On 26 Jan 2024, at 17:35, Bile Geek wrote:
Speaking of printers: do you recall if later versions of LaTeX[1]
supported PostScript, or if support was stuck on the Xerox 9700?
I don't think I answered this question.
When MTS was shut down in 1996 Postscript support was mostly complete
but not really released yet. However it mostly works.
MTS documentation is generally Textform input, LaTex input, or printer
ready files meant to be copied to a printer.
There is a new version of Textform in NEW:TEXTFORM that will produce
Postscript output.
DVI files produced by LaTex in MTS can be processed by dvips on a Mac
(and presumably elsewhere). It's also possible to copy the LaText file
to a Mac and run LaTex on it there. Of course the version of LaTex and
TeX in MTS is 30 years old and somewhat incompatible with current
versions.
I have a version of enscript that will turn an MTS printer file,
complete with carriage control, into a Postscript file. Back around
2010 I used a combination of these techniques to convert much of the MTS
documentation to PDF files. most of which are available online. There
is a lot more that could be converted.
Mike
