From @UICVM.uic.edu:AMANDEL@BRUSP.BITNET Wed Nov 21 07:17:41 1990 Flags: 000000000001 Return-Path: <@UICVM.uic.edu:AMANDEL@BRUSP.BITNET> Received: from UICVM.uic.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0-utah-csc-server) id AA16552; Wed, 21 Nov 90 14:17:35 MST Date: Wed, 21 Nov 90 14:17:35 MST Message-Id: <9011212117.AA16552@math.utah.edu> Received: from BRUSP.BITNET by UICVM.uic.edu (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with BSMTP id 8879; Wed, 21 Nov 90 14:15:32 CST From: Arnaldo Mandel Subject: dvijep problem (and fix). To: beebe@science.utah.edu We have been using dvijep at this Institute for almost two years, and are quite happy with it. It is running on an HP9000/370 , formerly under HPUX 6.5, now under 7.0, and works without a glitch. That is, it used to. I tried recently to use Levy's greek fonts, from the TeX distribution, and was chagrined when a .dvi file which appeared as expected on the screen did not print. After some work I found the problem and a fix for it. It turns out thet Levy's fonts are 256 character fonts, and although your skeletal driver has no problem handling these, the Laserjet+ cannot do it, as its fonts can have at most 192 characters. I made a workaround, which thanks to the extremely good quality of your code, consist of a single additional line. I simply mark, for each font, a range of the characters to be bitmapped. There is a diff at the end of the message. While this probably works always, it can become a big inconvenience now that 256 character fonts will become standard (as I gather from Texhax). In that case, it would probably be a better policy saving some of HP's font handles to be used as blocks of "quarter-fonts". That would require some restructuring of the driver, and likely a better solution will occur to you. So, I hope you are willing to add "support for 256 character fonts in dvijep" to your "to-do" list. Anyway, thank you for producing such an invaluable tool for our everyday work Arnaldo *** dvijep.c.orig Mon Nov 19 18:52:36 1990 --- dvijep.c Mon Nov 19 18:58:29 1990 *************** *** 599,604 **** --- 599,605 ---- cell_height = 1 + fontptr->ch[the_char].yoffp + char_below; fontptr->ch[the_char].isloaded = FALSE; fontptr->ch[the_char].istoobig = (BOOLEAN)( + IN(128,the_char,191) :: /* kludge for large fonts (am) */ !IN(-128,-fontptr->ch[the_char].xoffp,127) :: !IN(-128, fontptr->ch[the_char].yoffp,127) :: !IN(1,fontptr->ch[the_char].wp,255) :: ********************************************************************** Arnaldo Mandel . MAC-IMEUSP . amandel@brusp.bitnet Cx. P. 20.570 . amandel@brusp.ansp.br 01458 - Sao Paulo - SP . Brazil . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MAC-IMEUSP is a strange acronym (in bureaucratyc Portuguese) for: Department of Computer Science Institute for Mathematics and Statistics University of S\~{a}o Paulo **********************************************************************