Hi All!
Downloaded the scsh.tar.gz, within which is scsh-0.4.2.
This isn't so much a problem with scsh, which I haven't tried to
install, but with the scsh-paper{.ps,.tex}.
I printed out the scsh-paper.ps on my NeXTStation running 3.2, and the
result I got was readable, but only barely. It looks like a fine
document that someone then attacked with a random space generator.
I'm assuming it's a font problem of somekind. The little C blurb in
the box looks just fine, but the rest is a mess.
I first thought it was because I threw it through 'psnups' to get a
2:1 printout, but after printing the first couple of pages at
fullsize, I noticed it still looked garbled.
For example, when the line reads like this in the text.
ins tead itlo oks like th isw hen you readt he tex t.
Yeah, it's readable, but it's quite a study.
In the .ps file, it is rendered at 600dpi, while my printer is 400dpi
-- but I don't think that is the problem.
"No problem", I thought, because you folks kindly supplied the raw
.TeX files. So, I double clicked scsh-paper.tex to fire up TeXView on
my NeXT, and ...oops... it didn't work. The NeXT is supposed to be a
pretty nice TeX platform, so I was kinda hoping it would "just work".
I am far from a TeXpert, I'm lucky I can spell it. But TeXView seems
to think something is missing (code.sty to be specific). I tried just
feeding it to TeXView, I tried compiling it with the LaTex option, but
I got the same result.
I'm guessing that somehow the main text font is being substituted
automagically to a font that I have, but I was confused because I
though TeX rendered its own fonts. It seems to be forcing the Courier
font into a proportional font. This leads me to think that when you
wrote the document, you used PostSript fonts throughout (I'm aware that
this can be done, but have never done it myself), and possibly chose a
font I'm lacking. A quick check, and that's it. You're using Palatino,
and I'm font challenged. I'll change all of the Palatino to Times-Roman
in the .ps file and see what happens. That'll have to happen tonight,
though.
I know that this isn't what you folks want to hear about. Configuring
TeX on a complete newbies (and a strange one at that) machine isn't
what the bug list is for, but I'm just hoping that one little bit is
missing and all I need to do is download a file, or globally change
"Use Font XYZ" to "Use Font something-I-have" in the TeX file, and
re-render it.
The scsh-manual has the same problem as well. On a side note, the
little logo in the corner comes out great :-).
Thanx for any pointers you can give.
Will Hartung
(villy@collinscomp.com)
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