Date: 22 May 86 08:31 EDT From: Harry Bovik (C410HB00) To: Harry.Bovik@A.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Scribe & the Laserwriter Message-Id: <22May86.083143.HB00@A.CS.CMU.EDU> [scribe] 07-Apr-86 16:48 Mike.Blackwell Legal sized paper in LaserWriter From: Mike.Blackwell@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU The library in /../rv/usr/mkb/lib/lwlega.lib allows Scribe to produce LaserWriter output for legal sized paper (14 inches long) - great for most conference proceedings! There are two library calls, depending on how the legal paper is fed. The syntax is: @Use(Database "/../rv/usr/mkb/lib") @LibraryFile(LWLegalManFeed) -or- @LibraryFile(LWLegalCartFeed) Where the first is if you need to manually feed the paper, and the second if you have a legal sized cartridge. Note that this library modifies the device initialization string, so it will be incompatible with other libraries that work the same way (accent.lib, pagegr.lib, or the MacDraw device). If you need to use more than one of these libraries and can't figure out how to merge them, contact me and I'll show you how. 08-Apr-86 11:43 Mike.Blackwell Using the LaserWriter From: Mike.Blackwell@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU After I wrote this, I thought that it might be useful to others... ---------- Date: 8 Apr 1986 11:05-EST From: Mike.Blackwell@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU To: Luiz.Leao@H.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Re: Legal sized paper in LaserWriter Message-Id: <513360302/mkb@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU> In-Reply-To: Luiz.Leao's mail message of 8 Apr 1986 10:18-EST Hi - I've done a lot of LaserWriter/Scribe hacking, and I think I can answer all of your questions... Acentuation - Look in /../rv/usr/mkb/lib - there are several files that deal with this, all beginning with the letter "a" (accent.lib, accent.raw, atimes.fon, etc) Look in accent.mail for a little bit of documentation, and the file atest.mss, which is an example of it all in action. I think you can say @Use(Database "/../rv/usr/mkb/lib") to access these files without having to copy them into your own directory. Note that you can't use lwlega.lib and accent.lib in the same document, as I mentioned in my post, without doing a little more hacking. Fonts - With the standard LW, there are only four fonts families, Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. If you have a LW+, you get a bunch more fonts, like Century-Schoolbook, Bookman and Zapf, but currently there is no Scribe support for these fonts (also no support for Symbol). I'm working on this - as soon as I have time, I'll get it all working, and make a post. Merging figures in Scribe - this depends on how the figures were created. If you have a real PostScript description of the figure (created by hand, or with some post-processor (which exist to convert from DP, Unix plot, various *roff, and some other formats)) in some file called file.PS, then all you have to do is determine how high the figure is, and use: @Picture(Height = xx inches, ScalebleLaser = file.PS) If you want to use figures created on the Macintosh (MacDraw, MacPaint, or anything else that can print on the LW), then the process is a little more involved. First, on the Mac, you must create a Mac-PostScript file from the figure (note that the figure can only occupy one page). To do this, select "Print" from the application, just like you were going to print it on the LW, but then hold down the Command-F (for File) to create a PostScript file instead. This will create a file named "PostScript". Use your favorite method to transfer this file to the Vax (macget, Kermit, or whatever). To insert this figure in Scribe, you must use @Device(MacPostScript) (instead of PostScript), and again, use the @Picture() command to insert the figure. Hope this helps! (More than you probably wanted to know, but oh well...) If you run in to any problems, just let me know. cheers, -m- 14-Apr-86 16:15 Mike.Blackwell LaserWriter Plus fonts From: Mike.Blackwell@ROVER.RI.CMU.EDU I have the .fon and .raw font definitions for the following new LW+ fonts, courtesy of Walt Haas at Utah: AvantGarde, Bookman, NewCenturySchoolbook, and Palatino. I also have the definitions for HelveticaNarrow, but it needs to be merged with the Helvetica definition in the Scribe database, unless I change its name, and I haven't decided what to do yet. @Use(Database "/../rover/usr/mkb/lib") should do the trick for accessing them. Then just use @Style(Fontfamily = Palatino), or whatever. 07-May-86 18:03 Mike.Blackwell Landscape output on Laserwriter From: Mike.Blackwell@rover.ri.cmu.edu The library in /../rv/usr/mkb/lib/landsc.lib is a quick hack for producing landscape oriented output for PostScript printers (like LaserWriters). @Use(Databse "/../rv/usr/mkb/lib") @Device(PostScript) @LibraryFile(Landscape) will do the trick.