At 12:50 PM 8/27/2001 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > yandytex is just tex, but with dynamic memory allocation; long ago it
> > wasthe only big tex along with hugeemtex, but nowadays there is no need for
> > bying a tex any more since there is web2c and miktex, which are both big
> > and fast. Furthermore, yandytex does not produce pdf output. the dvi to ps
> > backend of yandy is one of the best there is and may be worth bying if you
> > want to produce ps or go from ps to pdf; but i must admit that i always use
> > pdftex today; also dvipsone does only run on windows and does not support
> > virtual fonts
>
>Dvipsone is excellent and works well with Adobe Acrobat. Y&Y's dvi viewer
indeed, dvipsone is pretty good,
we used to use dviwindo too, as well as dvipsone with acrobat, although
previous versions of pdfmarks had limitations; i did quite some development
on interactive dcs using dviwindo; interestingly it took a while before
dviwindo/acrobat both had page/named dest which is one reason why context
supports both.
>is also excellent. You can cut and paste from the viewer into other
>applications and you get fully scalable WMF using the Type 1 fonts (e.g.,
>via ATM). The viewer will highlight glyphs from a particular font (chosen
>from a pull-down list of fonts used in a document). If you want to use
>vf's you can use dvicopy, but Y&Y also has tools to manipulate Type 1
>fonts. These can be used to do some of the things that would otherwise
>require vf's, and the resulting fonts work (via ATM) in other Windows
>apps.
right, but somehow i feel uncomfortable with manipulating the pfb and
keeping the name unchanged; this is ok for english, but on systems meant
for euopean languages myltiple encidings may be in effect
> > [...]
> > so, unless you need very special features present in vtex, you can stick to
> > pdfetex+context; in any case, it may be worth looking into some of the
> > yandy [lucida,mathtimes] and.or vtex [times,helvetica,informal,...] fonts
>
>AFAIK, margin kerning is only available in pdftex.
as well as hz optimization
[there are a couple of more, like position tracking but this can be handled
in dvi too, but less comfortable]
Hans
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