Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!blake!lgy 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 Lines: 31 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. -- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet