========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 11:49:19 MSZ Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: XITIJSCH@DDATHD21.BITNET >From schrod Fri Jul 26 19:21:37 1991 remote from itipcs2 Subject: Report on the last year To: driv-l@tamvm1 (driver standards discussion) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 91 19:21:37 MSZ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] The TUG Board of Directory (in person of barbara beeton) asked me if I could provide a report on the committee activities of the last year. I agreed, read all driv-l backlogs (ca. 750 KB, umpf :-( ), and wrote such a beast. The report may be fetched by anonymous ftp from ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.22.63], file pub/tex/dvi-standard/papers/report-9106-board.tex Bitnet users might want to wait another fourthnight, I'll install it on the Listserver in Heidelberg. (You may start sending me reminders on August, 10. ;-) IMO, the most interesting part of the paper is the announcement of a new ftp server, where the standards stuff is completely available. I've appended this announcement at the end of this mail. While I'm at it: Looking over the backlog I realized that (too many) postings concerning the level-0 standard were not looked at. I have now read the backlog a second time and repaired the smaller stuff (typos, etc.). Postings concerning inconsistencies or ``holes'' will be summarized by me (real soon now). In the moment I'm in close contact with barbara, the draft will be published in the following-the-next issue of TUGboat -- we *must* make a step forward. (The next issue is the proceedings, but perhaps it might be include there?!) Further announcements will appear next week, stay tuned! :-) -- Joachim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet Secretary of TUG DVI standards committee ---------------- snip snap ---------------------------------------- \subsection{Retrieving Information} The discussion takes place on a Bitnet discussion list, {\tt driv-l@tamvm1.bitnet}. All postings for one month are saved and may be retrieved from the Bitnet listserver (as described in our report of April~1989). \medskip In addition I began to store all information which is available and which seems to be of interest on the anonymous ftp server {\tt ftp.th-darmstadt.de\/} in the directory {\tt /pub/tex/dvi-standard}. In the subdirectory {\tt driv-l\/} all postings to {\tt driv-l\/} are stored -- this is a mirror to the service of the listserver. But there are two more important files there: {\tt Index\/} contains the important topics of each month as one-liners. This will help the retrieval of earlier contributions to the ongoing discussion. In addition {\tt Index.last-three-months\/} is a copy of the last three months of {\tt Index}, such giving a fast access to the last handled topics. The standard texts itself are placed in the subdirectory {\tt standards}, each tier in a single file. Ammendments are stored in this directory, too. For people which have RCS at hand (it's available for free), a corresponding RCS file is stored in the subdirectory {\tt standards/RCS}. This RCS file enables the retrieval of former revisions of this tier. In the subdirectory {\tt papers\/} all reports of the committee will be found. In addition other important papers are stored here (if they are available and redistributable free of charge). Furthermore a \BibTeX{} database with relevant publications on \DVI{} drivers is available there in the file {\tt dvistd.bib}. In the subdirectory {\tt verification\/} the {\tt DVIASM} processor may be found (see page~\pageref{sec:dviasm}). In future, information on a verification suite (a so-called ``trip test'') will be placed here, too. ---------------- snip snap ---------------------------------------- ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 13:07:49 MSZ Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: XITIJSCH@DDATHD21.BITNET Subject: Last mail was: Report on the last year Sorry, but my mail system got me on the wrong foot: The subject line for the former mail has been missing... -- Joachim ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 12:30:26 EDT Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: Karl Berry Subject: ftp archive of DVI standard In-Reply-To: XITIJSCH%DDATHD21.BITNET@tamvm1.tamu.edu's message of Mon, 29 Jul 1991 11:49:19 MSZ <9107290958.AA24875@cs.umb.edu> Thanks for the ftp archive. I have one comment -- perhaps it isn't worth storing the complete draft as a compressed tar file; then people without tar or compress are out of luck. The standard isn't really that big to make compression all that important, is it? karl@cs.umb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 11:46:58 -0500 Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: Stephan Bechtolsheim Subject: Virtual fonts Today for the first time I read the virtual font business (Knuth's article). Question I have: - what's wrong with the idea of writing a dvi->dvi processor which eliminates all the virtual fonts, resulting in a virtual-font-free dvi file? - Does anyone have other references I should read/follow up. Thanks. Your help is appreciated. StvB P.S. I realize that a dvi->dvi file processor would require more CPU time than a driver which does all of this. On ~rthe other hand with the CPU speeds going up exponentially, performance is not such an important issue. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 12:56:18 EDT Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: Karl Berry Subject: Virtual fonts In-Reply-To: Stephan Bechtolsheim's message of Tue, 30 Jul 1991 11:46:58 -0500 <9107301654.AA08861@cs.umb.edu> > Question I have: > - what's wrong with the idea of writing a dvi->dvi processor > which eliminates all the virtual fonts, resulting in a > virtual-font-free dvi file? Nothing. P. Breitenlohner wrote a program dvicopy (in web) to do exactly that. It's part of the Unix web2c distribution, and no doubt others as well. Only disadvantage is that it adds another step to the already-long pipeline. karl@cs.umb.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 15:16:25 MSZ Reply-To: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list Sender: The TUG DVI driver standards discussion list From: XITIJSCH@DDATHD21.BITNET Subject: Re: ftp archive of DVI standard Karl Berry wrote: > Thanks for the ftp archive. I have one comment -- perhaps it isn't > worth storing the complete draft as a compressed tar file; then people > without tar or compress are out of luck. The standard isn't really that > big to make compression all that important, is it? All files are also available outside the archive. The compressed tar file is only there for convenience, for those who don't want to fetch $n$ files and have tar/compress available. To clarify this I have now added an appropriate note to the README file. This note explains which files belong to the standard. In addition I will add more tar and compress versions to the archive. (E.g., I have a GNU tar adaption for MS-DOS which is able to distinguish between text and binary files. And most people have access to some DOS machine somewhere -- (ugly as it is :-) . -- Joachim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Joachim Schrod Email: xitijsch@ddathd21.bitnet Secretary of TUG DVI standards committee