% driv-l/Index 12 Dec 91 %------------------------------------------------------------ % Compiled by Joachim Schrod % % Person names as given by signatures, look at the end for full names % 9111 should messages be suppressable? [-dh & Ed & Arthur Ogawa] in which directories and over which env vars should a font be searched? [-dh & karl] 9110 what to do if a font is missing [Eberhard & StvB & Nelson & Joachim] should warnings be suppressable? [karl & Eberhard & Joachim] 9109 9108 announcement of draft 0.05a [Joachim] dvicopy, a processor for eliminating VF references from DVI files, is available from major archives [-dh] a driver is not allowed to omit empty pages [Joachim] which printer ignore FFs when no material was on the page [Eberhard & Joachim] 9107 announcement of the dvi-standard ftp reference server, ftp.th-darmstadt.de [Joachim] 9106 9105 suggestion how to search for a font [Dan Karron] should it be required that the driver may position randomly in the DVI file? (Level 0 does not specify this.) [karl & Joachim & Nelson & StvB & -tom & Tom] 9104 clarification what the HP LJ does with its bounding boxes [Joachim] 9103 clarification that TFM widths have nothing to do with bounding boxes of bitmaps [Pierre & Nelson & -dh] 9102 Joachim declared as secretary of committee [-dh] inclusion of PostScript EPSF files [Laurent Siebenmann] 9101 fontnaming proposal for inclusion of PostScript fonts with examples [Teresa A. Ehling & Berthold K.P. Horn] fontnaming proposal, first version [karl, reposted by Joachim] fontnaming: introduction of a mapping file [Jerry] new voting member: Andrew Dobrowolski (instead of John Gourlay) fontnaming: presentation of X-Window naming scheme with a possible connection to drivers [Nelson & -dh] 9012 how to make rules fitting [Jerry & Tom] error in Steele's paper ``How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately'' [Nelson] font naming [Eberhard] don't let PostScript do the rounding [StvB] 9011 a concept for a trip test [Tom] announcement of DVIASM [Tom] how to make rules fitting [Jan & Tom & -tom] 9010 Call for a standardization of specials, directed to PostScript [Teresa A. Ehling & Berthold K.P. Horn] 9009 example for detection of wrong max drift algorithm [Peter Dalgaard] 9008 how large may rounding errors be [correction by Jan Michael Rynning] how should different (ie. inconsistent) TFM widhts be handled? [peb] change in voting procedure [-dh] 9007 how large may rounding errors be [-tom & correction by Tom Reid] how to set chars of substituted fonts [Bart] DVI standard level 0, release 0.3 [-dh] establishing of the voting members subgroup, publication of a ``voting procedure'' [-dh] why there must be 20000 rules per page (or even 30000) [Doug McDonald] Flattermarken and Bogensignaturen [Joachim] how rules must be positioned and rounded [-dh] What should be in the rationale [Tom] What font metric information is missing in AFM files [Nelson] Which fonts have chars with non-equivalent TFM/Pixel widths [Tom & correction by Klaus Guntermann in 9008] Structure of the standard [-dh] adding Adrian Clark to the voting members afm format is at science.utah.edu [Nelson] 9006 proposal for error messages when fonts are missing [Pierre MacKay] DVI standard level 0, release 0.2 [-dh] ========================================================================== Persons: Nelson Nelson H. F. Beebe StvB Stephan v. Bechtolsheim karl Karl Berry peb Peter Breitenlohner Bart Bart Childs Teresa A. Ehling Ed Ed Garay Klaus Guntermann Berthold K.P. Horn -dh Don Hosek Dan Karron Jerry Jerry Leichter Pierre MacKay Eberhard Eberhard Mattes Doug McDonald Arthur Ogawa Tom Thomas J. Reid -tom Tomas G. Rokicki Jan Jan Michael Rynning Joachim Joachim Schrod Laurent Siebenmann