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Conference vaxuum::document_ft

Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

492.0. "Can duplicate fonts be deleted?" by COOKIE::JOHNSTON () Wed Jun 10 1987 20:55

We have TeX, LATeX, and DOCUMENT on our cluster.  As a result, there are many
fonts that seem to be duplicated.  Are the fonts, in fact, duplicates?  Or are
we free to purge and expect no problems? 

I am not familiar with dependency issues (if any) about fonts and the programs
that call them.  But I'd sure like to free up some disk space.  

Any info is appreciated, including good questions to answer before making a 
decision to purge.


Thanx

Rose
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492.1TOKLAS::FELDMANPDS, our next successThu Jun 11 1987 00:098
    In addition, is it feasible to get LaTeX to work with the version
    of TeX embedded in Document?  Not that I dislike Document, but there
    are still times when I need to compile some LaTeX files (and my
    VAXstation is short on disk space).
    
    My guess is that this might be a task for a wizard with spare time.
    
       Gary
492.2no, and noCLOSET::ANKLAMThu Jun 11 1987 13:018
    
    I suspect that the TeX and LaTeX fonts are duplicates (you can DIF
    to find out). DOCUMENT's fonts are different (they have the full
    DEC multinational character set, for one thing.)
    
    I don't think it's possible to combine LaTeX and DECTeX macros.
492.3CLOSET::ADLERThu Jun 11 1987 13:1720
RE: Fonts

The problem here is that these programs (DOCUMENT included) each expect
to find the fonts in a specific directory, pointed to by a variety of
logical names (TEX$FONTS for TeX and LaTeX, DOC$*_FONTS for DOCUMENT).
I suppose you could point all of the logicals to one directory, dump the
contents of each separate directory into that one directory, and purge
duplicate filenames, but you'd have an awful lot of fonts in that one
directory ( and even then I don't guarantee that it would work, as this
answer is off the top of my head).

RE: LaTeX

Do you mean that you want to be able to process your LaTeX files through
DOCUMENT to get LaTeX output? I don't think that's easily possible, because the
format file for LaTeX is intimately tied to the version of TeX that it 
was created for. We've made extensive modifications to TeX's data structures,
so I doubt very much that LPLAIN.FMT would work with our version of TeX.

--Brian