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\section{\protect\TeX\ on the Atari --- questions}

\noindent I became aware of the power and style
of \TeX\ through reading {\it Digital Typography} by Richard Rubinstein
a few months ago; consequently,
I am a newcomer to both \TeX\ and \ukt. I was advised to
stick to plain \TeX\ to begin with and
use the version of Atari\TeX\ created by Christoph Strunk
of Bochum based on \TeX\ version 3.1, \MF\ version 2.7
and $\mu$Emacs version 3.09. Unfortunately, Strunk (like many
another German computer guru) provides all his documentation
in fairly difficult German and doesn\rq{}t answer letters, so I am
appealing to the \BV\ readership to see if there is
anyone \lq{}out there\rq{} who is familiar with---or even uses---Atari\TeX\ and
could help me with the following, relatively minor, problems.



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\item How can I install a more up-to-date version of $\mu$Emacs? 
As a user of a mouse driven computer, I find it very hard that I 
am forced to edit text without my mouse and cannot
make another version of $\mu$Emacs (say 3.10, 
being modest in my aspirations), let alone a totally different
editor {\it with} a spell checker, 
integrate properly into the shell environment.  

\item Strunk\rq{}s laser printer driver, dvi\_lj2, is 
designed for the Hewlett-Packard
LaserJet~II -- is there one which can take advantage of the features
of the LaserJet~III? In particular, I would like to be able to print
in landscape from time to time. It may well be that there is now
one for the LaserJet~4 which will allow printing at 600~dpi.



\item  My German is not strong, but am I right in thinking
that Strunk has forgotten to include an option in dvi\_lj2 which would
allow double sided printing?
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A paragraph for \lq{}strangers\rq{} to the world of Atari\TeX.
The marketing policy of Atari Corporation does indeed tend to
support an attitude of massive indifference to their products, 
but the TT computer is a powerful and user-friendly machine. (For the
technical, it uses a 68030 processor and a 68882 floating point coprocessor
running at 32\ MHz in conjunction with the GEM interface to humans.)
Strunk\rq{}s version of Atari\TeX\ appears to me to be convenient to
use, and has many features which I have yet to explore thoroughly.
On a lighter note, I have found two which have not been mentioned
by users of \TeX\ on other platforms -- incorporating images
is trivially easy, I normally use .IMG format, but others may be used; 
there is a PostScript printer driver and also one which 
produces files of each page in .IMG format. This driver 
provides a very cumbersome way of printing in landscape as well as its
more important function of allowing the 
incorporation of \TeX\ output into my word processor.



\signature{John Bowsher\\
Bonner\rq{}s Field\\
Northbourne Road\\
Great Mongeham\\
Deal, Kent CT14 0LD}



\section{Typesetting the \protect\TeX\ logo properly?}
\ldots Working on a logo has made me realise that, in my opinion, \BV\ 
doesn\rq{}t print the official \TeX\ logo correctly. When cmr is used
the \textsf{E} in the middle is joined to the serifs on the initial
\textsf{T} and final \textsf{X}; in ITC New Baskerville Roman, the
\textsf{E} is floating uncomfortably on its own. That cannot have been
the intention of the original designer of the logo.

\signature{John Bowsher}



\noindent{\em [Editor\rq{}s reply: You are quite right; the \TeX\ logo
  could use a redefinition for each font family. Philip Taylor brought
  up the same issue when the TUG\rq{}93 proceedings were set in Lucida
  Bright. But I think we need clarification from Knuth --- he might
  say, for instance, that we should always print the \TeX\ logo in
  Computer Modern.]}

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