Using TrueType fonts with TeX

2003-01-10 Thread anthony caskey
Mr. Rebbechi: My name is Tony Caskey. I am emailing you from Dalian, China. I am an American who teaches English here, but I hope to be a business writer here soon. I have a little downtown here this year so I am expanding my knowledge of computers. I brought a copy of Redhat Linux 7.3 with

How do I find my metafonts for TeX? Where are language fonts kept?

2003-01-09 Thread anthony caskey
Hi everyone: I am trying to get TeX to work with simplified Chinese characters. The Chinese HOWTO on the web says that I should set the $TEXMF environment variable to something like /usr/lib/texmf. I have created this subdirectory and environment variable. But when I try to use TeX after modi

failed dependencies when installing ...

2003-01-07 Thread anthony caskey
Mr. Bailes: Your advice worked perfectly. Thank you much. Sincerely, Tony Caskey _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe m

Help transferring Mozilla Bookmarts to root account

2003-01-07 Thread anthony caskey
Dear Everyone: I am a newbie to RedHat Linux, but I am taking the experts' advice: I log on as root only when necessary. Because of this, my Mozilla bookmarks in my user account are quite extensive, but my bookmarks in my root account are few in number. How can I transfer my bookmarks from m

failed dependencies while trying to install with RPM

2003-01-07 Thread anthony caskey
Dear everybody: I have tried to install tetex-xdvi... from both the web and from disk. Either way, I get the error: error: failed dependencies: Then RPM lists about 22 libraries upon which xdvi is dependent. Is there a switch I can add to rpm -i so the libraries upon which xdvi is dependent

Thank you for solving simple TeX problem

2003-01-07 Thread anthony caskey
Dear Mr. Byers, Saltzman and Pasquale: All of you offered me invaluable advice on how to solve my problem of not being able to print a TeX file. Mr. Byers explained to me how things should work. Both Messrs. Saltzman and Pasquale pointed out that I needed to install dvips and pointed me in the

eth0 is not bringing up

2003-01-06 Thread anthony caskey
Gihas: My name is Tony Caskey. I am rather new to Linux, but if your ethernet card is attached to an ADSL modem, perhaps I can help you. With the help of a Mr. Neil Ablong of the Philipines, I figured out how to get eth0 and pppOe going not long ago. For the ethernet device, I set it up to a

Printing a simple TeX file

2003-01-06 Thread anthony caskey
PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Printing a simple TeX file Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, anthony caskey wrote: Did I make a mistake installing Redhat 7.3? While TeX and other TeX utilities are in my /usr/bin directory, dvips is not. Where did I go wrong? What's the output of 

RE: Printing a simple TeX file

2003-01-05 Thread anthony caskey
Did I make a mistake installing Redhat 7.3? While TeX and other TeX utilities are in my /usr/bin directory, dvips is not. Where did I go wrong? Thanks. Tony Jack Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] do man dvips if your default printer is setup then just dvips xxx.dvi should do it you can put

Printing a simple TeX file

2003-01-05 Thread anthony caskey
Dear everyone: I am trying to print a simple Tex file with the Romanized pronunciations of Chinese syllables. 1) In a directory I have a file called cprimer.tex (Chinese Primer). The file has the following contents: xi\'an z\'ai\&\&now \bye 2) At the user prompt I type: tex cprimer.tex T

Printing Chinese Characters

2003-01-03 Thread anthony caskey
Dear List Members: I am becoming aquainted with Emacs. I figured out how to enter Chinese characters in the editor. However, I cannot get the Chinese characters to print correctly on my cheap Epson Stylus C41SX, regardless if I try to print it in PostScript or not. A long time ago I remember