Re: [9fans] docfonts problem

2010-09-12 Thread Russ Cox
do you have the fonts? they do not come with plan9port, because the postscript fonts cannot be redistributed except with plan 9 itself. turns out no.  Here is a sticky question (one I will likely have to write Bigelow Holmes for final clarification), but if I write a script (portage

Re: [9fans] docfonts problem

2010-09-12 Thread EBo
As I said, I would ask Bigelow Holmes for final clarification before releasing anything. I am not trying to dance around the license, but get clarification on what is OK. I have made it a habit of asking people here, and elsewhere, if there they would mind if I do something in a particular

Re: [9fans] docfonts problem

2010-09-12 Thread Russ Cox
Now for the problem behind all this.  I am basically required to use troff for formatting the iwp9 paper submissions.  I have asked repeatedly for the a TeX macros, or the source for an acceptable macro.ms equivalents.  All of these requests have been greeted with silence because someone, and

Re: [9fans] docfonts problem

2010-09-12 Thread EBo
It's just not that hard to use the iwp9 macros with plan9port. They work fine, and if you put .FP luxisans at the top of your ms file you can get a nice-looking BH-designed sans serif font too. And then when you submit the source to them you or they can delete that one line. It's easy.

Re: [9fans] docfonts problem

2010-09-11 Thread Russ Cox
this doesn't work for me either on p9p, but it does work under plan 9.  it's a font problem. do you have the fonts? they do not come with plan9port, because the postscript fonts cannot be redistributed except with plan 9 itself. i believe that if you copy /sys/lib/postscript/font/* to

[9fans] docfonts problem

2010-09-09 Thread erik quanstrom
forwarded ... I thought I had the typesetting correct, but I had not included the macros.  When I do, it completely messes everything up -- like expanding two words and having them type over each other (see attached). I'm running this on plan9port with the command:  9 troff -mpictures