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Article #787Re: catdvi (yes, it exists)/ inserting fonts into troff, how?
From: William LeFebvre
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 06:18
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1986 06:18
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> > Does anyone have a program that converts from troff `cat' phototypesetter > > output to dvi file? I need such a beast desperately. Thanks... > We have one that came from Imagen. They claim it is no longer a > distributed product so they might be willing to give it away. Wait a minute. Don't get fooled by nomenclature. The catdvi program that Imagen distributes converts cat files to DVI version 1. That was the format produced by the ancient TeX 78. The current TeX, TeX 82 produces DVI version 2 files. These two formats are COMPLETELY INCOMPATIBLE! The dviimp program that Imagen distributes with its 4.2 software also only understands DVI version 1. Now don't get Imagen's dviimp confused with the dviimp on the TeX distribution tape, which (to my knowledge) only understands DVI version 2! Confused yet? -- William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.edu>
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!soma!rice!phil From: phil@rice.EDU (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: catdvi (yes, it exists)/ inserting fonts into troff, how? Message-ID: <155@dione.rice.EDU> Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 01:18:17 EST Article-I.D.: dione.155 Posted: Mon Feb 17 01:18:17 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Feb-86 18:55:44 EST References: <558@stride.stride.UUCP> <146@nbs-amrf.UUCP> Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 22 Summary: There are two diffrent DVI formats!