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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: TeX on a 2700, write-white vs. write-black and metafont ?
Message-ID: <187@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 06:50:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 12 06:50:48 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 20:13:10 EST
Reply-To: cudcv@daisy.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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I finally got my dvi->2700 driver working, but the fonts I get from converting
the TeX cm* fonts to 2700 format are really weedy.  Looking at them shows they
often have lines only one pixel wide, and this just doesn't work very well on
the 2700.  I assume this is a write-white vs. write-black problem, so
that's my first question - Am I right ?

Now, I have all the metafont input to these fonts, so I'm thinking it must
be possible to produce some more appropriate fonts.  I would hate to spend
weeks wading through the sources tweaking this parameter and that, only to
find I could have put a "write_white:" statement at the top of one of the
files, so my next question is - How do I tell metafont to produce thicker
characters ?  (Assume I know nothing about metafont in your answers - this
is pretty close to the truth).

Thanks in anticipation.
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