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From: lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Available software for MIPS?
Summary: Texx2 works ok
Keywords: type-setting, GNUsoftware
Message-ID: <3291@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Aug 89 00:02:27 GMT
References: <845@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <10815@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <10815@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes:

 >I have an M-2000.  I have installed TeX and several dvi->ps drivers
 >without any problems.  I got texx2 to run, but is doesn't work right
 >(many of the characters get randomly placed on the page).  I don't
 >think that it will be too hard to fix when I take a moment.  I have

 >George Hartzell			                  (303) 492-4535
 > MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
 >hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU  ..!{ncar,nbires}!boulder!hartzell

I've installed texx2 on my M/2000 and it seems to work fine, after
working around a compiler problem involving signe extension of
compile time constants.  One header file (the one which defines
macros to putting & getting multi-byte integers) needed an #ifdef mips,
similar to a Sun-specific special case that was already present.
I forget the name of the relevant header file, but it was the
one in the .h directory which the README spcifically directed
one to check in case of problems.  I reported the compiler
problem to MIPS and was told that it was fixed in the 2.1
compilers (which I've not yet received).
Prior to fixing this, I had the same problem that George referred to.
Note that this problem affects not just the texx2 executable, but
also the gftobnf conversion program and the .bnf files it produces.
So after adding the appropriate #ifdef in the source, be sure to
regenerate all the .snf files for TeX fonts.

 
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