> It's just not that hard to use the iwp9 macros with plan9port.
> They work fine, and if you put .FP luxisans at the top of your
> ms file you can get a nice-looking B&H-designed sans serif font too.
> And then when you submit the source to them you or they
> can delete that one line. It's easy
> Now for the problem behind all this. I am basically required to use troff
> for formatting the iwp9 paper submissions. I have asked repeatedly for the
> a TeX macros, or the source for an acceptable macro.ms equivalents. All of
> these requests have been greeted with silence because someone, a
As I said, I would ask Bigelow & Holmes for final clarification before
releasing anything. I am not trying to dance around the license, but get
clarification on what is OK. I have made it a habit of asking people here,
and elsewhere, if there they would mind if I do something in a particular
way
>> do you have the fonts?
>> they do not come with plan9port, because the
>> postscript fonts cannot be redistributed except
>> with plan 9 itself.
>
> turns out no. Here is a sticky question (one I will likely have to write
> Bigelow & Holmes for final clarification), but if I write a script (por
> do you have the fonts?
> they do not come with plan9port, because the
> postscript fonts cannot be redistributed except
> with plan 9 itself.
turns out no. Here is a sticky question (one I will likely have to write
Bigelow & Holmes for final clarification), but if I write a script (portage
eb
> this doesn't work for me either on p9p, but it does work under
> plan 9. it's a font problem.
do you have the fonts?
they do not come with plan9port, because the
postscript fonts cannot be redistributed except
with plan 9 itself.
i believe that if you copy /sys/lib/postscript/font/*
to /usr/lo
forwarded ...
> I thought I had the typesetting correct, but I had not included the
> macros. When I do, it completely messes everything up -- like expanding
> two words and having them type over each other (see attached).
>
> I'm running this on plan9port with the command:
>
> 9 troff -mpictu
