🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <2979@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.UUCP (Mike Whitbeck) writes:
>In article <1158@accuvax.nwu.edu> phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>|In article <2974@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.UUCP (Mike Whitbeck) writes:
>|>HELP! I need amssmc40.300pk to print out pictex.dvi !
>|
>|The contents of pictex.dvi are copyrighted and you almost certainly do
>|not have the rights to reproduce that document.  I would strongly
>
>cool down Bill!

Sorry if it came out too strong.

I thought there was a font in the CM series that you could substitute,
so after typing in that message I was going to add the information to
the end.  I thought it would have made an interesting counterpoint:
"don't do it, but here's how to do it anyway."  Unfortunately, I never
found the font I was looking for and for some weird reason decided to
send the message anyway.  Isn't there a 40 point cmss font?  I sure
thought there was.

>The pictex.dvi came in an archived TeX distribution with a
>README  stating that the instructions were distributed only as
>the dvi file.

One of the first distributions of PicTeX "accidentally" included the
DVI file.  It was quickly followed by a plea that everyone who had
gotten copies of that tar file to please remove the dvi file.  I know
because we got such a distribution (via FTP) way back when....

I thought that the author's intent was to make the TeX source freely
redistributable (thus any document using PicTeX could be easily
reproduced at any site simply by obtaining a free copy of the TeX
macros) but that the documentation would cost money.

>This implied to me that the dvi file was supposed
>to be there--...

Yes, I admit it can be confusing.  How recently did you get this
copy (and from whom?)?

>In the meanwhile, lacking the appropriate missing font, I do
>intend to order the manual from TUG or to delete both pictex.tex
>and pictex.dvi from my directory- I'm no pirate.

In all honesty, it's probably not that big of a deal.......

		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>