Mike,
One of the other questions was why are there no 2703 or similar lines
defined it the released versions.
I know when you did the release there was little support for these in
Hercules but we now have support for TELE2, 2741 and 3781 (bi-sync for
hasp).
These would be useful for TEK4010 or HPGL plotters, so could some be added?
Dave
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike
Alexander
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 5:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H390-MTS] A number of questions about MTS.
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
