Re: tlug: Draft of June 13 TLUG General Meeting Announcement

[Manuel Chakravarty <chak@example.com>]

Rex Walters <rex@example.com> writes,

> On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 03:02:32PM +0900, craigoda@example.com wrote:
> > 
> > If anyone else wants to do a demonstration of something, speak up.
> > Incidently, I've found that MagicPoint under Linux is awesome for
> > presentations.  http://www.mew.org/mgp
> 
> Hey!  Thanks for this link -- this is absolute gold for me!
> 
> Hint for anybody who does the same thing I did (as fast as I could type
> "ncftp ftp.mew.org; xmkmf -a; make; ./mgp sample/tutorial.mgp"): it runs
> *V-E-R-Y* s-l-o-w-l-y without vflib or vflib enabled Xserver when
> displaying kanji (at least I assume it runs faster when using vflib).
> Try sample/ascii.mgp to get a better idea of speed.

As also noticed in another posting to this list, there is a
problem with compiling `scanner.l' on some system.  This is
due to the use of the keyword `inline' in two places in the
file `scanner.l'.  I have no idea which versions of gcc
accept this, mine (2.7.2.3) doesn't.  But you can get rid of
the error message by simply deleting both occurences of the
keyword `inline'.  (Probably incur some performance penalty
as the function won't be inlined, I guess.)

I also tried compiling with VFlib, which works fine, but
brings me to the question of (a) where to get fonts for
VFlib (e.g., the `minsl' font that `mgp' complains about
when started on `sample/tutorial.mgp') and (b) where does
VFlib expect the fonts -- there is some vfontcap file, but
where should I put it etc.  Does anybody have any experience 
with VFlib?

Cheers,

Manuel



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