Re: yandytex

["George N. White III" <WhiteG@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

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
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.

> [...]
> 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.

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George N. White III <gnw3@acm.org> Bedford Institute of Oceanography