Subject: Re: gcc graphics To: melvin AT math DOT psu DOT edu (Richard Mansfield) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 0:35:55 EST From: Stephen Turnbull Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list) > Has anyone successfully compiled TeX using gcc on the PC. I used web2c Yes. The Japanese have, several times. These things are known as UGOTeX, ASCII Nihongo TeX for GO32, and NTT Nihongo TeX for GO32. All of them have pure English TeXs with them; I don't use them since I have yet to find an English file that the Japanese-oriented TeXs mung. I dunno if the annotations and source changes are readable, let alone intelligible. I'll translate, if you want; I bill at $250/hr :-) I've never had any takers :-> I do know that the changes from ASCII and NTT Nihongo TeXs for Unix to the PC versions are extensive; however these may have a lot to do with dealing with the various incompatible-at-all-levels sushi-flavored approximately 90% clones the Japanese have lots of still. Where to get this stuff is extremely geography-dependent. Some of my favorite archives cannot be reached at all from Chicago I am told. Talk to archie; look for JLaTeX, JTeX (with that capitalization), and tex-for-GO32 (with various capitalizations). > to make all the C source files and made a file of the Unix commands > issued by make, took them home to my PC, edited as many system dependent > #define's as I could find and compiled it. The compile seemed to go ok > with no error messages and initex almost seemed to work, but it could > not read any of my .tfm files (bad file messages, not missing files). All of the Japanese versions are inter-incompatible w.r.t. .tfm files. They don't say "bad", though, they say "wrong format, please tangle again". > It created a format file, but virtex cannot read the format file. (Again, Dunno about this, but see above. > the message is "cannot read" not missing or bad). It looks to me like > there is a possibility that the input routines in TeX have some anti-PC > code. When I try initex on an actual TeX file with \input plain as its > first line, everything seems to work except that there are no fonts and > so every letter puts a error message into the log file. That's what you'd expect from TeXs that can't even RTFM >:-> Sorry; it's late. -- Stephen Turnbull The Ohio State University, Department of Economics 410 Arps Hall, 1945 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43210-1172 USA Phone: (614) 292-0654 Fax: ...-3906 Email: turnbull DOT 1 AT osu DOT edu