fonts at particular sizes when they are not part of the distribution?

Bring up METAFONT and generate all the sizes you need.

|2. Space for the fonts is getting a little tight here, in part because
|we need both 118-pixel fonts and 300-pixel fonts.   We have both Imagens
|and Laserwriters around.
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|2.1  Is there a PK-form (or other compressed form) driver available for
|the Imagen?

Yes, Nelson Beebe's driver supports PK fonts on a variety of printers,
including Imagen. Ftp anonymous to science.utah.edu, cd aps:<tex.dvi>.

|2.2  While we're on the subject, how about an imagen driver that
|includes options to print only selected pages?  The one we have does
|not. 

Has this feature. Also look at dviselect if you have Unix TeX.

|3.  We now have a bunch of Macs and several Mac II's available here.  We
|are doing a lot of illustrations with them.  What is the best way to
|include the illos and diagrams into TeX and LaTeX using either
|LaserWriter or Imagen?

The PostScript version of the driver can include PostScript generated
elsewhere. Some PS prologue needs to be included. There are a bunch of
DVI to PS drivers available that will make this easier. See my answer to
4.

|3.1  In particular, can someone tell me about whatever special magic (or
|\special magic) is needed to put arbitrary PostScript stuff into the
|middle of a TeX file to be printed on a laserwriter?

It depends on the PostScript you are trying to include. Mac generated
documents require a prologue called MacPrep. Tpic documents require a
prologue to define procedures to draw elipses, splines, etc.

|4.  Is TeXHaX being mailed out any more?  I no longer get them, and have
|not been getting them for a couple of months at least.

Yes, it is going strong and this is you best place to get more detailed
answers. The address to get added is texhax-request@score.stanford.edu.
There are many people on the list who know more than I do about these
matters.

	Ken