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Article #6152Re: Is there a "C" version of MetaFont Utilities
From: David Osborne
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 16:35
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1989 16:35
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In article <350@zeus.hf.intel.com> martin@zeus.hf.intel.com (Martin Wilde) writes: >Does anyone know the whereabouts of C versions of the MetaFont >utilities. I am trying to use TeX on a Unix V.3.2 machine and >I don't have the bezerkly pascal compiler..... you need the Web-to-C package, by Tim Morgan and Tomas Rokicki, which generates `special' Pascal from Tangle by using new changefiles ...the Pascal is then translated into C. all the `big' products, like TeX and METAFONT can be translated, and there are Web-to-C changefiles for most of the utilities like Weave, Tangle and the font-handling tools such as GFtoPK, TFtoPL, PLtoTF and so on. i'm using the C versions of all these on this System V.2 machine. Web-to-C has been on the Washington Unix TeX tapes since about May last year, i think. dave. -- David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK (Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064) JANET: d.osborne@uk.ac.nott.clan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!nott-cs!clan!cczdao From: cczdao@clan.clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Is there a "C" version of MetaFont Utilities Summary: use Web-to-C Keywords: gftopxl (what? who uses pxl files these days?) Message-ID: <3260@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk> Date: 18 Mar 89 16:35:52 GMT References: <350@zeus.hf.intel.com> Sender: root@cs.nott.ac.uk Reply-To: cczdao@clan.UUCP (David Osborne) Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, Nottingham University, UK Lines: 21