5-Feb-1992 1:10:20-GMT,14846;000000000001 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA20459; Tue, 4 Feb 92 18:10:18 MST Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1ju) id AA18378; Tue, 4 Feb 92 15:13:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 15:13:59 -0800 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9202042313.AA18378@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: TeXhax Digest V91 #052 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:;@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Tuesday, February 4, 1991 Volume 92 : Issue 001 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% %%%Moderator's note: Funding for the TeXhax Digest ceased in October 1991, %%%which is why none have been published in the past few months. We were %%%recently informed that funding is available for TeXhax for 1992, and %%%we have therefore resumed publication of it. Today's Topics: Mode Defs for NEC Silentwriter 2 90??? mac@iesd.auc.dk (Kaj Didriksen) AMSFonts for Textures posted to e-MATH Re: Problem with \bgroup \egroup in the definition of an environment Possible TeX bug discovered -- boxes and rules -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 91 14:39:51 CST From: coleman@di.uregina.ca (Dr. Coleman) Subject: Mode Defs for NEC Silentwriter 2 90??? Keywords: mode_def, NEC Silentwriter 2 90 Can someone please tell me where to get them? Do they differ from those for an Apple Laserwriter II NT? Thanks. Robert Coleman Mathematics Department University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan coleman@di.uregina.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 8 Nov 91 10:29:44 From: mac@iesd.auc.dk (Kaj Didriksen) Subject: OzTeX Keywords: OzTeX, \special Hi, I'm an OzTeX user with a common problem: the \special command for inclusion of PostScript figures. I don't program TeX like a pro but have been programming PostScript for a year. The following is a solution for including PostScript in OzTeX documents. That I did. The thing is, that OzTeX puts the origin of the figure at the point where the \special command was found. OzTeX then prints the figure using the BoundingBox comment in the header of the PoscScript file. The BoundingBox comment is a description of the size of the figure and a description of the offset of the figure in PostScript coordinates and points. It is parsed as lower-left x-coordinate (llx), lower-left y-coordinate (lly), upper-right x-coordinate (urx) and upper-right y-coodinate (ury). To put the figure at the point, where OzTeX found the \special command, we have to make the BoundingBox comment look like this 0 0 (urx-llx) (ury-lly). We can tell the PostScript printer to calculate this for us bu putting these PostScript commands after the filename in the \special command: -llx -lly translate This prints the figure at the ''right spot''. Well, if we want the figure to center on the page we can put a \centerline around the \special command like this: \centerline{\special{psfile.ps}} This will not put the figure at the corect location because all we have done is to offset the origin. We have to place the figure half it's width to the left. this we can tell the PostScript printer by using the following PostScript commands after the filename in the \special command, like this: -0.5 urx llx sub mul 0 translate. The only problem left is to get the llx, lly, urx and urx numbers from the PostScript file. I told you that I don't program TeX so good, but I can read TeX! I found a styleoption called psfig that can do a lot of things to a PostScript file on a UNIX machine!!! Okay, but this psfig did read in the PostScript file and assigned llx,lly,urx and ury to variables \epsf@llx, \epsf@lly, \epsf@urx and \epsf@ury. I modyfied the psfig style to read like this at a certain point in the file: \centerline{\special{\@p@sfile \space -\epsf@llx \space -\epsf@lly \space translate \space -0.5 \space \epsf@urx \space \epsf@llx \space sub \space mul \space 0 \space translate}} the ps-file to include is assigned to \@p@sfile. THIS WORKS. Okay I have not yet removed all the unneaded TeX commands in the psfig file, but as of now I have a styleoption for OzTeX users that will place all PostScript figures correctly and centered on the page (not the physical page, but the page that LaTeX puts text into). If you want my styleoption mail me and I will send it to you. mac@iesd.auc.dk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 6 Nov 91 15:06:14-EST From: Ralph Youngen Subject: AMSFonts for Textures posted to e-MATH Keywords: AMSFonts, TeXtures In response to several requests, we have posted the Macintosh version of the AMSFonts for use with Textures to e-MATH.ams.com. These fonts are stored as as BinHex'd StuffIt archives in the directory /ams/macintosh. For convenience, the AMS-LaTeX 1.1 and AMS-TeX 2.1 distributions are also stored in this same manner in the same directory. As always, please let us know if anyone finds problems with any of these files. Thanks. Ralph Youngen Technical Support Manager American Mathematical Society Internet: REY@MATH.AMS.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 09:12:46 CST From: max@nic.gac.edu (Max Hailperin) Subject: Re: Problem with \bgroup \egroup in the definition of an environment Keywords: environment, \bgroup \egroup I'm writing regarding the problems with the multicolpar.sty file, where there was a missing } in the \end{multicolpar} but putting an \egroup there didn't seem to help. The fundamental problem is that there is not one but *two* \bgroup's in the \mutlicolumnparallelparagraphs that need to be closed off (one for the \vtop, then an outer one for the \hbox). Therefore, if you had added a second \egroup to the one you already had in the ending part of the environment declaration, the error message about the missing } would have gone away. However, this doesn't properly solve the problem, in that it would not produce the proper spacing of the last row of paragraphs if the number of paragraphs were not evenly divisible by the number of colummns. [Actually, if the number of paragraphs was one more than a multiple of the number of columns the correct spacing would result as well, but with an underfull box warning. Hence, for the two column case the correct appearance would always be produced, sometimes just with a warning.] Therefore, to ensure proper spacing, it is necessary that \end{multicolpar} automatically introduce the requisite number of empty paragraphs to round up to the next multiple of the column count. This can be done by adding the definition of \endmulticolumnparallelparagraphs shown below and then changing the \newenvironment so that that command replaces the \egroup you have. Actually, there is one further problem I see with your definition, namely that it makes no provision for extra leading above and below the multicolpar environment. I would suggest therefore that you may also want to put a \begin{trivlist}\item[] into the beginning part of the environment definiton and the matching \end{trivlist} into the ending part, as shown below. This is completely independent of the \endmulticolumnparallelparagraphs part, and may not be appropriate to your application. =============== suggested change/addition to multicolpar.sty =============== \newenvironment{multicolpar}[1]{\begin{trivlist}\item[]% \multicolumnparallelparagraphs{#1}{2em}}% {\endmulticolumnparallelparagraphs\end{trivlist}} \def\endmulticolumnparallelparagraphs{% \egroup % end the vtop \advance\columnsleft-1 \ifnum\columnsleft>0 \hfil\vtop\bgroup\hbox to \hsize{} \endmulticolumnparallelparagraphs \else \egroup % end the \hbox \xpar \fi} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1991 09:24:50 CST From: "Hunter Goatley, WKU" Subject: Possible TeX bug discovered -- boxes and rules Keywords: TeX, bug, boxes and rules This message documents what I believe is a bug in TeX. I welcome any corrections or explanations for what's going on. At the end of this message is a file (with comments) that demonstrates my claim. Just use plain TeX to process it. In my newsletter macros, I used a slight variation of the \boxit macro from exercise 21.3 in _The TeXbook_ to put boxes around article titles. For a long time, I've known about a problem with the boxes' rules not meeting properly on the right-hand side. As Rex Shudde <0024P@NAVPGS.BITNET> pointed out: >It's as if both the top & bottom horizontal rules run too far >to the right (or as if the right hand vertical bar is pulled to the right a >bit). Is this a glitch of some sort? > Before releasing the macros to the world, I tried my best to get rid of that anomaly, and was partially successful. It doesn't happen with all rule sizes; in fact, changing the rule size can cause the opposite effect: the vertical rule on the right will actually extend *past* the top and bottom horizontal rules. The \boxit macro is almost identical to Knuth's solution to exercise 21.3 in _The TeXbook_. All of my experiments led me to believe that it is some kind of bug in TeX (since the output is identical over several different DVI drivers under both VMS and DOS). If anyone finds a bug in what *I'm* doing, or has any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear about it. I've spent several hours trying various combinations. Each time I think I have it solved, I find more examples that fail. Hunter Hunter Goatley, VAX Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet, 502-745-5251 % % Hunter Goatley, goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, November 8, 1991 % % The following TeX code demonstrates what I believe to be a bug in TeX's % processing of rules and boxes. % % The \boxit macro below is exactly the same as Knuth's answer to exercise % 21.3 in _The TeXbook_, except that I have added the ability to specify % the size of the rules and the amount of space to leave around the box. % \font\big=cmss17 \font\little=cmss9 \def\boxit#1{\vbox{\hrule height\boxitrule\hbox{\vrule width\boxitrule% \kern\boxitspace% \vbox{\kern\boxitspace#1\kern\boxitspace}\kern\boxitspace% \vrule width\boxitrule}\hrule height\boxitrule}} % % Now define the dimens used for the width of the rules and the spaces % \newdimen\boxitrule \boxitrule=1.2pt \newdimen\boxitspace \boxitspace=3pt % % A macro to calculate the extra width of a boxit'ed box. Used to subtract % the width of the box from \hsize so the box doesn't stick out. % \def\setboxwid{\boxitwidth=2\boxitrule \advance\boxitwidth by2\boxitspace} % % A macro used in my newsletter macros to do article titles. The inner box % rules are half the size of the outer box rules. % \def\articletitle#1#2{{% \setboxwid % Calculate width of outer box \advance\hsize by-\boxitwidth % Bring hsize in so it's not too wide \vskip 10pt plus 5pt % Skip some space \boxit{% % Box the box \divide\boxitrule by 2 % Make inside box lines thinner \setboxwid % Calculate width of inner box \advance\hsize by-\boxitwidth % Bring hsize in for inner box too \boxit{% % Box the text \vbox{\noindent % Create a box \centerline{\big #1} % Print title of article \centerline{\little #2} % Print article byline }}}}} % Create the text box %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % Now do an article title using the default boxitrule (1.2pt) and boxitspace % (3pt). After it, do a plain \boxit. % % BOTH OF THESE COME OUT JUST FINE!!! % \articletitle{Hello, world}{by me} \bigskip \boxit{\vbox{\hsize=4in\centerline{Hello, world}}} \bigskip % % NOW, change the \boxitrule size to 2pt and do the same thing. This time, % the right-hand vrule on the outer box of the article title extends a % little too far to the right. The difference is only something like % half a point, but it is noticeable (particularly when viewed by something % like XDVI). % % Note that the plain \boxit doesn't have the problem. % \boxitrule=2pt \articletitle{Hello, world}{by me} \bigskip \boxit{\vbox{\hsize=4in\centerline{Hello, world}}} % % Now, to *really* demonstrate the bug, change the boxitrule to 20pt and % just do some text. The text below lies; the first one is OK and the % other two stick out to the right. % % I first used "No more examples" and found the problem. To make more sense, % I changed the text to "Sticks out at 20pt" and the problem went away! % ("Sticks..." is about 2pts narrower than "No...") The problem came back % with "Not OK at 20pt". Changing boxitrule to other sizes may or may not % produce the problem. I've never been able to find any kind of pattern % to this (IMHO) MAJOR bug in TeX. % \boxitrule=20pt \bigskip \boxit{\hbox{Sticks out at 20pt}} \bigskip \boxit{\hbox{Not OK at 20pt}} \bigskip \boxit{\vbox{\hbox{No more examples}}} \bye ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% JANET users may choose to use %%% texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu %%% %%% Back issues available for FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU TeXhax/TeXhaxyy.nnn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nnn = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- 23-Feb-1992 22:14:11-GMT,21149;000000000001 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA13980; Sun, 23 Feb 92 15:14:09 MST Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1ju) id AA29322; Sun, 23 Feb 92 12:09:15 -0800 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 92 12:09:15 -0800 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9202232009.AA29322@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #002 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:;@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Sunday, February 23, 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 002 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: Advanced TeX course in the Netherlands, June 15-19, 92 at low cost. IBM Extended Graphic fonts Questions about LaTeX Indexing facility for TeX DVIMSWIN Document identification in LaTeX Re: Document identification in LaTeX bibIX Project ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1992 13:00 MET From: CGL@RUGR86.RUG.NL Subject: Advanced TeX course in the Netherlands, June 15-19, 92 at low cost. Keywords: TeX, advanced courses, Netherlands Please announce this or forward it to the various lists, or ... Thanks, ---Kees--- \documentstyle[twocolumn]{article} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0} \begin{document} \title{NTG's Advanced \TeX\ course: Insights \& Hindsights} \author{David Salomon} \date{15--19th June, 1992} \maketitle \begin{abstract} This advanced course, with no hands-on, is aimed at those \TeX\ and/or \LaTeX\ users who are ready for a deeper insight into the \TeX nigma. An extra one-day introductory course can be organized for inexperienced users, if there is enough demand. \end{abstract} \section{Course outline} \begin{description} \item[Day 1:] Introduction to \TeX. The cm fonts. Tables (examples). Math typesetting (some advanced features). Modes of \TeX. \item[Day 2:] Boxes \& glue. Paragraphs \& Horizontal mode. \item[Day 3:] Macros (advanced features \& examples). Leaders. Tokens \& \verb=\=toks registers. \item[Day 4:] File I/O in \TeX. Examples of two-pass jobs. Output routines. \item[Day 5:] Insertions. The line break algorithm (in detail). The page break algorithm (in general). The last afternoon will be spent answering specific questions, and discussing specific topics proposed by the participants. \noindent Each day is a separate module, so it is possible to benefit from selected parts of the course.\footnote{At the same flat fee for members, however. For others---why not become a member?---Fl 100,-- for each day, with at minimum Fl 250,--.} \end{description} \section{Whom? When? Where? How much?} \begin{description} \item[For whom?] \TeX\ or \LaTeX\ users with hands-on experience will benefit most. \item[When?] June, 15--19th, 1992, 9.00--12.00 \& 14.00--17.00hr. \item[Where?] RUG Paddepoel, Zernike Gebouw room ZG114 and ZG107.\footnote{For lodging contact VVV, Naberpassage 3, 9712JV, Groningen, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 50 139700, Fax: +31 50 136358.} \item[How much?] For NTG members and members of similar user groups a flat Fl 100,-- (Yes, only a hundred, but no lunches and refreshments are included; the University `Mensa' is quite cheap and restaurants close by.) For non-NTG members Fl 500,--.% \footnote{For those who don't believe in a quality course at that fee, it should be mentioned that NTG subsidizes the project, so it is a unique opportunity. NTG's philosophy is that \TeX\ education is paramount for people interested in high-quality typesetted documents.} \end{description} \noindent The teacher is David Salomon, an experienced TUG instructor, well known for his lucid tutorials in TUGboat. \section{How to subscribe?} \begin{description} \item[Via snail] Send a note, mentioning `Insights in \TeX'-course along with name, complete address, phone number and email, to \begin{quote} Kees van der Laan\\ Hunzeweg 57, 9893PB, Garnwerd\\ The Netherlands (05941--1525) \end{quote} Mentioning of topics to be treated in the last afternoon is very much appreciated. \item[Via email] Send a subscription note, mentioning `Insights in \TeX'-course along with name, complete address, phone number (and email), to \begin{quote} cgl@rug.nl. \end{quote} \item[Payment] As soon as possible to: \begin{quote} Penningmeester NTG, Giro: 1306238\\ mentioning `Insights in \TeX' course. \end{quote} \end{description} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 20:26 CST From: GERDESJH@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu Subject: IBM Extended Graphic fonts Keywords: IBM Extended Graphic fonts I want to incorporate a screen capture into a TeX file, but the screen has extended graphic characters (ie. lines and boxes). Does anyone know of any fonts which would correctly handle these characters. It would be nice to have different sized fonts. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, John Gerdes BITNET: GERDESJH@VUCTRVAX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 91 00:23:07 CST From: rshaffer@cs.tamu.edu (Robert S Shaffer) Subject: Questions about LaTeX Keywords:LaTeX Hi, I have been using LaTeX for some time now, and have learned several tricks and such. But there are two things which are stumping me. Either I am blind and don't see the solution, or I have over looked the answer. First, I am looking for a command that will supress a page number on any given page, but still increment the "page" counter. Some pages in my document do not need page numbers, but the page counter should still be incremented. Is there a single command to do this, or is there a macro or \def necessary? Also, I do not want the text right justified. If I use \flushleft, then all the paragraph breaks get messed up, and there is no paragraph indentation. Everything is exactly "flushleft". I want to have the normal paragraph breaks and indentation, but also have ragged right margins throughout the document. Except for the table of contents and such. Is there a .sty file for this, or is it redefining how LaTeX handls L-R mode? Thanks, Robert S. Shaffer rshaffer@neuron.cs.tamu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 11:44:14 +0100 From: Remo Badii Subject: Indexing facility for TeX Keywords: TeX, indexing Dear Sirs, my name is R. Badii, Paul-Scherrer Institute Group LUS, CH-5232 Villigen PSI Switzerland. I am just starting to write a book for the Cambridge University Press and I have been requested to do it with Tex (rather than with Latex, which I have been using for a long time). The publisher provided me with their macros, which work all right. However, there is indexing facility. I included the one Knuth used for his book, but I am not very satisfied with it (especially because when I type ^{H\'enon} for example, I get H{\accent 19} ... in the index file). Would it be possible to have an index-maker which just writes on the index file the entry as it is (including control symbols and math-mode symbols) plus the page number (or even, when requested, "\bf pagenumber")? I would appreciate very much of you could help me. Another possibility would be to get a copy of the TUGboat {\bf 1} (1980), paper by T. Winograd and B. Paxton, A1-A12, where an indexing macro is presented. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, R. Badii --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 00:20 EST From: GRONKE@DUKEMVS.BITNET Subject: DVIMSWIN Keywords: dviswim My mistake, and apologies to Steve Grigg. While mucking about in my WIN.INI file, I found the following lines: [DVIMSWIN] fontpath=c:emtex=texfontsdpi subfile=c:emtex params=10 0.000000e+000 0.000000e+000 You create a emtextexfontsdpi100 subdirectory, and put the 100 dpi fonts into it. DVIMSWIN should work fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1991 09:56 GMT From: Peter Flynn Subject: Document identification in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, document identification I need to put the college seal and name at the top of the title page of some LaTeX documents, above the document title, in 12pt type (for an 10pt text doc). I have the seal in a font file, so that's not a problem, but has someone a pointer to some additional code to do this: I can of course simply stuff in a couple of \centerline{}'s but that doesn't look like a very PC way of doing it. The other requirement is for version numbering (manually typed) to go below the author, in text-size type. Any suggestions? ///Peter, still feeling constricted by LaTeX ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 12:44:48 +0100 From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf) Subject: Re: Document identification in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, document identification Peter Flynn asks: I need to put the college seal and name at the top of the title page of some LaTeX documents, above the document title, in 12pt type (for an 10pt text doc). I have the seal in a font file, so that's not a problem, but has someone a pointer to some additional code to do this: I can of course simply stuff in a couple of \centerline{}'s but that doesn't look like a very PC way of doing it. The other requirement is for version numbering (manually typed) to go below the author, in text-size type. Any suggestions? I would recommend to redefine the \maketitle/\@maketitle macros. The best way to do so isto look into article.doc where they are explained. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany or ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 18:26:30 PST From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.EDU (R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D.) Subject: bibIX Project Keywords: bibIX The bibIX Project is an undertaking at the University of California at San Francisco, which has been endeavoring to create a comprehensive software environment for bibliographic database management and text formatting. The current bibIX suite supports the troff formatting system; a brief description is appended. It shares an origin in common with tib (both systems arose as derivatives of the bib system of Budd and Levin), but has evolved considerably from these origins, while maintaining backward compatibility. The present release of bibIX has been completely rewritten with formatter-independence in mind, and has tried to benefit from careful consideration of features provided by other systems addressing the bibliography problem, including the commendable BibTeX program. We have done our best to isolate all formatter-dependent aspects of the package into a small set of routines. We currently supply routines only for troff, and are seeking a collaborator with expertise in TeX to write a set of routines for TeX. This person must be seriously committed to completing this work, not casually interested in the problem. Terms of the collaboration are flexible and open to negotiation, and would include an appropriate share of authorship. If you are interested, please contact rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu for fuller details; please supply information about your qualifications and motivation for involvement in this work. We do not read the mailing list to which this is being submitted, so please respond directly to the above address. R. P. C. Rodgers GENERAL DESCRIPTION BibIX is a suite of C programs and UNIX Bourne shell scripts which allows the creation and manipulation of bibliographic databases. It is a powerful adjunct to the troff text formatting system (and, in a future release, will be usable in conjunction with other batch-mode and WYSIWYG systems). Its generality and flexible database capabilities have also made it well suited to other applications, such as the creation and use of on-line publications catalogs and address books, and the creation of printed indices for in-house memoranda and reports. The program bib allows formatted citations and their corresponding references to be inserted into a text file which can then be printed using the n/troff text formatting programs. As such, it is a preprocessor for the n/troff system, much like pic, eqn, and tbl. A new release (currently in preparation) will be formatter-independent, and thus appropriate for use with other batch-mode (TeX) and WYSIWYG text preparation systems. Other programs in the suite (bibcheck, bibtext) check for (and often automatically correct) common errors which would otherwise interfere with the proper functioning of bib, or facilitate the creation and manipulation of reference databases. Users may create new citation/reference formatting styles interactively (bibstyle, bibdemo). The bibroff script provides a facility for automatic invocation of required n/troff pre-processors, and then writes a Bourne shell script which will automatically assemble a finished document, invoking any required pro-processors, including chem, pic, bib, lbl, tbl, eqn, and psfig (sometimes helpful for beginners or complex documents). A database of over 6600 journal titles and their ANSI abbreviations has been incorporated into the system, allowing browsing and automatic title abbreviation. The bibabb script abbreviates titles "on the fly" using a dictionary of abbreviations. The bibpun script restores terminal periods to abbreviations in journal titles. The bibformat utility reformats references obtained from on-line bibliographic searches. New database items can also be added with an editor or with the bibnew script. The bibhyphen hyphenation correction utility is of general use for n/troff, quite independently of its role in bibIX. Various other tools (bibdel, bibpack, bibsort, bibsplit) facilitate database manipulation. Release 2.1 supplies a new network-distributed database mechanism, which is faster and more efficient than the method used in earlier releases. It also allows increased selectivity in searching. BibIX is accompanied by a 100+ page Users/Programmers Manual, which includes a pithy twelve-page User's Guide and a one-page Quick Reference Guide. The package is provided with numerous generic citation/reference formatting styles as well as many styles for specific publications. The formatting is MUCH more flexible and reliable than with the earlier refer and bib systems; the style of citation markers in the text and of the printed references (printed as either footnotes or endnotes) is easily modified to accommodate virtually any publication. During six years of use, the package has proven to be remarkably reliable and flexible, and is in wide use in academic and industrial sites around the world, where it is being used for the preparation of grant proposals, theses, manuscripts, reports, and various other documents, as well as various on-line catalogs and informational databases. The Office of Technology Licensing at the University of California at Berkeley is actively involved in negotiations with a number of commercial software vendors who have indicated interest in including bibIX as part of their supported commercial software offerings. ******************************************************************************** SECTION 2: PROGRAMS IN THIS PACKAGE bib(1L): inserts formatted citations and references into a n/troff document bibabb(1L): abbreviate journal titles using abbreviation dictionary bibcheck(1L): checks reference database for errors bibcmp(1L), bibexam(1L): compares two databases for potentially duplicated entries bibcull(1L): removes specified reference items from a database bibdbm(1L): creates hash table for journal title database bibdel(1L): delete selected fields from a database bibdemo(1L): print or display a demonstration of a specified formatting style bibfind(1L): performs searches of a bib reference database bibformat(1L): script reformats references obtained from on-line searches so that they are in bib database format; currently supports MEDLARS and Chemical Abstracts databases bibhyphen(1L): script does hyphenation corrections to a n/troff input file bibindex(1L): creates an inverted index for a bib reference database (required by a number of other bibIX components) biblook(1L): configurable screen-oriented bibliographic searching tool bibroff(1L): interactive n/troff processing script which creates a Bourne shell script to assemble a final document, invoking any required preprocessors such as pic, bib, lbl, tbl, eqn, lbl as well as n/troff itself. bibjour(1L): searches a bib journal title database biblist(1L): produces a n/troff printable listing of an entire bib reference database bibmerge(1L): script merges multiple bib reference databases into a single database bibnew(1L): configurable interactive system to add new database items bibpack(1L): pack multiple database files into new file set, in which files are less than a specified maximum file size bibpun(1L): restore terminal periods to abbreviated words in journal titles bibsearch(1L): does a field-restricted search of a bib reference database without recourse to an inverted index bibserver(1L): provides a bibliographic mail server bibsort(1L): sort databases by specified fields (improved version of sortbib) bibsplit(1L): extract items from a database file based upon which fields are present bibstyle(1L): interactive system to allow user to create a new citation/reference formatting style bibtext(1L): script/program checks n/troff text file for common bib-related errors, including citation mismatching bibuniq(1L): searches single database for possible duplicate entries bibupdate(1L): updates a pre-existing new-style index bibwc(1L): counts entries in a database DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION BibIX is a licensed software system, and is distributed by: Office of Technology Licensing 2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 510 Berkeley, CA 94704-7201 United States of America (415)643-7201 (415)642-4566(fax) (domino@garnet.berkeley.edu) (orders) (domino@violet.berkeley.edu) (queries) (otl@violet.berkeley.edu) (general) Technical information can be obtained from the authors: R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D., and Conrad Huang, Ph.D. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy University of California, Laurel Heights Campus, Box 1204 3333 California Street, Room 102 San Francisco, CA 94118 USA UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cgl.ucsf.edu!rodgers UUCP: ...ucbvax.berkeley.edu!cgl.ucsf.edu!conrad Internet: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu Internet: conrad@cgl.ucsf.edu BITNET: rodgers@ucsfcgl BITNET: conrad@ucsfcgl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% JANET users may choose to use %%% texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu %%% %%% Back issues available for FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU TeXhax/TeXhaxyy.nnn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nnn = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- 9-Mar-1992 23:13:35-GMT,19268;000000000001 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA27946; Mon, 9 Mar 92 16:13:32 MST Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1ju) id AA16765; Mon, 9 Mar 92 12:17:09 -0800 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 12:17:09 -0800 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9203092017.AA16765@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #003 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:;@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Monday, March 9, 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 003 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: Trademark symbol under LaTeX?? HP LJ III Si, mode_def Re: Possible TeX bug discovered -- boxes and rules English language documentation for TeXshell Announcing ctt-Digest@SHSU.edu Seeking character set for ancient Greek Resume formatting Pageheader with LaTeX A TeX Language Problem Re: EPS inclusion in OzTeX the easy way !! modes.mf 0.9 released ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 92 17:21:15 EST From: Jim Romito Subject: Trademark symbol under LaTeX?? Keywords: trademark, LaTeX Greetings, Is there a LaTeX font to generate the trademark symbol (R)?? The copyright symbol (C) is documented, but I can't find any reference to trademarks. Jim Romito The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 15:48:44 GMT From: David Osborne Subject:HP LJ III Si, mode_def Keywords:HP LJ III Si, mode_def Can anyone supply a METAFONT mode_def for our new HP LJ III Si printer, or alternatively say what its print engine is? The documentation is silent on this matter, but we think it might be a Canon engine. My CM fonts built for a LaserWriter II (Canon-CX) look acceptable, but some of the bowls in cmr10/cmr12 letters are rather thin and spidery. --Dave David Osborne, Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Feb 92 21:48:30 +0100 From: Hubert Fauque Subject: Re: Possible TeX bug discovered -- boxes and rules Keywords: TeX, bug, boxes, rules It is NOT a TeX bug, but a problem with the DVI translators: Tex does his calculations with a great accuracy and the DVI translators have to round TeX results to accomodate to the (low) resolution of printers. Let's see your example "Not OK at 20 pt" in detail: TeX draws 4 rules: 2 big rules at top and bottom of 7620391sp and 2 small ones with "Not..pt" between. These little rules are 1310720sp wide and the right one starts at position 6309671sp (these numbers are in the DVI file) On my laserjet using DVIJEP, which always round up: 7620391sp=482.681points at 300dpi rounded by DVIJEP to 483 6309671sp=399.659points at 300dpi rounded by DVIJEP to 400 1310720sp=83.022points at 300dpi rounded by DVIJEP to 84 for TeX: 6309671 + 1310720 = 7620391 but for DVIJEP: 480 + 84 not= 483 which explains the extra width of the middle rule. Whatever the rule for rounding in the DVI translator: always up, always down or nearest, there will be mismatches, or the translator would need to round not the length of the rule, but the distance >From its end to the left of the page, and this may lead to undesire effects in other circumstances. Hubert Fauque fauque@margaux.inria.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 7 FEB 92 11:07:59 GMT From: CDRCM%CR83.STAFPOL.AC.UK@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU Subject: English language documentation for TeXshell Keywords: TeXshell, docs Can anybody out there help with English language documentation for TeXshell (a front-end for EmTeX on DOS machines). This package looks to be just what we want for providing EmTeX to inexperienced users, but the documentation (and help files!) are all in German. I'm struggling to get all of our programs working with it, but I think I'm missing some of the nuances of installation because of the language difficulty !!! Many thanks Craig Morgan Research Associate School of Computing Staffordshire Polytechnic, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1992 17:47:37 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Announcing ctt-Digest@SHSU.edu Keywords: ctt-Digest I want to thank the brave set of people who answered my plea for beta testers late last month. They provided me with invaluable guidance and suggestions in clearing up some of the problems I was afraid we might run across. At any rate........ I would like to announce the availability of yet another TeX-related list sponsored by and housed at Sam Houston State University -- ctt-Digest is a (most probably) multi-part daily digest of activity on the comp.text.tex newsgroup. ctt-Digest is *not* intended to include: (a) posts to comp.text.tex originating on INFO-TeX, nor (b) those periodicals included on TeX-Pubs (i.e, Texhax Digest, UKTeX Digest, TeXMaG, the "Frequently Asked Questions" and "FAQ Supplement" posts from comp.text.tex, and TUG's "TeX and TUG News"). When these periodicals are removed, it is noted at the end of that issue. Daily digests are designed to keep distribution parts under 42k in size to accommodate as many mailers as possible. Efforts are made to keep each comp.text.tex post in whole between parts (although certain size constraints may preclude this as a universal rule). In general, each day's distribution has been between 1 and 3 parts, but the number of parts will vary directly with comp.text.tex activity, as well as how spontaneously our news feed keeps up with traffic to SHSU. The ctt-Digest distribution is automatically processed and forwarded to subscribers at approximately 0200 Central Standard/Daylight Time (US). The address is restricted with respect to posting as it is purely a redistribution list. The posting address via mail to access comp.text.tex remains INFO-TeX@SHSU.BITNET (INFO-TeX@SHSU.edu), although posts to INFO-TeX will not appear in ctt-Digest. I would like to thank Mark Berryman at SAIC for working with me on providing the news feed to accomplish this project (as well as our much-improved inbound feed to comp.text.tex). If you would like to subscribe to ctt-Digest, please include the command: SUBSCRIBE ctt-Digest "Your Real Name in Quotes" in the body of a mail message to LISTSERV@SHSU.BITNET (LISTSERV@SHSU.edu). If you have any questions or comments about this new service (or any of our services), please contact me directly. Regards, and thanks once again to my testers, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 92 17:12:23 EST From: ccross@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Charles Cross) Subject: Seeking character set for ancient Greek Keywords: Ancient Greek, character set, LaTeX I have a colleague who would like to produce ancient Greek text using LaTeX, but the pre-defined set of accents and other marks doesn't include all of the ones he needs. (Also, he tells me that the character set for ancient Greek differs non-trivially from that for modern Greek.) Does any have (or know of) a full character set for ancient Greek? Thanks in advance, Chuck Cross ccross@aisun3.ai.uga.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 10:47:21 CST From: ST7749@SIUCVMB.bitnet (Your's truly.) Subject: Resume formatting Keywords: TeX, resume I use two versions of TeX - one on our IBM 370 running CMS and emTeX for the PC (thanks for the info on where to find it). I use both versions for writing papers for classes and, in conjunction with FWEB (thansk for info on that too!), program typesetting for personal and business use. I have, however, had some troubles getting TeX to generate a good resume. I use straight vanilla TeX, but have access to LaTeX and other style options. I have tried a resume in the past, but have found that I can't get TeX to position everything properly. Anyone with any experience using TeX for resume typesetting, or having a style sheet for resume formatting, please help me! I'm tired of using those damnable DOS word processors for a job best suited for TeX. Thanks in advance, please reply via the list or direct email. Jon L. Fincher, ST7749@siucvmb.siu.cdale.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 13:39:25 MEZ From: Sven Blankenberger Subject: Pageheader with LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, pageheader I'm using Stephen Gildea's style-file HEADERFOOTER.STY from 9 Dec 1988 to produce a pageheader which contains the chapter number, chapter title and page number in the following way: \section{Discussion} \pageheader{\thesection\ Discussion}{}{\thepage} \pagefooter{}{}{} \pageheaderlinetrue This works proper and is as you can see really easy. But if the new section starts just at the beginning of a page (first line of the page: e.g. 4 Discusssion) then the pageheader for this section starts one page to early. I asked Stephen Gildea and he answered that the reason for this unwanted behavior can be found on page 258 in _The TeXbook_. Well, I believe in this answer but would prefer a simple solution to avoid the problem. Any hints, ready-to-run solutions? Thank you in advance Sven Sven Blankenberger (e-mail: i3160903@dbstu1.bitnet) Dept. of Psychology University of Braunschweig Spielmannstr. 19 3300 Braunschweig, West Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 12:02:21 IST From: "Z. Rubinstein" Subject: A TeX Language Problem Keywords: TeX Can anyone help me with a solution in TeX language for a control sequence \charcode`\A=`B similar to \catcode to change temporarily the printed characters on a fixed font. Of course we assume that a solution using active characters is not practical. I will accept a solution on the dvi-to-dvi level if available. Thanks, Zalman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 FEB 92 10:02:38 GMT From: CDRCM@CR83.STAFPOL.AC.UK Subject: Re: EPS inclusion in OzTeX the easy way !! Keywords: EPS, OzTeX The previous digest (vol.92 #001) contained a work-around for easy positioning of EPS figures in OzTeX documents. A simpler (and a little more comprehensive) method is to get the TeX/LaTeX macro set BoxedEPSF.tex from your local LaTeX source. This package offers a standard graphics inclusion set of macro's across nearly all of the DVI drivers in general use, a previewing mode (which outlines the graphics position on-screen in OzTeX) where the BB of a figure will be visible, and scaling of the figure. It's a greta package which we now install and use on all of TeX/LaTeX platforms, as it gives us some standards and aids compatibility. Try it and see !!! Craig Morgan Research Associate School of Computing Staffordshire Polytechnic, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 07:28:45 EST From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: modes.mf 0.9 released Keywords: modes.mf I have released version 0.9 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!) file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'. It is about 42K. This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and `special' information. This version has several changes: * qms and LN01 are now write/white * the landscape macro calls fix_units * definitions for both write/white and write/black SparcPrinters * new modes for the IBM3179, IBM3193, and Atari96 devices. Also minor fixes in several other definitions. Thanks to issue@vax.oxford.ac.uk for a close reading of modes.mf and the many fixes resulting. If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the existing ones, please send them to me. karl@cs.umb.edu mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga mode_def AtariNineSix = % Atari 96x96 previewer mode_def AtariSLMEightZeroFour = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer mode_def AtariSMOneTwoFour = % Atari ST SM 124 screen mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 mode_def ApsSixHi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi mode_def boise = % HP 2680A mode_def CanonCX = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310 mode_def CItohEightFiveOneZero = % CItoh 8510A mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600 mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroMed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroLo = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family mode_def GThreefax = % 200 x 100dpi G3fax mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500 mode_def IBMD = % IBM 38xx mode_def IBMFourTwoFiveZero = % IBM 4250 mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216 mode_def IBMProPrinter = % IBM ProPrinter mode_def IBMSixOneFiveFour = % IBM 6154 display mode_def IBMSixSixSevenZero = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) mode_def IBMThreeOneSevenNine = % IBM 3179 screen mode_def IBMThreeOneNineThree = % IBM 3193 screen mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812 mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820 mode_def IBMEGA = % IBM EGA monitor mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75 mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01 mode_def LPSFourZero = % DEC LPS40 mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1 mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi mode_def NEC = % NEC mode_def NEChi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi mode_def Newgen = % Newgen 400dpi mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750-PS mode_def okidata = % Okidata mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03 mode_def SparcPrinterBlack = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/black mode_def SparcPrinterWhite = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/white mode_def StarNLOneZero = % Star NL-10 mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi mode_def VarityperFiveZeroSixZeroW = % Varitype 5060W mode_def VarityperFourTwoZeroZero = % Varityper Phototypesetter 4200 B-P mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600 mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor mode_def XeroxEightSevenNineZero = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def XeroxFourZeroFiveZero = % Xerox 4050 mode_def XeroxNineSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 9700 mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700 mode_def help = % What modes are defined? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% JANET users may choose to use %%% texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu %%% %%% Back issues available for FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU TeXhax/TeXhaxyy.nnn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nnn = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- 11-Mar-1992 21:17:23-GMT,19018;000000000001 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA25810; Wed, 11 Mar 92 14:17:19 MST Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1ju) id AA00631; Wed, 11 Mar 92 11:24:43 -0800 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 92 11:24:43 -0800 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9203111924.AA00631@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #004 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:;@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Monday, March 9, 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 004 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: HARVARD family of bibliographic styles on FILESERV Tex Question about underscore e-MATH.ams.com update IMPORTANT: Problem with letter document style: LaTeX release of Jan 92 dcolumn.sty -- decimal alignment in tabular and array ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 14:54:50 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: HARVARD family of bibliographic styles on FILESERV Keywords: bibliographic styles, HARVARD Peter Williams has patiently worked with me as I have gotten his HARVARD family of bibliographic styles arranged as a package for FILESERV/Niord. While these meet the specific needs of the bibliographic styles indicated, his extension of \citeasnoun in HARVARD.STY which is passed along for processing in BeaST language is interesting and quite useful. The HARVARD.TEX and HARVARD.BIB files provides excellent documentation for this family of new files, which are consistent with BibTeX 0.99a or later. Attached is the description file FILESERV will maintain for this package. I extend my thanks to Peter for his efforts. --George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% HARVARD ------- The HARVARD package includes the 6 files of Peter Williams' Harvard family of bibliographic styles. There are two primary forms of citation in the Harvard style, dependent upon whether the reference is used as a noun or parenthetically. To facilitate using a citation as a noun a new command \citeasnoun has been created which has the same syntax as the \cite command except that multiple citations are not permitted. Additionally, where there are more than two authors, all authors are listed in the first citation and in subsequent citations just the first author's name followed by `et al.' is used. Where appropriate, citations are abbreviated automatically after the first reference when bibliographies are produced by BibTeX. Provision is also made for this feature to be accessed during manual coding. There are three bibliography styles currently available within the Harvard family, AGSM (which is based on "Style Manual for authors editors and printers of Australian government publications"), DCU (which is based upon the conventions in use in the Design Computing Unit, Department of Architectural and Design Science, University of Sydney), and KLUWER (which aspires to conform to the requirements of Kluwer Academic Publishers). They are invoked by the \bibliographystyle within LaTeX and effect the layout of the entries in the bibliography. You may retrive the entire package of six files by including the command: SENDME HARVARD in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should only need one file, say, HARVARD.DCU_STY, include the command: SENDME HARVARD.DCU_STY in your request to FILESERV. These files are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.HARVARD]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: HARVARD.AGSM_BST 46 AGSM.BST HARVARD.DCU_BST 46 DCU.BST HARVARD.HARVARD_BIB 2 HARVARD.BIB HARVARD.HARVARD_STY 6 HARVARD.STY HARVARD.HARVARD_TEX 13 HARVARD.TEX HARVARD.KLUWER_BST 46 KLUWER.BST Approximate total blocks in full HARVARD package = 159 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 14:53:32 PST From: philips@espresso.boeing.com (Ivor Philips 5-3522) Subject: Tex Question about underscore Keywords: TeX, underscore Hello, I am not sure if this is a correct procedure. If it is not, please inform me of your usual way of handling enquiries. Basically, I have a question on Tex and I am told that this is an adress where I may be able to get some help from Tex experts. The problem I have is that I am typing a document in which _ (underscore) is used many times outside of math mode. It is proving to be very awkward to continually type \_. I would like to be able to use _ outside of math mode and have it print as _. At the same time, I wish it to keep its usual meaning (of subscript) inside mathmode. I note that verbatim mode is not what I need either because I am using the _'s inside normal English text, not as part of a computer program. Thank you for any help you can give me. Ivor R. Philips ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 15:18:39 -0500 (EST) From: Ralph Youngen Subject: e-MATH.ams.com update Keywords: AMS Update A new version of AMSPPT.STY for use with AMS-TeX v2.1 is now available on e-MATH.ams.com (130.44.1.100) for anonymous FTP in /ams/amstex/amsppt.sty. This new version of AMSPPT.STY fixes several bugs reported to the AMS over the past several months. Details of these bug fixes can be found in the file /ams/amstex/amstex.bug. In addition, AMS-LaTeX v1.1 has been tested to be compatible with the newest version of the font selection scheme for LaTeX. The most current version of the NFSS can also be found on e-MATH in /ams/amslatex/fontsel, and the most recent versions of latex.tex, lplain.tex, and lhyphen.tex can be found in /ams/amslatex/latex. As always, please report any problem with these or any other AMS-supported TeX products to the Internet address Tech-Support@math.ams.com. Ralph Youngen Technical Support Manager American Mathematical Society Internet: REY@MATH.AMS.COM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 19:24:48 +0100 From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf) Subject: IMPORTANT: Problem with letter document style: LaTeX release of Jan 92 Keywords: LaTeX, problem, letter document style The letter document style dated 5-Nov-91, contained in the Jan92 release of LaTeX has a severe problem: the spacing of the list environment and friends will come out wrong. The same problem appears in all document styles and style options that redefine the \begin{document} command. It is necessary to add the control sequence \@noskipsecfalse to the end of the definition of the \document macro. I append a diff to this message, so that you can update letter.doc, letter.sty, and latex.bug. The updated files will be available in the archives during next week. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany or *** general/latex.bug.old Fri Feb 21 17:22:08 1992 --- general/latex.bug Fri Feb 21 18:16:32 1992 *************** *** 1,6 **** LATEST VERSIONS OF FILES -- LaTeX Version 2.09 ! ADDENDUM.TEX 8 Apr 90 ARTICLE.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 LATEX.BUG 14 Jan 92 IDX.TEX 22 Jan 85 ART10.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 LATEX.INS 1 Dec 91 LABLST.TEX 5 Jan 85 ART11.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 LOCAL.GID 24 Sep 85 LATEX.TEX 14 Jan 92 ART12.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 --- 1,6 ---- LATEST VERSIONS OF FILES -- LaTeX Version 2.09 ! ADDENDUM.TEX 8 Apr 90 ARTICLE.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 LATEX.BUG 21 Feb 92 IDX.TEX 22 Jan 85 ART10.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 LATEX.INS 1 Dec 91 LABLST.TEX 5 Jan 85 ART11.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 LOCAL.GID 24 Sep 85 LATEX.TEX 14 Jan 92 ART12.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 *************** *** 11,17 **** MAKEINDEX.TEX 17 Feb 87 BK12.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 SAMPLE.TEX 9 Apr 86 FLEQN.DOC/STY 04 Nov 91 SFONTS.TEX 25 Nov 91 IFTHEN.DOC/STY 16 Jun 91 ! SLITEX.TEX 14 Jan 92 LETTER.DOC/STY 04 Nov 91 SMALL.TEX 5 Jul 85 LEQNO.DOC/STY 29 Sep 91 SPLAIN.TEX 14 Jan 92 MAKEIDX.DOC/STY 21 Oct 91 TESTPAGE.TEX 20 Jul 87 OPENBIB.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 --- 11,17 ---- MAKEINDEX.TEX 17 Feb 87 BK12.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 SAMPLE.TEX 9 Apr 86 FLEQN.DOC/STY 04 Nov 91 SFONTS.TEX 25 Nov 91 IFTHEN.DOC/STY 16 Jun 91 ! SLITEX.TEX 14 Jan 92 LETTER.DOC/STY 21 Feb 92 SMALL.TEX 5 Jul 85 LEQNO.DOC/STY 29 Sep 91 SPLAIN.TEX 14 Jan 92 MAKEIDX.DOC/STY 21 Oct 91 TESTPAGE.TEX 20 Jul 87 OPENBIB.DOC/STY 14 Jan 92 *************** *** 778,784 **** 176. \maketitle or other commands that internally invoke a list environment would not be detected before \begin{document}. (Corrected ! 26 Aug 91.) 177. Moved the \SLiTeX logo to latex.tex so that it can be used in LaTeX as well. (Change made 29 Sep 91.) --- 778,786 ---- 176. \maketitle or other commands that internally invoke a list environment would not be detected before \begin{document}. (Corrected ! 26 Aug 91.) NOTE: THIS CHANGE AFFECTS ALL STYLES AND STYLE OPTIONS ! THAT CHANGE THE \begin{document} COMMAND! IT IS NECESSARY TO ADD ! \@noskipsecfalse. 177. Moved the \SLiTeX logo to latex.tex so that it can be used in LaTeX as well. (Change made 29 Sep 91.) *************** *** 1172,1179 **** 76. Added explicit setting of \topskip in article, book, and report document styles. This is important for sizes 11pt and 12pt to avoid ! ``overfull vbox while output is active'' messages. (Suggested by Friedrich Haubensak. Change made 14 Jan 92.) CHANGES TO THE MANUAL --- 1174,1187 ---- 76. Added explicit setting of \topskip in article, book, and report document styles. This is important for sizes 11pt and 12pt to avoid ! ``overfull \vbox while \output is active'' messages. (Suggested by Friedrich Haubensak. Change made 14 Jan 92.) + + 77. Change no. 176 above had also to be done in the letter document + style. (Corrected 21 Feb 92.) + + 78. Fix no. 59 caused leading blanks in the argument of \begin{letter} + not to be ignored. (Reported by Will Partain. Corrected 21 Feb 92.) CHANGES TO THE MANUAL *** doc/letter.doc.old Fri Feb 21 17:22:31 1992 --- doc/letter.doc Fri Feb 21 17:29:38 1992 *************** *** 1,8 **** ! % LETTER STANDARD DOCUMENT STYLE -- Released 05 November 91 % for LaTeX version 2.09 % Copyright (C) 1991 by Leslie Lamport ! \typeout{Standard Document Style `letter' <05 Nov 91>.} % PREPARING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE VERSION: % --- 1,8 ---- ! % LETTER STANDARD DOCUMENT STYLE -- Released 21 February 92 % for LaTeX version 2.09 % Copyright (C) 1991 by Leslie Lamport ! \typeout{Standard Document Style `letter' <21 Feb 92>.} % PREPARING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE VERSION: % *************** *** 485,495 **** %% FMi & RmS: added \leavevmode to catch empty argument, 16 Aug 91 \long\def\letter#1{\newpage \c@page\@ne \interlinepenalty=200 % smaller than the TeXbook value ! \@processto{\leavevmode #1}} \def\endletter{\stopletter\@@par\pagebreak\@@par \if@filesw --- 485,496 ---- %% FMi & RmS: added \leavevmode to catch empty argument, 16 Aug 91 + %% RmS ...and added \ignorespaces, 21 Feb 92 \long\def\letter#1{\newpage \c@page\@ne \interlinepenalty=200 % smaller than the TeXbook value ! \@processto{\leavevmode\ignorespaces #1}} \def\endletter{\stopletter\@@par\pagebreak\@@par \if@filesw *************** *** 548,553 **** --- 549,557 ---- % This will also work with old lfonts if no other style defines % |\process@table|. % + % 92/02/21 RmS: added \@noskipsecfalse setting in conformance with + % change in latex.tex. + % \def\document{\endgroup \@colht\textheight \@colroom\textheight \vsize\textheight \columnwidth\textwidth \@clubpenalty\clubpenalty *************** *** 564,570 **** \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}% \@preamblecmds \let\do\noexpand ! \@normalsize\everypar{}} % Redefine \enddocument so it outputs the last page of labels, % if necessary. --- 568,574 ---- \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}% \@preamblecmds \let\do\noexpand ! \@normalsize\everypar{}\@noskipsecfalse} % Redefine \enddocument so it outputs the last page of labels, % if necessary. *** sty/letter.sty.old Fri Feb 21 17:22:40 1992 --- sty/letter.sty Fri Feb 21 17:36:05 1992 *************** *** 1,8 **** ! % LETTER STANDARD DOCUMENT STYLE -- Released 05 November 91 % for LaTeX version 2.09 % Copyright (C) 1991 by Leslie Lamport ! \typeout{Standard Document Style `letter' <05 Nov 91>.} \def\ccname{cc} \def\enclname{encl} --- 1,8 ---- ! % LETTER STANDARD DOCUMENT STYLE -- Released 21 February 92 % for LaTeX version 2.09 % Copyright (C) 1991 by Leslie Lamport ! \typeout{Standard Document Style `letter' <21 Feb 92>.} \def\ccname{cc} \def\enclname{encl} *************** *** 252,258 **** \long\def\letter#1{\newpage \c@page\@ne \interlinepenalty=200 ! \@processto{\leavevmode #1}} \def\endletter{\stopletter\@@par\pagebreak\@@par \if@filesw --- 252,258 ---- \long\def\letter#1{\newpage \c@page\@ne \interlinepenalty=200 ! \@processto{\leavevmode\ignorespaces #1}} \def\endletter{\stopletter\@@par\pagebreak\@@par \if@filesw *************** *** 314,320 **** \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}% \@preamblecmds \let\do\noexpand ! \@normalsize\everypar{}} \def\enddocument{\@checkend{document}\newpage\begingroup \if@filesw \immediate\closeout\@mainaux --- 314,320 ---- \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}% \@preamblecmds \let\do\noexpand ! \@normalsize\everypar{}\@noskipsecfalse} \def\enddocument{\@checkend{document}\newpage\begingroup \if@filesw \immediate\closeout\@mainaux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1992 11:45:45 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: dcolumn.sty -- decimal alignment in tabular and array Keywords: dcolumn.sty David Carlisle kindly forwarded me his new dcolumn.sty, which defines D to be an array or tabular column lined up on a `decimal point'. David understands (and I can report >From experience) that the existing decalign.sty does not work within the context of Frank Mittelbach's array.sty (the existing dectab.sty is inconsistent, at least in my experience). There is user-level control over the separator used in the .tex file, and in the printed output (i.e, it may be defined to any character, not necessarily only ``.''). This style is a creative example of the \newcolumn system for defining new column types set up in David's newarray.sty (which is required for the use of dcolumn, was also recently announced, and is available from here as well, should you need it). To retrieve dcolumn.sty, include the command: SENDME STY.DCOLUMN in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If you need [a] newarray.sty, [b] Mittelbach's array package to create his array.sty (both are required to use dcolumn), or [c] the doc.sty file from Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Schoepf's multicol package (needed to create the documentation for all of the above), include the respective commands shown below on unique lines of your mail message to FILESERV: SENDME STY.NEWARRAY SENDME ARRAY SENDME MULTICOL.DOC_STY For anonymous ftp users, the files are on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) as [.STY]STY.DCOLUMN, [.STY]STY.NEWARRAY, all files in the [.ARRAY] directory, and [.MULTICOL]MULTICOL.DOC_STY. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% JANET users may choose to use %%% texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu %%% %%% Back issues available for FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU TeXhax/TeXhaxyy.nnn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nnn = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- 15-Apr-1992 20:05:58-GMT,21840;000000000001 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA11428; Wed, 15 Apr 92 14:05:54 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1ju) id AA05778; Wed, 15 Apr 92 11:59:20 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 11:59:20 -0700 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9204151859.AA05778@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #005 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:;@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Monday, March 9, 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 005 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: TRANSFER of TeXhax to the UK **** New version of DVIDVI for VMS on FILESERV dcolumn.sty announcement -- correction and apologies Re: Indexing facility for TeX ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- N N OOOO TTTTTTT EEEEEE NN N O O T E N N N O O T E N N N O O T EEEE N N N O O T E N NN O O T E N N OOOO T EEEEEE TRANSFER of TeXhax to the UK This is the next to last issue of TeXhax to come out of the University of Washington. David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham has kindly (and bravely---he little knows) arranged to take over the moderation. Tiina is off to another part of the U.S., and my part in this effort has been barely a formality for a couple of years. I cannot find words adequate to express my appreciation of all the work that Tiina has done, often under rather trying curcumstances. We shall miss many parts of the association with TeXhax. There are others, such as the discovery that our first attempt to send out the digest from here coincided with the birth of the Loathly Worm of Sendmail, that are more interesting than pleasurable to remember. Thank you all for your patience at various difficult times, and an especial thanks to those who helped with the BITNET redistribution, something which we never really understood. I urge you to give David Osborne the same sort of support that you have given us. The new addresses for submissions and subscriptions are TeXhax@tex.ac.uk and TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 15:46:38 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: New version of DVIDVI for VMS on FILESERV Keywords: dvidvi for VMS Hunter Goatley brought to my attention and kindly provided me with a different version of the VMS port of DVIDVI (authored by Tony McGrath ). The new VMS_SHARE file has been installed on FILESERV/Niord for your convenience. Below is the description file for this package. My thanks are extended to Hunter for his efforts on this. --George =========================================================================== DVIDVI ------ The DVIDVI package includes Tony McGrath's port of Tom Rokicki's DVIDVI (version 0.5) program for VMS. DVIDVI lets you manipulate DVI files, performing tricks by extracting selected pages (or a selected ordering of pages) into a new DVI file. This newer port also provides fuller functionality in that it allows a user to extract certain pages from a document. The command: dvidvi m[n] file outfile will extract n pages starting at m. This is in addition to previously supported page reversal, extraction of only odd or even pages, preparation of folded brochures, and other items. The C source, along with a DCL build file and sample are provided. This version also includes Hunter Goatley's DUPLEX.COM, for poor-man's duplex printing. This package differs from the one which has been available previously from SHSU in that it uses C extensions to do the some things which the prior version relied on RMS calls to handle. The original DVIDVI created Stream_LF files under VMS; the VMS port of DVIPS V5.47 (as well as the new DVITYPE, the latest DECUS TeX programs, etc.) expects the file to consist of fixed-length, 512-byte records. This version of DVIDVI creates such files under VMS. Since this package is is specifically a VMS port and probably of interest only to VMS users, the sources necessary to rebuild this version are in a VMS_SHARE format. You may retrieve the VMS_SHARE file by including the command: SENDME DVIDVI in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp retrieval, this file is available from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.DVIDVI]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks DVIDVI.VMS_SHARE 63 Approximate total blocks in full DVIDVI package = 63 =============================================================================== NOTE: For users unfamiliar with FILESERV desiring an overview of the commands, use, and syntax of it, please include the command HELP in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 17:04:02 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: dcolumn.sty announcement -- correction and apologies Keywords: dcolumn.sty, modification In <009567CB.8D770FA0.9837@SHSU.edu> (Fri, 21 Feb 1992 11:45:45 CST), I posted an announcement about David Carlisle's dcolumn.sty. In it, I said: > If you need ... or [c] the doc.sty file from > Frank Mittelbach and Rainer Schoepf's multicol package (needed to create > the documentation for all of the above), include the respective commands > shown below on unique lines of your mail message to FILESERV: > ... > SENDME MULTICOL.DOC_STY Piet van Oostrum properly pointed out in article <1992Feb24.133618.19179@cs.ruu.nl> posted to comp.text.tex (and on to ctt-Digest) on 24 Feb 92 13:36:18 GMT: > The doc.sty forbids distribution of itself outside of the complete multicol > package. And subsequently, David posted to me in a private note: > I thought of [only retrieving the DOC.STY file alone], but unfortunately > doc.sty unconditionally inputs multicol.sty, this is for the index. My > files do not produce an index, as distributed, and every page only has one > column, but there on line 329, we have \input{multicol.sty}, so people need > the whole package. perhaps the comments in the template I use for my files > should be changed to `if you have Mittelbach's MULTICOL package ...' Or we > could get FM to re-organise things so that multicolumn.sty is only input if > needed. Therefore, be it resolved: 1. The proper (and requisite) command is *not* SENDME MULTICOL.DOC_STY; it properly is SENDME MULTICOL in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu); 2. I, too, know how to read and it is patently obvious in all of the files associated with MULTICOL that the package, in whole, is supposed to be distributed at one time -- I screwed up by trying to save a little bandwidth and I apologize for my ignorance; 3. I extend my sincerest apologies to both Frank and Rainer for suggesting that the single file out of any of their packages be retrieved individually -- I will never do this again; and finally, 4. I extend my sincerest apologies to anyone who retrieved only those files I identified and were unable to properly process the documentation. Might I suggest that, since an increasing number of authors are using doc.sty for documentation (a welcome movement since it is impossible to fetch a style without its documentation -- the largest cause of user error) and is a movement I personally wish was better documented for others to use, as well, that a DOC package be considered for development which is wholly independent of MULTICOL? Ideally, I guess I'm suggesting that it be capable of both including (for the use of authors) and extracting (for the use of end users) documentation. Possibly this already exists; if so, please pass it along to me or tell me where to fetch it from (with all the appropriate and requisite files 8-)). Regards and apologies once again, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 FEB 92 13:13:19 BST From: CHAA006@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk Subject: Re: Indexing facility for TeX Keywords: TeX, indexing Remo --- >>> I am just starting to write a book for the Cambridge University Press >>> and I have been requested to do it with Tex (rather than with Latex, >>> which I have been using for a long time). >>> The publisher provided me with their macros, which work all right. >>> However, there is indexing facility. I included the one Knuth used for >>> his book, but I am not very satisfied with it (especially because when I >>> type ^{H\'enon} for example, I get H{\accent 19} ... in the index file). >>> Would it be possible to have an index-maker which just writes on the >>> index file the entry as it is (including control symbols and math-mode >>> symbols) plus the page number (or even, when requested, "\bf pagenumber")? >>> I would appreciate very much of you could help me. >>> Another possibility would be to get a copy of the TUGboat {\bf 1} (1980), >>> paper by T. Winograd and B. Paxton, A1-A12, where an indexing macro is >>> presented. %%% -------- %%% There are three basic techniques which may be used to implement %%% cross-referencing in TeX: \catcode alteration, token list registers, %%% and \meaning (there is a fourth, the \protect bodge of LaTeX-2, %%% but that will not be further considered here). The basic %%% techniques may be used independently or in combination; a combination %%% is usually more efficient than any one technique. The techniques are %%% as follows: %%% 1) \catcode alteration: the key of the entity to be referenced is not %%% passed directly as a parameter to the cross-referencing macro, but %%% is subject to `delayed assignment'; the cross-referencing macro first %%% changes the category code of all characters to something innocuous, and %%% then calls a dependent macro which actually performs the cross- %%% referencing on the now-safe text. %%% Disadvantages: major consumer of CPU power if programmed defensively; %%% some means is needed of getting the non-passive form of the key if it %%% is also to be typeset (usually achieved by writing it twice to the XRF %%% file, and reading back one instance in passive mode, the other in %%% active). %%% 2) token-list registers: the key of the entity to be referenced is placed %%% in a token-list register, which is then expanded exactly once during the %%% \write operation; further expansion is automatically inhibited by the %%% nature of token-list registers. %%% Disadvantages: may only be used in \immediate \write contexts; deferred %%% \writes will allow the register to be overwritten by a later reference %%% on the same page. (It is rumoured there are ways around this but the %%%% present author remains to be convinced). %%% 3) \meaning: the key of the entity to be referenced is made the replacement %%% text of a macro; the \meaning of that macro, after removal of the %%% static components [macro ->], consists solely of \catcode 10 and \catcode %%% 12 tokens, both of which are safe for transput. %%% Disadvantages: when a token has been \let equal to a primitive, %%% \meaning can reflect the primitive rather than the token. %%% The following code demonstrates somewhat simplified techniques for %%% performing immediate and non-immediate cross-referencing (simplified %%% in that dependencies are left to the reader). Upper-case entities %%% are DEFINING occurences; lower-case entities are APPLIED occurrences. %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% Part-1: immediate cross-referencing (used for \figure, \table, etc.) %%% \Xref is the high-level defining macro which will be called by the %%% user command (e.g. \Figure, \Table, etc). \def \Xref #1#2#3% #1 is the generic tag (Figure, Table, etc); % #2 is the actual instance (i.e. the key); % #3 is the value. {\xreftoks = {#1:#2}% \immediate \write \xrefout {\noexpand \XREF {\the \xreftoks}{#3}}% } %%% \XREF is the internal macro which is used only within the cross-referencing %%% file; it performs catcode magic to ensure that the resulting \csname ... %%% \endcsname is valid, then transfers control to \AfterXREF after assigning %%% the now-safe composite key to \xreftoks. For pedadogic purposes only, %%% \PAGE has been declared as a synonym for \XREF (see below). \def \XREF {\begingroup \passivate \afterassignment \AfterXREF \global \xreftoks = } \def \AfterXREF {\endgroup \expandafter \def \csname \the \xreftoks \endcsname} \let \PAGE = \XREF %%% \xref is the applied counterpart of \Xref; %%% it uses techniques similar to \XREF, and transfers control to \afterxref. %%% \afterxref terminates the group (thereby reinstating the normal catcodes) %%% and transfer control to \postxref, which picks up as parameter the name %%% of the control sequence through which the equivalence string is to be %% returned. %%% \postxref returns [undefined] if the cross-reference is not resolvable, %%% otherwise returns the equivalence string; The result is returned in %% the third pseudo-parameter to \xref. %%% The second two are nested in the first to allow the parameter to \xref %%% to be implicitly passed to the two subordinate macros. \def \xref #1% {\def \postxref ##1% {\ifundefined {#1:\the \xreftoks}% \def ##1{[undefined]}% \else \edef ##1{\csname #1:\the \xreftoks \endcsname}% \fi }% \begingroup \def \afterxref {\endgroup \postxref}% \passivate \afterassignment \afterxref \global \xreftoks = } %%% \ifundefined is taken straight from Appendix-A \def \ifundefined #1{\expandafter \ifx \csname #1\endcsname \relax} %%% \passivate ensures that only `safe' catcodes remain; %%% is treated specially, as during the \write phase, %%% control words will be followed by a . \def \passivate {\loopcount = 0 \loop \ifcase \catcode \loopcount \catcode \loopcount = 12 %%% 0 \ --> \or \relax %%% 1 { \or \relax %%% 2 } \or \relax %%% 3 $ \or \relax %%% 4 & \or \relax %%% 5 ^^M \or \catcode \loopcount = 12 %%% 6 # --> \or \relax %%% 7 ^ \or \relax %%% 8 _ \or \relax %%% 9 ^^@ \or \catcode \loopcount = 9 %%% 10 --> \or \relax %%% 11 A \or \relax %%% 12 1 \or \catcode \loopcount = 12 %%% 13 ~ --> \or \relax %%% 14 % \or \relax %%% 15 ^^? \else \catcode \loopcount = 12 %%% ?? --> \fi \ifnum \loopcount < 255 \advance \loopcount by 1 \repeat } %%% Try to read the previous cross-reference file: \newread \xrefin \newwrite \xrefout \newtoks \xreftoks \newcount \loopcount \def \xrefile {\jobname.XRF} \openin \xrefin = \xrefile \relax \ifeof \xrefin \closein \xrefin \message {Warning: cross-reference file \xrefile \space does not exist}% \else \closein \xrefin \input \xrefile \fi %%% Then open a new cross-reference file for output (defensive programming %%% would require that this be a temporary file, to be copied to the real %%% XRF file only at end-of-job). \immediate \openout \xrefout = \xrefile \relax %%% Now a simple demonstration of its use: the \Xref|\xref commands would %%% normally be called from higher-level user commands such as \Figure|\figure, %%% \Table|\table, etc. \Xref {Figure}{\TeX{}$&^_^^@ A1~}{1.234} \xref {Figure}{\TeX{}$&^_^^@ A1~}{\crossref} \message {The reference for the figure with the unpronounceable name is: Fig. \crossref} %%% \immediate \closeout \xrefout %%% but we're going to re-use the file here %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% Part-2: deferred cross-referencing (used where a page number, or any %%% quantity only known at \shipout time is required). Much of the preceding %%% code is be re-cycled here for efficiency. %%% \Page is the high-level defining macro which will be called by the %%% user command. The resulting line in the cross-reference file will %%% by \PAGE {generic-tag:specific tag}{page-number}; for the purposes %%% of demonstration only, \PAGE has been let equal to \XREF; however, %%% if used purely for indexing purposes, the number of unique control %%% sequences created would be untenable, and in a production indexing %%% environment the cross-referencing file would not be re-read by TeX %%% at all (or at least, not until post-processed by something such as %%% IdxTeX or MakeIndex). A suitable re-definition of \PAGE is left to %%% the reader. \def \Page #1#2% #1 is the generic tag; % #2 is the actual instance (i.e. the key); % #3 is implicit; the page number on which this item occurs. {\def \temp {#1:#2}% \write \xrefout {\noexpand \PAGE {\Meaning \temp \EndMeaning}% {\the \pageno}% }% } %%% \page is the applied counterpart of \Xref; it is simply a synonym for %%% \xref, since their functionality is identical. \let \page = \xref %%% \Meaning expands \meaning, which itself expands \temp; %%% \Meaning then transfers control to \AfterMeaning, %%% which strips off the punctuation from the output of \meaning, %%% leaving the bare replacement text with catcodes 10 & 12 only. \def \Meaning {\expandafter \AfterMeaning \meaning} \def \AfterMeaning #1->#2\EndMeaning {#2} %%% \openout \xrefout = \xrefile \relax %%% We've left it open for demo. only \Page {Index}{This page [\TeX{}$&^_^^@ A1~]} \page {Index}{This page [\TeX{}$&^_^^@ A1~]}{\crossref} \message {The reference for the page with the unpronounceable name is: Page \crossref} \closeout \xrefout %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% Conclusions: These techniques demonstrate that cross-referencing in %%% TeX may be achieved without insuperable difficulty, provided that %%% expansion is suppressed by one of several means. Please note that %%% this code was written, from cold, between 22:30 last night and 01:00 %%% this morning; caveat emptor! %%% Copyright (C) MCMLXXXXII Philip Taylor %%% ``The University of London at Windsor'' \end ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu %%% JANET users may choose to use %%% texhax-request@uk.ac.nsf %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu %%% %%% Back issues available for FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU TeXhax/TeXhaxyy.nnn %%% yy = last two digits of current year %%% nnn = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- 17-Apr-1992 2:12:19-GMT,22798;000000000001 Received: from june.cs.washington.edu by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA22430; Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:12:17 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Received: by june.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1ju) id AA06882; Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:10:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:10:18 -0700 Return-Path: Message-Id: <9204170010.AA06882@june.cs.washington.edu> Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #006 From: TeXhax Digest Errors-To: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu Maint-Path: TeXhax-request@cs.washington.edu To: TeXhax-Distribution-List:;@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: TeXhax@cs.washington.edu TeXhax Digest Thursday, April 16, 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 006 Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% %%% in cooperation with the UnixTeX distribution service at the %%% %%% University of Washington %%% Today's Topics: TRANSFER of TeXhax to the UK -30- mode_def for NEC Silentwriter2 S60P ?? re: Trademark symbol under LaTeX?? color text using dvips eqnarray environment Eplain 2.0 released Eplain 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord Sfware programs available on FILESERV/Niord ENDFLOAT.STY available at FILESERV/Niord ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- N N OOOO TTTTTTT EEEEEE NN N O O T E N N N O O T E N N N O O T EEEE N N N O O T E N NN O O T E N N OOOO T EEEEEE TRANSFER of TeXhax to the UK This is the last issue of TeXhax to come out of the University of Washington. David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham has kindly (and bravely---he little knows) arranged to take over the moderation. Tiina is off to another part of the U.S., and my part in this effort has been barely a formality for a couple of years. I cannot find words adequate to express my appreciation of all the work that Tiina has done, often under rather trying curcumstances. We shall miss many parts of the association with TeXhax. There are others, such as the discovery that our first attempt to send out the digest from here coincided with the birth of the Loathly Worm of Sendmail, that are more interesting than pleasurable to remember. Thank you all for your patience at various difficult times, and an especial thanks to those who helped with the BITNET redistribution, something which we never really understood. I urge you to give David Osborne the same sort of support that you have given us. The new addresses for submissions and subscriptions are TeXhax@tex.ac.uk and TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 MAR 92 10:15:56 GMT From: CDRCM@CR83.STAFPOL.AC.UK Subject: mode_def for NEC Silentwriter2 S60P ?? Keywords: mode_def I think the subject line says it all, can anybody direct me to a the whereabouts of a mode_def for the NEC Silentwriter2 S60P model. It seems to print HP Laserjet generated TeX fonts OK, but they are not ideal .......... Thanks for your help Craig Morgan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 21:18:28 EDT From: Jerry Leichter Subject: re: Trademark symbol under LaTeX?? Keywords: LaTeX, trademark There is no trademark symbol in any of the standard TeX fonts. However, it's not hard to build one. I have two definitions that I've used; they differ in how they adapt when used at different sizes. The first does the obvious thing and scales along with the current text size. Unfortunately, this doesn't look good at very large sizes: % % A "trademark" symbol. This doesn't look too good at sizes \huge and \Huge. % \def\tm{$\m@th^{^{\rm T\kern -.04em M}}$} The alternative is to fix the size: % % A "trademark" symbol, fixed in size. % \def\tm{$\m@th^{^{\hbox{\tiny T\kern -.04em M}}}$} Each looks best in different circumstances; you'll have to try them and see which works for you. Notes: The second solution won't work with the New Font Selection Scheme unless it's used in compatibility mode, as it assumes that \tiny implies \rm. The fix should be obvious.... In some situations, \sf may look better than \rm. Both of these definitions are meant to appear in a style file, as they use an internal macro, \m@th. You can also just put a \makeatletter before the definition and a \makeatother after it. (Only the definition needs special treatment, not uses of the resulting macro.) Use \tm just after the trademarked\tm word; don't put a space before it. Don't use \tm in math mode. (If for some reason you need it there, put it in an \hbox.) -- Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 18:29:38 EST From: prange@ironwood (Michael Prange) Subject: color text using dvips Keywords: dvips, color text Is there some \special command I can enclose text in to get dvips to set the text in a specified color? I'm wondering if this is a simple thing to do. Please reply to me as I don't subscribe to this list. Michael prange@sdr.slb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 92 09:19:52 -0500 From: Todd Jay Mitty Subject: eqnarray environment Keywords: eqnarray Is there a simple way to obtain left-justified text in an eqnarray env.? If "\lefteqn" is used with a "\parbox", the parbox's left margin appears to get centered in the environment. Basically, I have three equations which I'd like to have aligned on the "=" sign. Additionally, I would like to describe each equation with a few words of text. Thus, my dilema. Todd --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 92 20:13:56 EST From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: Eplain 2.0 released Keywords: Eplain 2.0 I have released Eplain version 2.0. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z} ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.0.tar.Z You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. (George will be posting a message with more details soon.) It has been almost a year since Eplain 1.9. As you might expect, there are many changes. (Many bugs have concomitantly been introduced, I expect.) As far as I know, the changes are all upward-compatible. Here are some of the highlights: In btxmac: * generally more configurable * numeric labels are right-justified * spaces are ignored before optional arguments * page breaks are disallowed (by default) before the bibliography * support for multiple bibliographies * works (insofar as possible) with AMSTeX In eplain: * includes Steven Smith's ``arrow.tex'', a set of macros for producing commutative diagrams * includes Nelson Beebe's texnames.sty to define the various names of TeXware * a \verbatim macro to typeset inline verbatim stuff * lists are more configurable * the justification commands handle text on the same line as the command * support for subequations like (1.1a), (1.1b) * a new and (I hope) more robust implementation of \leftdisplays For those (no doubt many) of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1992 10:25:45 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Eplain 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: Eplain 2.0 In <9203060113.AA09179@claude.cs.umb.edu> (Thu, 5 Mar 92 20:13:56 EST), Karl Berry posted: >I have released Eplain version 2.0. It is available by ftp from > > ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z} > ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.0.tar.Z > > You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you > cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like > `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. (George will be posting a message with more > details soon.) Since we are the main mail repository (with ftp access for the individual files or the compressed tar file also), I am appending FILESERV's description file below. I extend my thanks to Karl for allowing us to work with him on this project. --George =========================================================================== EPLAIN ------ The EPLAIN package includes the macros for version 2.0 (March 5, 1992) of Karl Berry's Eplain for TeX. The eplain macro package expands on the definitions in plain TeX. Eplain is not intended to provide "intensional" typesetting capabilities, like LaTeX or Texinfo. Instead, it provides definitions that are intended to be useful regardless of the high-level commands that you use when you actually prepare your manuscript. To retrieve the complete EPLAIN package of 78 files, include the command: SENDME EPLAIN in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should only need one of these files, say EPLAIN.OUTER_TEX, use the command: SENDME EPLAIN.OUTER_TEX in your MAIL message to FILESERV. Anonymous ftp users can find these files on Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory [.EPLAIN]. A compressed U*ix tar (EPLAIN-2_0.TAR_Z) file is in this directory also. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: Directory: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPLAIN.ALLREF_TEX 1 ALLREF.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.ARROW_TEXINFO 48 ARROW.TEXINFO Eplain's doc EPLAIN.BOXES_TEX 1 BOXES.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.BOXIT_TEX 2 BOXIT.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.BTXDOC_TEX 85 BTXDOC.TEX Eplain's doc EPLAIN.BTXMAC_TEX 68 BTXMAC.TEX Eplain's root EPLAIN.CENTER_TEX 1 CENTER.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CHANGELOG_ROOT 88 CHANGELOG Eplain's root EPLAIN.CHANGELOG_TEST 2 CHANGELOG Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITEALL_TEX 1 CITEALL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITEALPH_TEX 2 CITEALPH.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITEAPA_TEX 2 CITEAPA.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITECUST_TEX 3 CITECUST.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITENOTE_TEX 1 CITENOTE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITEX_TEX 1 CITEX.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITE_BIB 2 CITE.BIB Eplain's test EPLAIN.CITE_TEX 3 CITE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.COLUMN2_TEX 5 COLUMN2.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.COLUMN3_TEX 2 COLUMN3.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.COLUMN_TEX 27 COLUMN.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.COMMDIAGS_TEX 9 COMMDIAGS.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.CONTENTS_TEX 2 CONTENTS.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.DISPLINE_TEX 2 DISPLINE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.DOUBLE_TEX 2 DOUBLE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.EMERGNCY_TEX 2 EMERGNCY.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.ENV_TEX 2 ENV.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO 6 EPLAIN.INFO Eplain's doc EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-1_1OF2 78 EPLAIN.INFO-1 Eplain's doc EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-1_2OF2 24 (part 2 of 2) EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-2_1OF2 78 EPLAIN.INFO-2 Eplain's doc EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-2_2OF2 26 (part 2 of 2) EPLAIN.EPLAIN_INFO-3 57 EPLAIN.INFO-3 Eplain's doc EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX 88 EPLAIN.TEX Eplain's root EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEXINFO_1OF3 79 EPLAIN.TEXINFO Eplain's doc EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEXINFO_2OF3 80 (part 2 of 3) EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEXINFO_3OF3 41 (part 3 of 3) EPLAIN.EQREF_TEX 8 EQREF.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.ETEX_TEX 1 ETEX.TEX Eplain's root EPLAIN.FILEXIST_TEX 2 FILEXIST.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.FOOTNOTE_TEX 6 FOOTNOTE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.FRAC_TEX 1 FRAC.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.GCOL_TEX 17 GCOL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.INSTALL 50 INSTALL Eplain's root EPLAIN.JUSTIFY_TEX 5 JUSTIFY.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.KNUTH_BIB 2 KNUTH.BIB Eplain's test EPLAIN.LABEL_TEX 1 LABEL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.LATEXCITE_TEX 1 LATEXCITE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.LEFT_TEX 7 LEFT.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.LISTING_TEX 1 LISTING.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.LIST_TEX 6 LIST.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.LOGO_TEX 1 LOGO.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.MAKECOL_TEX 1 MAKECOL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.MAKEFILE 7 MAKEFILE Eplain's root EPLAIN.MARGIN_TEX 5 MARGIN.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.MDISPLAY_TEX 9 MDISPLAY.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.MERGE 5 MERGE Eplain's root EPLAIN.NOBIB_TEX 1 NOBIB.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.NONOUTER_TEX 1 NONOUTER.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.OPTIONAL_TEX 2 OPTIONAL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.OUTER_TEX 2 OUTER.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.PAGE_TEX 1 PAGE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.PCOL_TEX 11 PCOL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.PROJECTS 3 PROJECTS Eplain's root EPLAIN.README 6 README Eplain's root EPLAIN.RULE_TEX 2 RULE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.TEXINFO_TEX_1OF3 80 TEXINFO.TEX Eplain's doc EPLAIN.TEXINFO_TEX_2OF3 80 (part 2 of 3) EPLAIN.TEXINFO_TEX_3OF3 56 (part 3 of 3) EPLAIN.TEXNAMES_STY 23 TEXNAMES.STY Eplain's root EPLAIN.TIME_TEX 1 TIME.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.USCORE_BIB 1 USCORE.BIB Eplain's test EPLAIN.USCORE_TEX 1 USCORE.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.VERBATIM_TEX 2 VERBATIM.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.WHITESPC_TEX 4 WHITESPC.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.XAMPL_TEX 1 XAMPL.TEX Eplain's test EPLAIN.XEPLAIN_TEX_1OF2 79 XEPLAIN.TEX Eplain's root EPLAIN.XEPLAIN_TEX_2OF2 43 (part 2 of 2) EPLAIN.XREF_TEX 2 XREF.TEX Eplain's test Approximate total blocks in full EPLAIN package = 1459 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 12:35:59 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Sfware programs available on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: Sfware, soft fonts Norm Walsh (author of the popular SFPtoPK, PKtoSFP, and MergeSFP utilities for softfont conversions to and from PK formats) forwarded me his new Sfware collection for even more extensive font handling. Norm's obsession with collecting fonts clearly has a benefit for the TeX community. Below is the FILESERV description file for this new package. My thanks are extended to Norm for providing them for our distribution. --George =========================================================================== SFWARE ------ The SFWARE package includes four UUENCODEd ZIP files for Norm Walsh's (walsh@cs.umass.edu) utilities which allow you to download, rotate, compress, expand, view, and perform special effects on softfonts. The effects provided include bold, fill, convert to fixed spacing, halftone, hollow, invert, mirror, outline, convert to proportional spacing, resize, reverse, shade, shadow, slant, stripe, three-d, hollow-three-d, and filled-three-d effects. The effects can be tailored and customized for any font with various parameters and shading patterns. Sfware is distributed in four archive files: SFW100P1, SFW100P2, SFW100D1, and SFW100D2. The 'P' archives contain the programs and the 'D' archives contain documentation. It is absolutely vital that you have BOTH program archives before you try to use Sfware. These programs only work under MS-DOS. The menu-shell requires a hard disk and 400+kb of memory. The special effects cannot be applied to scalable fonts. These programs are shareware. What you need: SFW100P1.ZIP SFW100P2.ZIP These archives contain the programs for Sfware. You must get both of these archives or Sfware will not work! SFW100D1.ZIP SFW100D2.ZIP These archives contain the documentation. The "D1" archive documents the full-screen shell. The "D2" archive documents the command line utilities. It is recommended that you start with the full-screen shell and move on to the command-line interface if you find a need. These files are available for retrieval via mail by including the command: SENDME SFWARE in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should only require a specific file, say, SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_05OF13, include the command: SENDME SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_05OF13 in your mail message to FILESERV. The SFW100P1.ZIP, SFW100P2.ZIP, SFW100D1.ZIP, and SFW100D2.ZIP files are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory [.SFWARE]. Files added to this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: UUDECODEs to: SFWARE.SFW100_TXT 2 SFW100.TXT N/A SFWARE.SFW100D1_UUE_01OF10 79 SFW100D1.UUE SFW100D1.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 9) SFWARE.SFW100D1_UUE_09OF10 SFWARE.SFW100D1_UUE_10OF10 39 part 10 SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_1OF8 79 SFW100D2.UUE SFW100D2.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 7) SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_7OF8 SFWARE.SFW100D2_UUE_8OF8 69 part 8 SFWARE.SFW100P1_UUE_01OF12 79 SFW100P1.UUE SFW100P1.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 11) SFWARE.SFW100P1_UUE_11OF12 SFWARE.SFW100P1_UUE_12OF12 77 part 12 SFWARE.SFW100P2_UUE_01OF13 79 SFW100P2.UUE SFW100P2.ZIP through each (UUENCODED parts 1 though 12) SFWARE.SFW100P2_UUE_12OF13 SFWARE.SFW100P2_UUE_13OF13 44 part 13 Approximate total blocks in SFWARE package = 3,312 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1992 14:06:19 CST From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: ENDFLOAT.STY available at FILESERV/Niord Keywords: ENDFLOAT.STY James Darrell McCauley forwarded me his official release version (1.0) of his endfloat.sty (a beta version had been posted to comp.text.tex earlier). The purpose of this style is to put all figures on pages by themselves at the end of an article in a section named Figures. Likewise for tables. Reference can be made in the text of where the figure should have been (only caption appears - see \markersintext and \nomarkersintext [default] below. \ref and \label always works on the ones at the end). The default language of this style is English; specific instructions for using this in a foreign language are provided within the comments of the file. To retrieve this file via e-mail, please include the command: SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). The file is available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory [.STY] as STY.ENDFLOAT. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. 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LaTeX updates, as of March 18, 1992. Looking for Skip Montanaro aFrican Computer fonts available Info about hyphen eplain 2.1 released CWEB for 386/486 systems running DOS ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 15:00:48 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Moderator's note Welcome to the first issue of TeXhax to be sent out from the UK. I'm David Osborne, and I'm currently on the committee of the UK TeX Users Group, as well as a long-serving member of the informal group which maintains the UK TeX Archive at Aston University, on host tex.ac.uk. For the last couple of years, I have been moderating the UKTeX Digest. My co-moderator, Peter Abbott, of Aston University, will need no introduction to many of you, being the `father' of the Aston Archive, and now chairman of the UK TeX Users Group. Peter will be stepping in to put together an issue or two while I'm out of the country for most of May, on my honeymoon. He has a few words to say below on the new distribution arrangements. To start with, we plan to keep to the format for the Digest which Pierre MacKay and Tiina Modisett developed at the University of Washington. My thanks go to them for the sterling work they've done in keeping this forum going as an information exchange for TeX users worldwide, and for their assistance in its move to its new UK home. However, if you have views on what TeXhax should or should not offer to its readers, Peter and I would be pleased to hear them: please mail them to TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk. I have been a regular TeXhax reader for several years, going back to the days when Malcolm Brown of Stanford was moderator, so I'm conscious of the responsibility and honour that goes with assuming the role of moderator. There will no doubt be some distribution problems at first, but I hope you will be patient while I sort these out; a digest with a distribution list in excess of 1100 addresses is no small task. By comparison, UKTeX has a distribution list of around 360 addresses. We plan to keep UKTeX and TeXhax as separate digests: UKTeX is slanted more towards UK issues, as befits the name, and has more news relating to additions to the UK TeX Archive. Some people have asked if their TeXhax subscriptions need to be renewed. That won't be necessary, as Pierre sent me his lists from Washington and I have set those up here. In this issue, I'm catching up on some of the backlogged messages which had accumulated at Washington --- I hope to get nearly up to date with the next issue. Finally, we welcome your contributions, be they questions, answers or announcements relating to TeX and all its related software, such as LaTeX, METAFONT and device drivers. We look forward to hearing from you. - --Dave David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK (Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064) TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk or d.osborne@mips.nott.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 09:28:35 -0100 From: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax TeXhax will be supported by the Aston Archive Group and the UK TeX User Group for a minimum period of 3 years from this issue. TUG has provided 5000 US dollars to cover part purchase of equipment for this service and the remainder has been paid by the UKTeX User group and Aston University. David Osborne and Peter Abbott (Archivists and Moderators of UKTeX) will act as moderators of TeXhax. TeXhax will be posted regularly and it is planned to retain the same format for the time being. The may be teething problems with addresses but we have direct internet and JANET connections. Contibutions should be sent to Internet TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Janet TeXhax@uk.ac.tex Subscription requests and administration to Internet TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Janet TeXhax-Request@uk.ac.tex Peter Tel 44 (0)21 359 5492 direct FAX 44 (0)21 359 6158 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 11:43:30 +0800 From: Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah Subject: Landscape in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, landscape I would like to know how to typeset and print a document in LaTeX. Please respond by email. Thanks in advance. Napi email: napi@jaring.ism.my ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 03:02:00 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V92 #004 Keywords: TeX, underscore Re: TeX Q.about underscore I did not test it, but the following should work: \catcode`\_=\active % Change the catcode of the underscore and define it \def_{\ifmmode\sb% The original meaning of _ in math mode is saved in \sb % This does plain for you (--> deficient keyboards) \else\_\fi}% Otherwise, it should be \_ Yours, J"org Knappen. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Mar 92 13:41:57 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: version 1.2 of Sauter files (any point size Computer Modern) Keywords: METAFONT, Sauter, Computer Modern, fonts I've again updated my packaging for Unix of John Sauter's Metafont files to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size. You can get version 1.2 by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/sauter.tar.Z. This version puts in the bold-math.mf file that I somehow left out last time. It also adds two files to make the LaTeX symbol and bold symbol fonts, contributed by Friedrich Haubensak, hsk@infko.uni-koblenz.de. For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the same TFM files as Knuth's sources. So it is ok to call the output from these `cm...'. The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for dvips which take advantage of these fonts. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Mar 92 14:44:11 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: INCLUDE Preprocessor available on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, \input, preprocessor There has been some recent discussion about an \include or \input preprocessor for (La)TeX. Charles Franklin forwarded me his package for doing this, which is now available from FILESERV/Niord. Below is the FILESERV description file for the package. Thanks to Charles for contributing this to the TeX community and for allowing us to distribute it. - --George =========================================================================== INCLUDE ------- The INCLUDE package includes a uuencoded .ZIP file including the Pascal source, executable, and documentation for Charles H. Franklin's INCLUDE utility (v1.5). This program replaces LaTeX "\include{myfile}" and "\input{myfile}" statements with the actual contents of the included file. "Inputfile", "outputfile" and "myfile"s are assumed to have extension ".tex" if none is given. If no "outputfile" is given, the output is written on "included.tex". "Inputfile" can be a TeX file or it can be a simple list of \include (or \input) statements. Included files may themselves contain \include or \input statements. This nesting can be up to 14 files deep. No file may include a file in which it is itself already included. To do so would cause an infinite loop. Charles notes in his contribution: > I've been using INCLUDE for about a year and it works fine for me. > However, no one else has tried it, so I expect to get bug reports from > those who try it. To retrieve INCLUDE, please include the command: SENDME INCLUDE in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp retrieval, the file is in the [.INCLUDE] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDE.UUE 30 INCLUDE.UUE (UUdecodes to INCLUDE.ZIP; ZIP file has INCLUDE.EXE, INCLUDE.PAS, and INCLUDE.DOC Approximate total blocks in full INCLUDE package = 30 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 92 02:33:15 +0000 From: news@ads.com, chyde@pecos.ads.com (Clinton Hyde) Subject: need MF help! Keywords: METAFONT, base I am trying to run MF. I need help doing something. I get a message saying "Can't find PLAIN base file" [or some such]. I tracked down a file called plain.base, but it appears to be damaged. what I need actually is cmbx10.390pk, I had figured to create this via MF (i've done such things before, but it's been over 2 yrs, at a different employer, with different computers, where I didn't have these problems). anyway, can someone point me at another archive (i've tried labrea.stanford.edu, which is where the damaged plain.base file came >From in the first place) where I can find a good plain.base, or email one, or email me the cmbx10.390pk file ?? someone else here needs cmr11.300gf, i think, too. I don't have a great need to do lots of MF work, just this one immediate need. -- clint - -- Clint Hyde "Give me a LispM or give me death!" -- jwz Advanced Decision Systems Internet: chyde@chesapeake.ads.com 2111 Wilson Blvd #800 Arlington, VA 22201 (703) 875-0327 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 11:06:25 -0500 From: skh@lcl.cmu.edu Subject: \bigsqcap, how to get Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, \bigsqcap Folks, I'm posting this here because of the limited time I have to investigate this (due to travel) and my limited experience with TeX and LaTeX. One of my users needs a \bigsqcap, analagous to the \bigsqcup (as \bigcap is to \bigcup); otherwise the book is nearly complete. Does a more recent version of TeX/LaTeX have this symbol? [ We're using TeX 3.0 with LaTeX 2.09 ] Is there another math font library that's basically the same as the standard one with this additional symbol (and perhaps others)? Is there any tricky way to get this symbol (in an equation) with minimal changes to the installation? - -- Steve Handerson System Manager, Laboratory for Computational Linguistics Carnegie-Mellon University ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 16:22:38 +0000 From: Thouverez Fabrice Subject: TeX installation questions Keywords: TeX, installation, X11 Researcher : Thouverez Fabrice Laboratory : Mechanics Lyon, France IP=156.18.20.3 Mister, I have some questions about Tex . On my sytem we have never installed Tex. But now some people of our laboratory are interessted to use Tex Then, I will know what kind of file i have need to use Tex with X11 soft and if it's possible. Sincerely yours ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 18:36:27 +0000 From: TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk Subject: TeX v3.141 now in the Aston Archive Keywords: TeX, 3.141, Aston Archive Don Knuth has just announced the release of revised versions of TeX and many of its friends and relations. These will all be installed on the Aston Archive over the next few days/weeks; as a start, the file [tex-archive.tex]tex.web is now the source of this latest revision, at v3.141. The change file for the VMS implementation will be found as [tex-archive.tex.vms]tex.ch. The previous two versions of the TeX source remain (for the time being) as [tex-archive.tex]tex.web-3-1 and [tex-archive.tex]tex.web-3-14; they may be deleted at some time in the future after change files for all other implemenations have been installed in the archive. [Note for fellow archivists (and anyone else that's interested): I have followed a new practice on this occasion --- the timestamp of the tex.web source has been manually edited to match that of the canonical source file at Labrea --- since the latter is timed at 05:10 local (presumably PST) on the 16th March, the Aston copy is timed at 13:10 GMT on the same day. I would strongly advocate that all other archives attempt to follow this practice: it helps both ourselves and our clients --- it would be even better if an FTP directory listing could be obtained with a fixed time datum, such as GMT! ] Brian {Hamilton Kelly} +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ + JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs + + BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk + + INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk + + UUCP: {mcsun,ukc,uunet}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex + + Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military + + College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. + + Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International) + +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 18:09:49 -0300 From: Gabriel Valiente Subject: 14pt styles for LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, 14pt style, slides I'm looking for 14pt (or larger) styles for LaTeX, for producing slides out of documents. Thank you in advance for any help in locating them. Please answer directly to valiente@ceab.es because I don't receive TeXhax Digest. Gabriel Valiente ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 17:03:35 +0000 From: CHAA006@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk Subject: Re: Ancient Greek; catcodes; underscores. Keywords: TeX, ancient Greek, catcodes, underscore >>> From: ccross@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Charles Cross) >>> Subject: Seeking character set for ancient Greek >>> Keywords: Ancient Greek, character set, LaTeX >>> I have a colleague who would like to produce ancient Greek text using >>> LaTeX, but the pre-defined set of accents and other marks doesn't include >>> all of the ones he needs. (Also, he tells me that the character set for >>> ancient Greek differs non-trivially from that for modern Greek.) >>> Does any have (or know of) a full character set for ancient Greek? I think you might usefully consider Silvio Levy's Greek font (includes rough and smooth breathing, diaritics and iota subscript), and Yannis Haralambous's `ScholarTeX'. - -------- >>> From: philips@espresso.boeing.com (Ivor Philips 5-3522) >>> Subject: Tex Question about underscore >>> Keywords: TeX, underscore >>> The problem I have is that I am typing a document in which _ >>> (underscore) is used many times outside of math mode. It is proving to >>> be very awkward to continually type \_. I would like to be able to use >>> _ outside of math mode and have it print as _. At the same time, I >>> wish it to keep its usual meaning (of subscript) inside mathmode. I >>> note that verbatim mode is not what I need either because I am using >>> the _'s inside normal English text, not as part of a computer program. To allow underscore to be usable is a `normal' character in text mode, it suffices to change its category code to either 11 (letter) or 12 (other). 12 would be better unless you also want it to appear in control sequences: \catcode `\_ = 12 To allow it to retain its original semantics in maths mode, you could either use \everymath and \everydisplay: \everymath = {\catcode `\_ = 8 } \everydisplay = {\catcode `\_ = 8 } or you could make it active in maths-mode only, with an expansion of a \catcode 8 underscore: \def \subscript {_} \catcode `\_ = 13 \edef _{\subscript} \catcode `\_ = 12 \mathcode `\_ = "8000 Philip Taylor ``The University of London at Windsor'' ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 19:13:15 +0100 From: schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (Rainer Schoepf) Subject: LaTeX updates, as of March 18, 1992. Keywords: LaTeX, updates plain.tex has been updated recently by Donald Knuth. I take the opportunity to update the corresponding LaTeX files as well. At the same time, a number of minor problems and oversights have been corrected. For a detailed list consult the file latex.bug. The following files have been changed: latex.bug latex.tex local.tex lplain.tex slitex.tex splain.tex lcircle10.mf lcirclew10.mf line.mf line10.mf linew10.mf proc.doc bezier.sty letter.sty proc.sty Note: the changes to the Metafont files do not affect the fonts themselves, they provide better error checking when Metafont is used with the wrong base file. Therefore it is NOT necessary to recompile the fonts. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!'' Federal Republic of Germany or ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 20:33:07 +0100 From: Thomas Hoerkens Subject: Looking for Skip Montanaro Keywords: Skip Montanaro, index Hello, I'm looking for the author of the indexing program that can be found on the clarkson TeX-server in the directory /pub/tex/tex-programs/texindex. This is not the GNU-TeXindex program. The author's name is Skip Montanaro and we worked at least up to 1986 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Does somebody know him? Thanks in advance, Thomas Hoerkens - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Thomas Hoerkens | e-mail: hoerkens@math1.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de | | Marienstr. 15 | Inst : IGPM, RWTH Aachen, 5100 Aachen | | W-5180 Eschweiler | 0241/80-3951 | | Tel.: 02403/26682 | | - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Mar 92 20:58:00 +0100 From: J%org Knappen Subject: aFrican Computer fonts available Keywords: METAFONT, African fonts Fonts for African Languages now available I'm glad to announce the first release of the fc-fonts for african languages with latin writing. The METAFONT sources are available via anonymous ftp from rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de in the directory soft/tex/fonts/metafont/fc They will probably spread to other TeX archives soon. Read the file fc.rme for more information. Yours, J"org Knappen. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 19:53:40 -0500 From: Pierre Cottin Subject: Info about hyphen Keywords: LaTeX, hyphenation, French I am looking for a french version of the hyphenation system of latex. Where could I find it ?? Thanks. Pierre COTTIN pcottin@phy.ulaval.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 12:21:53 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: eplain 2.1 released Keywords: TeX, macros, eplain I have released Eplain version 2.1. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z} ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.1.tar.Z You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like `SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'. btxmac.tex no longer unconditionally defines \\ (to nothing useful), in case some previous macro package has already defined it. I inadvertently left arrow.tex out of the original 2.0. It's in 2.1, so you can hack commutative diagrams to your heart's content. I've included a section in the documentation on software patents and user interface copyrights. For those of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 15:20:00 -0800 From: Don Hosek Subject: CWEB for 386/486 systems running DOS Keywords: CWEB, PC, DOS, 386/486 A version of CWEB which runs on 386 and 486 PCs running DOS is now available from ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.web]cweb386.zip The package is VCPI and DPMI compliant (although only VCPI compliance has been tested) and includes executables and Zortech C++ source. Please note that since this is a binary archive, it cannot be retrieved via mailserv. - -dh Don Hosek | To retrieve files from ymir via the mailserver, dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu | send a message to mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography | with a line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME 714-621-1291 | where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans - ---------------------------+ "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt. 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By the summer of 1990, I had a preliminary version installed on a few machines here at Bell Labs, but I was not able to make it available externally. Since then, I have perfected the language implementation and the support software and I have written a User' s Manual, but I had trouble getting permission to make it available outside of AT&T. Now I can finally announce that the MetaPost language implementation is available free to any academic institution. It is still necessary to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Interested parties should contact me at the address below and give an address where I can have the necessary paperwork sent. Here are the main features of MetaPost: 1. The language is based on METAFONT and has almost the same syntax and semantics. This includes data types for curves, pictures, and linear transformations, as well as powerful macros and the ability to solve linear equations. 2. Pictures can contain typeset text using any font for which you have a .tfm file. MetaPost input can also contain text to be typeset with TeX (or troff). There are predefined macros for things like positioning labels and finding bounding boxes. 3. There are primitives and predefined macros for accessing PostScript features such as colors and shades of gray, dashed lines, and clipping, and for controlling the appearance of corners and ends of lines. While it is possible to use MetaPost to generate Type 3 PostScript fonts, the intended application is generating figures for technical documents. For this reason, MetaPost output consists of PostScript files that can be merged with TeX output using graphics inclusion features in dvi-to-PostScript translators. Since many dvi-to-PostScript translators download TeX fonts by including only those characters that are actually used by the .dvi file, extra provisions are necessary to allow such fonts in PostScript files generated via MetaPost. Version 5.47 of Tom Rokicki's dvips contains undocumented features for doing this, but a few bug-fixes are necessary to make them work properly. You can also use any dvi-to-PostScript program that understands encapsulated PostScript with standard comments like "%%DocumentFonts: cmr10". The actual MetaPost distribution contains web source for the translator and auxiliary programs, change files for use with the standard UNIX (r) TeX distribution (for use with web2c), auxiliary routines written in C, and a shell script that controls the preprocessing of TeX commands found in MetaPost input files. I will also include the bug fixes for dvips. John Hobby hobby@research.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. PO Box 636 Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974-0636 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 15:39:00 -0500 From: hobby@research.att.com Subject: MetaPost Keywords: METAFONT, MetaPost, graphics, PostScript My message announcing the availability of MetaPost should have explained how to get the manual. The manual is or will soon be available via netlib as CSTR 162. So you can either mail netlib@research.att.com send 162 from research/cstr or, if anonymous ftp is more convenient for you, get netlib/research/cstr/162.Z from research.att.com. I should also mention that version 5.481 of Rokicki's dvips has MetaPost support documented and working properly. John Hobby hobby@research.att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Ave. PO Box 636 Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974-0636 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Mar 92 09:08:43 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: GNU font utilities 0.4 available Keywords: METAFONT, fonts, utilities I have released the first public version (0.4) of the GNU font utilities. It is available by ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:pub/gnu/fontutils-0.4.tar.Z. You will need GCC and GNU Make to compile these programs. For the programs which do online graphics, you will need an X11 server and the X11R4 or R5 libraries. Send bugs or suggestions to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu. Here is a brief description of the programs included: * imagetofont reads an image in PBM or IMG format, and writes a bitmap font in GF format. * xbfe is a hand-editor for bitmap fonts which runs under X11. * charspace reads a bitmap font and tries to figure out reasonable side bearing values; it outputs a revised bitmap font and a font metric file. * limn reads a bitmap font and fits splines to the bitmaps; outputs a BZR file. * bzrto reads a BZR file and outputs it in Metafont or PostScript. * gsrenderfont uses Ghostscript to render a PostScript font at a particular point size and resolution into a PBM file, then uses imagetofont to make a bitmap font out of it. * fontconvert reads one or more bitmap font(s) and can rearrange the characters, filter them, omit them, split them into pieces, combine them, etc., etc. It can also output a TFM file. * imgrotate rotates or flips an IMG file. In addition, there are libraries to read and write the TFM, GF, and PK font formats used by TeX and its friends. If you are interested in helping to create some fonts for GNU (and get these programs to compile!), and especially if you have some typographic knowledge, please send me mail. Happy fonting, karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 14:29:43 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Update to STYles at FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, styles, SHSU Archive I'm truly sorry to those who have forwarded styles for me to add to our archives. Things have been sort of busy, so I've gotten a little behind. I will be sending out some notices within the next few days regarding updates which have been made, but are either undocumented or unannounced. This is my first set of announcements, so please bear with me. The first files of interest are two updates by David Carlisle to longtable.sty, and newarray.sty. longtable.sty defines the longtable environment, a multipage version of tabular. New in version 3: * The table does not have to start at the top of the page. * The documentation uses Mittelbach's doc.sty, so the documentation file longtable.tex is no longer needed. * Support for footnotes. * Many minor modifications. (One of the problems with using doc.sty is that it makes the author read his own code!) newarray.sty is an extension of Mittelbach's array.sty, which allows the user to easily specify new column types, and delimiters around the alignment. Also \extracolsep works with this style. Version 1 has a rather embarrassing bug in the treatment of @ and ! expressions. These were prematurely expanded inside an \edef, which may cause some rather spectacular errors. Please upgrade to Version 2 if you have a copy of Version 1. To retrieve either of these files, please include the commands: SENDME STY.LONGTABLE SENDME STY.NEWARRAY in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu (FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET). The second set of files were submitted by James Darrell McCauley . First is an update to endfloat.sty, which puts all LaTeX figures and tables on pages at the end of an article in individual sections (optionally labelled). In-text references can be made where the text of the table of figure should have been placed. This new version (1.2) provides internationalization in naming and verifies that the floats were used before a section is created for them. Include the command SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file. Second in Darrell's submissions are cea.sty and cea.bst. These are the unofficial LaTeX and BibTeX style files for Elsevier's ``Computers and Electronics in Agriculture'' submissions, respectively. To retrieve these, include in your mail message to FILESERV: SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT SENDME STY.CEA* The third file set of interest is Peter Ungar's cropmark.tex, a TeX macro to produce cropmarks in plain TeX. Include the command SENDME STY.CROPMARK_TEX in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file. Finally, Darrel Hankerson submitted a clean-up of pagefoots.sty. This style numbers footnotes beginning on ``1'' for each page. By default, it uses the \fnsymbol to "number" the footnotes (this is controlled by the first line of \newfoots); and it gets rid of the usual footnote rule, and inserts more vertical space for footnotes. Include the command SENDME STY.PAGEFOOTS in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file. - --George ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 10:21:28 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: version 1.1 of ``my'' font naming scheme available Keywords: METAFONT, fonts, naming scheme I have released version 1.1 of my font naming scheme for TeX fonts. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/fontname/fontname.texi I will also send it to you by email if you cannot ftp. It is about 28K in size. It is in Texinfo format, so you will need the TeX macros in the file texinfo.tex (available with most GNU programs) to be able to print it; that same directory also has a texinfo.tex. The rest of that directory contains the files showing the naming scheme applied to the Computer Modern, AMS, and Adobe fonts. This is an update of my article in TUGboat 11(4). The main changes are a much longer list of typeface families, a somewhat longer exposition of the problems with the naming scheme, and a proposal for another naming scheme for arbitrarily-long names (and a slight enhancement to TeX, approved by Professor Knuth, to allow this). I am happy to get additions, criticisms, or other comments. karl@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 16:00:40 -0900 From: "Arthur Ogawa" Subject: Re: version 1.1 of ``my'' font naming scheme available Keywords: METAFONT, fonts, naming scheme I appreciate the work you've done on the terse font names. One of the main benefits of your scheme and its adoption by Rockiki is to have a name that many can agree on, mainly by virtue of its being there right away in a public place. Now that you're considering longer names, I wonder why not simply use the name provided by the vendor. This is a naive suggestion, I'm sure, but makes much sense to me. In fact, given my perspective, I fail to see any need for generating a scheme for long font names. Am I missing something? By the way, Textures (Blue Sky Research) has for years (say since 1985?) had in place a scheme like the one you propose . It takes advantage of the resource orientation of the Macintosh to allow a TeX-visible font name of practically unrestricted length. This turns out to be quite useful wrt Adobe font names, because they, too, are filenames of a sort, and have no embedded spaces. >From a historical standpoint, MacTeX (ftl systems) also had such a scheme, but was limited by the Mac 31-character filename limitation. OzTeX could work the same way right now. MacTeX's scheme used no lookup file (not entirely true: there was a lookup table for specific fonts, like HelveticaNarrow-BoldOblique), but the effect of both is to have font names that are arguably standard and are certainly instantly recognizable. And, given VMS, there is nothing preventing users on such systems from enjoying these same benefits today. Under Unix, things are not so uniformly happy, but there one could very well use the name mapping technique; that's what it's there for. (Not to speak of DOS and VP/CMS.) My own practice is to use Adobe's name for my font. So, for instance, today I'm using StoneSans-SemiboldItalic (pstssi for short). To tell you the truth, going to a system (like DOS or Unix) with short names is markedly less convenient by comparison. I'm glad you got Don's blessing on your scheme, because this might mean seeing "verbose" (really, "true") font names used more widely. As things stand, I have to port my code to less functional, less convenient platforms. I hope that the ability to use longer font names leads to people turning to the only real authority for the font's name: its vendor. Arthur Ogawa Internet: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov Ph: 1/415/691-1126 TeX consultant AppleLink: ogawa FAX:1/415/962-1969 STEPS Project 1101 San Antonio Rd. #413, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA 94043-1002 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Apr 92 16:36:35 -0500 From: tat@senior.rad.tju.edu (talin tasciyan) Subject: acquiring TeX Keywords: TeX, installation, Unix We need TeX to be able to print some recently acquired ....tex documents. We ftp'ed README.TeX3.14 from your pub/unixtex directory. Although the instructions are clear, we have been unable to locate a TeX3.14 directory. Before we ftp'ed the entire unixtex directory, we wanted to doublecheck whether that's th e thing to do. Some of the files mentioned in the instructions do not exist under unixtex. We`d appreciate your comments. Thanks, talin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 10:23:57 +0000 From: goncal@ssws1.cnm.es (Goncal Badenes) Subject: Hyphenation patterns for Catalan ready for beta testing Keywords: hyphenation, Catalan Hyphenation patterns for Catalan are ready for beta-testing. Anyone interested in testing them, please contact me. Specify if you are using 7 bit or 8 bit fonts. Goncal Badenes Centre Nacional de Microelectronica goncal@ssws1.cnm.es Campus Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona goncal@cnmvax.uab.es E-08193 Bellaterra (Spain) Goncal.Badenes@lambada.oit.unc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 17:49:40 -0500 From: Jeffrey "C." Gealow Subject: BibTeX entry type appropriate for reprints Keywords: BibTeX Has anyone developed a BibTeX entry type which produces complete references to reprints. For example, I wish to cite: Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann, "Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument," U.S. Army Ordinance Department Report, 1946. Reprinted in Taub, ed., Collected Works of John von Neumann, vol. 5, Macmillan, New York, 1963, pp. 34-79. In my opinion, the inbook and incollection types are inadequate. Jeff Gealow jgealow@mtl.mit.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:42:00 -0600 From: Message from the Federation Starship Enterprise Subject: Question about DVI drivers Keywords: driver, HP LaserJet I have been looking for a dvi driver for an HP laser Jet Printer ... I was refered to some ftp sites .. but have not been able to make any of them work -I'm running vms op system. I also like if you can point me to the latest version of TEX/LATEX. Thanks *************************************************************************** $^$ "Hypothetically speaking?.. ^^^^^^ Jose Luis Paredes $^$ $^$ I never learned to speak ^^^^^^ Physicist by choice !! $^$ $^$ hypothetical!" ^^^^^^ University of Houston $^$ $^$ -Star Trek TNG ^^^^^^ Jose@crcc.uh.edu $^$ *************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 15:26:43 +0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme Subject: Output from bibliographic database services as (La)TeX input? Keywords: LaTeX, bibliographic database This university's libraries offer various database-searching services. The databases concerned may be on CD, or may be held on a computer somewhere and accessed via networks. Such services are used by medics, scientists, lawyers, etc. From them, the user gets a collection of bibliographic references (plus, perhaps, the corresponding abstracts), typically either on paper or on floppy disk. The user may then go on to cite these references in his/her own publications. I don't know much about these things, but the relevant buzzwords/phrases seem to include Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Cittaion Index, Index of Scientific and Technical Proceedings, Medline, Data-Star Medline format, Biosos, Dialog, BRS Colleague, Medlars (including Paperchase and Grateful Med), Chemical Abstracts, Dimdi, LS/2000, NUMS, NOTIS, OCLC, SCORPIO, STN, USMARC (created by MITINET distributed by EBSCONET). On the wordprocessing front, the typical user seems advised to buy a proprietary reference-handling package (e.g., EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager or Papyrus) to run on their PC or Mac, both to fulfill a BibTeX-like function (fill in the citations and format the reference-list in a particular style) and to help the user to search his/her personal database of interesting papers (e.g., to search for all papers that have "smoking" in the abstract). Does anyone have experience of using the output from these services as (La)TeX input, and have any tips that they can give? Does anyone have any interfacing software that they want to put into the public domain? For example: 1. Is there a neat way of getting output from such database-searches into BibTeX .bib file format? Has anyone produced any .bst files that have entries/fields that have a one-to-one correspondence with any of the database structures (as distinct from the standard BibTeX entry/field structure defined in Appendix B of the LaTeX manual). 2. Has anyone successfully used one of the proprietary reference-handling programs in conjunction with (La)TeX? [I suppose that this would involve (a) putting things recognised by the proprietary program in place of LaTeX's \cite (b) implementing a "style" for the proprietary program so that it can produce a reference-list with embedded (La)TeX instructions (c) applying the proprietary program to the .tex file before applying (La)TeX.] David Rhead JANET: d.rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% JANET: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp as: %%% machine directory filename %%% TEX.AC.UK [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% YY = last two digits of current year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 8] **************************************** 3-Jun-1992 17:29:02-GMT,28268;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from dir.nott.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA22206; Wed, 3 Jun 92 11:28:26 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <8874-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Wed, 3 Jun 1992 16:05:28 +0100 From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution:;@mips.nott.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #009 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world Date: Wed, 03 Jun 92 16:05:23 +0100 Message-Id: <14262.707583923@mips> Sender: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 3 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 009 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Regulations for theses Euler with LaTeX? PK files for PostScript fonts Lucida TFM/VF's for TeX Please HELP: "How to succesfully make TeX 3.14 on HP9000/720 ?" TR2LATEX 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord Structure/style of law publications Why does \font freeze \jobname? TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord Free TeX for PC exists ? PSTRICKS available on FILESERV/Niord TeXhax Digest V92 #007 Euler LaTeX style? PC version of tex Correction to PC version of tex PC version of tex tfm files for postscript fonts Re: Output from bibliographic databases services into (La)TeX ... E D I T O R ' S N O T E Apologies for the non-appearance of TeXhax during my absence in the USA on my honeymoon during the last three weeks. --Ed. ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 15:28:56 +0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme Subject: Regulations for theses Keywords: theses, regulations >From time to time, I've seen queries in TeXhax along the lines My university's regulations specify that theses should have double-spacing or one-and-a-half line-spacing. How can I get LaTeX to do this? to which Leslie Lamport would reply along the lines My advice in all such cases is to get your college to modify its obsolete requirements, which were developed for typewriters, not laserprinters. (For example, there was such an exchange dated 8th June 1988.) I think Leslie is right, and that universities should modify their regulations. But we rarely get to hear "what happened next?". Did the enquirer manage to get his/her institution to change their outdated regulations? What proportion of institutions have changed their regulations? What proportion have changes under consideration? In the UK, there has been some progress: * the British Standard for theses (BS 4821) now allows standard typesetting conventions for "typeset" theses. (It takes careful analysis of their wording to deduce this. But I've had indirect confirmation from the chair of the BS committee that this was their intention.) Associated with this is a recommendation that lines should contain between 60 and 70 characters (including spaces). * York cites BS 4821, and suggests that people contact the York computing service for advice about typography. * I seem to remember hearing that Cranfield requires single-spacing. * Oxford has a nice phrase about "output ... imitates letterpress, then the layout may be that of a well-designed book". * Nottingham regulations say that the combination of standard LateX line-spacing and line-length is OK for postgraduate theses. We still have problems with undergraduate reports (since each department makes its own regulations, so its more difficult to negotiate with them all), but I anticipate that we'll get "if typesetting, then adopt typesetting conventions" into most undergraduate regulations within the next year. * I have the impression that many places adopt a pragmatic attitude "if it looks alright, it is alright" rather than bothering what the letter of the regulations actually say. * On the other hand, I was in e-mail correspondence with someone at Edinburgh last year who had to make a formal appeal to get his "standard typesetting line-spacing" thesis accepted. (Otherwise, he'd have had to re-format with increased spacing, re-print and re-bind.) I understand that his appeal succeeded, but I don't know whether that means that other Edinburgh people can now be confident that if their thesis is done "like a well-designed book", it will get past the bureaucrats. Arguments I've found useful are: * Draw people's attention to experimental results on readability as shown, for example, on page 179 of Richard Rubinstein's "Digital Typography" ISBN 0-201-17633-5. The gist of it is that "standard typesetting conventions give typeset text that is nearly optimal for continuous reading". Hence one can say "Do you really want to make your thesis more difficult to read than it would be with standard typesetting conventions?". * Quote the Oxford regulations about "well-designed book". (Prestigeous place, Oxford!) * In the UK, quote the British Standard. * To people who say that they want the inter-line space for examiners to scribble comments, point out that "well-designed books" limit their line-length so, in practice on A4, examiners will get big side margins in which to scribble. * If someone is arguing that "double-spaced is easier to read", and they have a traditionally typeset book on their desk, ask "do you think that this book would have been easier to read if its line-spacing had been drastically increased?" * If someone is arguing that "double-spaced is easier to read", and you know that they edit a journal, note that "but you don't have such line-spacing when your journal is printed". * Quote books on typography at them. Would any readers like to share their experiences of what is a successful strategy for getting their regulations changed (or circumvented), or to report dismal failures? Are LaTeX style-files such as MITTHESIS.STY, UCTHESIS.STY and SUTHESIS.STY (which increase the line-spacing "as the typewriter-oriented regulations require") now heading for obsolescence? David Rhead JANET: d.rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 22:50:10 -0800 From: darrell@edu.ucsc.cse Subject: Euler with LaTeX? Keywords: LaTeX, fonts, Euler Does anyone have a style file to use the Euler fonts with straight LaTeX? I'm not anxious to learn AMSLaTeX, but I'd like to use the Euler fonts. Thanks, DL ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 13:06:53 -0500 From: karl@edu.umb.cs (Karl Berry) Subject: PK files for PostScript fonts Keywords: fonts, PostScript, utilities I've replaced ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/psfonts.tar with another set of PK files, generated by Rich Wales (thanks, Rich), at the sizes that NFSS wants. The fonts were made with the gsrenderfont program, part of the GNU font utilities, on prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:pub/gnu/fontutils-0.4.tar.Z. Enjoy. karl@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 15:03:35 -0500 From: karl@edu.umb.cs (Karl Berry) Subject: Lucida TFM/VF's for TeX Keywords: TFM, metrics, fonts, PostScript, Lucida I've put metric files for using the PostScript Lucida fonts with TeX on ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/lucida/lucida.tar.Z These files will be of no use to you unless you also have the Type 1 PFA/PFB/etc. files with the outlines. This includes the math fonts as a (more or less) drop-in replacement for Computer Modern. I've worked some on the magic math font parameters, but no doubt improvements are possible. I used virtual fonts to do this. I suggest using Tom Rokicki's dvips as your DVI-to-PostScript program. dvips is on labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*.tar.Z. Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz, who did much of the initial work, and Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes, who designed the typefaces. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 14:05:21 +0100 From: Laurent Demailly Subject: Please HELP: "How to succesfully make TeX 3.14 on HP9000/720 ?" Keywords: TeX, installation, HP 9000 Please Help !!! I've got TeX 3.14 on our HP 9000/720 and I can't get it working, Is there anybody that could help me ? I can make initex (big one), but the program does not work : for instance : >initex ; I launch 'initex' This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (INITEX) ; I get the prompt **plain.tex ; I type plain.tex ; I got nothing ! *\dump ; I try \dump ; I got nothing ! * ; I enter noting () (Please type a command or say `\end') ; I got this *x ; I try x ; I got nothing ! *\end ; I try \end ; I got nothing ! *^C ; Only way to exit (^C or ^D) ! Emergency stop. ; that's what I get... <*> plain.tex ; ... No pages of output. ; ... Transcript written on ?. ; ... 'make run-triptrap' don't work (same king of messages...) and small version of TeX crash on plain format with 'not enough memory' error (on my 64Mb RAM station !!!) I've tried some changes in "site.h" and "makefile" without success... Please HELP.... If someone can mail me (dl@hplyot.obspm.circe.fr) "site.h" and "makefile" and/or hints it would save me ... (I have succesfully build, if you're interested emacs18.57, ghostscript-2.4, ghostview-1.1, gnuplot-3.1, rayshade.4.0, saoimage, tcsh-6.01, xfig-2.1.3, transfig-2.1.4, xloadimage, xlock-2.2, ... [but not gcc2.0 but that's another tale...]) [My collegues here are wait to send their articles and publications...] Thank you in advance. Laurent Demailly. et un bonjour de Paris, France ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 14:26:21 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: TR2LATEX 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, troff, conversion, SHSU Archive In (comp.text.tex, 22 Apr 92 14:57:18 GMT), krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted the UUENCODEd tar archive of version 2.0 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. I caught it in the incoming box for ctt-Digest (to ctt-Digest subscribers: yes, the 1,300 or so lines have been cut out for tomorrow's edition) and went ahead and processed it. Below is the description file >From our site for this new version. - --George =========================================================================== TR2LATEX -------- The TR2LATEX package includes the files of the April 22, 1992, release of Christian Engel's modifications and enhancements of Kamal Al-Yahya's tr2latex, Troff-to-LaTeX conversion program. Significantly, the source code can now be compiled and run under VMS and DOS, as well as the original U*ix. See the README file for instructions on how to handle these new systems. Since all of the files in this package are required for for a complete distribution, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If for some reason, you should need a specific file, say, TR2LATEX.README, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX.README in your mail message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp access, there is a compressed U*ix tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a ZIP file of the package available in the directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) under the filenames TR2LATEX-2_0.TAR_Z, TR2LATEX-2_0.BCK, and TR2LATEX-2_0.ZIP, respectively. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TR2LATEX.DIFFS_TEX 8 DIFFS.TEX TR2LATEX.FLIP_H 2 FLIP.H TR2LATEX.FORBID_H 4 FORBID.H TR2LATEX.GREEK_H 2 GREEK.H TR2LATEX.HISTORY 7 HISTORY TR2LATEX.MACROS_H 6 MACROS.H TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_MMS 3 MAKEFILE.MMS TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_MSC 5 MAKEFILE.MSC TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_TC 5 MAKEFILE.TC TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_UNIX 6 MAKEFILE.UNIX TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_VMS 2 MAKEFILE.VMS TR2LATEX.MAKE_TR2LATEX_COM 2 MAKE_TR2LATEX.COM TR2LATEX.MATHS_H 3 MATHS.H TR2LATEX.PROTOS_H 5 PROTOS.H TR2LATEX.README 11 README TR2LATEX.SETUPS_H 7 SETUPS.H TR2LATEX.SIMIL_H 3 SIMIL.H TR2LATEX.SUBS_C 43 SUBS.C TR2LATEX.TESTFILE 6 TESTFILE TR2LATEX.TESTFILE_TEX-ORIG 8 TESTFILE.TEX-ORIG TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_C 15 TR2LATEX.C TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_HLP 3 TR2LATEX.HLP TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_MAN 9 TR2LATEX.MAN TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_MAN_TEX-ORIG 10 TR2LATEX_MAN.TEX-ORIG (or TR2LATEX.MAN.TEX-ORIG) TR2LATEX.TROFFMAN_STY 11 TROFFMAN.STY TR2LATEX.TROFFMS_STY 11 TROFFMS.STY TR2LATEX.TR_C 56 TR.C TR2LATEX.VAXCRTL_OPT 1 VAXCRTL.OPT TR2LATEX.VERSION_C 1 VERSION.C Approximate total blocks in full TROFFtoTeX package = 255 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 16:54:23 +0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme Subject: Structure/style of law publications Keywords: LaTeX, law, citations I'm helping someone LaTeX a law thesis, so have been looking at: * conventions for in-text citations of law cases * how to list such cases in a "table of cases" in a book's front matter. (A "table of cases" seems to be a type of index.) I have some tentative ideas about the structures involved and how to handle them, but would like to get comments from someone who knows about: * the conventions to be adopted when typesetting books about law * the possibilities with which any citation commands may have to cope. If you might be "the someone", could you let me know so that I can send you some stuff for comment? David Rhead JANET: d.rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme [P.S. I apologise for sending so many items to TeXhax within such a short period of time. The first 2 are re-submissions of items I sent to TeXhax@edu.washington.cs a few months back, which never appeared.] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 22:21:41 +0000 From: Chris Thompson Subject: Why does \font freeze \jobname? Keywords: TeX, \font, \jobname This is a somewhat updated version of the question I posted in UKTeX on 13 April: I thought I would try it out here as well. This couldn't conceivably have anything to do with measuring the turnround time of the new TeXhax setup, of course. Perish the thought. Barbara Beeton has asked me to write an item for TUGboat on the circumstances in which \jobname gets set to "texput". There are a lot of cases, many quite obscure. There is one particular one which I can't understand the rationale for at all: \font forces \jobname to "texput" if it is not already set. For example, if your response to the ** prompt (or command line input, if your favourite TeX implementation supports it) is \font\gerbil=cmr12\input wombat you will find that the DVI file is "texput.dvi", not "wombat.dvi", and so on. The code that is responsible for this is the following line at the start of |new_font| in section 1257 of tex.web: begin if job_name=0 then open_log_file; {avoid confusing \.{texput} with the font name} However, I can't understand the reasoning behind the comment here: how can confusion arise? Nor can I make anything obvious go wrong in a TeX in which this line is removed. Any ideas? I have received suggestions that the test is an historical relic that is no longer necessary. Note that there is no similar test or effect for \openin or \openout. The list of things that freeze \jobname and open the log file is, very briefly: explicit or implicit \input, prompting for more terminal input, expanding \jobname, executing \shipout, executing \font, normal or abnormal termination, and a really recondite case which you will have to wait for the TUGboat article for (I can't give everything away here, can I?). It *doesn't* include \write (to log), \message, or \errmessage. Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 16:27:34 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, troff, conversion In (comp.text.tex, 27 Apr 92 15:40:57 GMT), krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted: > This is the new version 2.2 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. It > is a compressed tar archive. Follow steps 1 through 6 to unpack it. Christian's obviously been busy! I caught this while going through the ctt-Digest receipts and it has been removed from that distribution (and so noted). The changes between version 2.2 and 2.1 (announced and installed last week) are listed as follows: # Revision 2.2 1992/04/27 15:13:51 Christian_Engel # - Fixed a bug in flip_twice I have brought in with revision 1.02 but didn't # notice earlier. It lead to wrong translation of nested flipping math # commands like ``a under hat''. # Bug reported by Richard Walker . # - Some modifications to calm down some strange warnings on strange # compilers reported from the net # - Fixed bug in getopts: now input of stdin by pure command line argument `-' # works properly. # - Fixed bug in main: multiple command line arguments work properly now. To retrieve the new version, include the command: SENDME TR2LATEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp users of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), a compressed U*ix tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file reside in the directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] as TR2LATEX-2_2.TAR_Z, *.BCK, and *.ZIP, respectively. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 18:05:00 +0800 From: 7913557@TWNCTU01.bitnet Subject: Free TeX for PC exists ? Keywords: TeX, PC, implementation Hi, netter: Could somebody tell me where to find a free (used not for commercial) TeX implementation on PC. I heard TeX is a very good program to produce a nice report in high quality. I will use it to write my report only. Whether a free TeX for PC exists or not, please reply the mail. very thanks. K.S. Chen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 92 15:17:54 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: PSTRICKS available on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX, PostScript, macros Timothy Van Zandt (another economist!) posted: > I have a new package of PostScript macros for LaTeX that I would like to > submit to the archives. Thanks! I've done the necessary things to make it available from FILESERV and Niord; below is the description file from FILESERV. - --George =========================================================================== PSTRICKS -------- The PSTRICKS package includes the files for version 0.9 (April 28, 1992) of Timothy Van Zandt's pstricks. pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX , LaTeX and AmS-LaTeX. Included are macros for color, graphics, rotation and overlays. It has several special features: * There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with color support. All lines and outlines can be solid, dotted or dashed. Lines and curves can have arrowheads, t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends. Closed regions can be filled with solid colors, lines or crosshatch. * With nested rotations, you can specify rotations with respect to the coordinate system before the previous rotations. For example, this lets you put a piece of text right side up even though it is inside a rotated structure. * There is "\dbox" which lets you use things analogous to \hfill and \hrulefill, but in any direction. * There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for making pictures. * There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables. * There are rotation macros that create a box with the appropriate dimensions, for any angle of rotation. To retrieve the files via e-mail, include the command: SENDME PSTRICKS in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should only need one of these files, say PSTRICKS.PST-READ_ME, include the command: SENDME PSTRICKS.PST-READ_ME in your message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), there is a compressed U*ix tar file, a compressed VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file (PSTRICKS-V0_9.TAR_Z, *.BCK_Z, and *.ZIP) available in the directory [.PSTRICKS] Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSTRICKS.PST-CODE_TEX 4 PST-CODE.TEX PSTRICKS.PST-READ_ME 14 PST-READ.ME PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_1OF7 79 PST-USER.PS (in 7 parts) PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_2OF7 79 PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_3OF7 79 PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_4OF7 79 PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_5OF7 79 PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_6OF7 79 PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_7OF7 51 PSTRICKS.PST-USER_TEX_1OF2 79 PST-USER.TEX (in 2 parts) PSTRICKS.PST-USER_TEX_2OF2 52 PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_CON 10 PSTRICKS.CON PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_1OF4 79 PSTRICKS.DOC (in 4 parts) PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_2OF4 80 PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_3OF4 80 PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_4OF4 24 PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_PRO 13 PSTRICKS.PRO PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_STY 1 PSTRICKS.STY PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_TEX_1OF2 80 PSTRICKS.TEX (in 2 parts) PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_TEX_2OF2 71 PSTRICKS.TVZ-HAX_STY 33 TVZ-HAX.STY Approximate total blocks in full PSTRICKS package = 1,145 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 May 92 20:39:45 -0500 From: abw@edu.bu.bucrsb Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #007 Not a submission, but just a cheery "welcome back" to TeXhax in its new home in Blighty. May you prosper! | Al B. Wesolowsky abw@bucrsb.bu.edu or arc9arn@buacca.bu.edu | | Managing Editor, Journal of Field Archaeology, Boston University | | 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 (617) 353-2357 | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 92 11:45:13 -0800 From: Darrell Long Subject: Euler LaTeX style? Does anyone have an Euler LaTeX style? I'd like to use the fonts, but I'm not ready to switch to AMSLaTeX. Thanks, DL ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 92 13:59:54 -0500 From: bdbryan@edu.clemson.eng (Ben Bryant) Subject: PC version of tex Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above? I am a new-comer to the world of tex, and I would also like to get some good documentation on the use of tex for thesis/book writing. Can anyone recommend any good books? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 92 14:07:53 -0500 From: bdbryan@edu.clemson.eng (Ben Bryant) Subject: Correction to PC version of tex Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above? I am a new-comer to the world of tex, and I would also like to get some good documentation on the use of tex for thesis/book writing. Can anyone recommend any good books? Thanks in advance. I need to correct the above address to be Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 92 16:17:00 -0500 From: "Dr. Jim Walker @CRL" Subject: tfm files for postscript fonts Could somebody tell me how (where) I can obtain the postscript tfm files, so that I can use postscript fonts with dvips on my VaxStation. Thanks, Jim Walker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 May 92 21:15:40 -0100 From: Thomas-Martin Kruel Subject: Re: Output from bibliographic databases services into (La)TeX ... David Rhead asks about incorporating the output of bibliographic database searches into (La)TeX via BibTeX. What I know about is the program R2BIB from Rusty Wright, which converts the REFER format used in UNIX environments into BibTeX format. The REFER format is similar to most of the common formats of commercial citation manager, e.g. SciMate. So it should be no greater problem to rewrite the program to handle the desired input format. Besides that, I have written two converters from CAS-Online and PHYS-Online into REFER format. These in conjunction with R2BIB could be used to incorporate at CAS-Online and PHYS-Online searches into your LaTeX document. I do it this way for my thesis. If one doesn't mind to rewrite the C sources one can easily write a direct converter from CAS or PHYS into BibTeX. If there is a general interest, I can put the stuff in public domain. Hope this helps a bit, Thomas. - -- Thomas-Martin Kruel Institut f. Physikalische Chemie / Universitaet Wuerzburg Marcusstr. 9-11, D-8700 Wuerzburg, Tel. +49 931 31579 ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% JANET: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp as: %%% machine directory filename %%% TEX.AC.UK [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% YY = last two digits of current year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 9] **************************************** 6-Jun-1992 2:04:02-GMT,1623;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from dir.nott.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA12908; Fri, 5 Jun 92 20:03:57 MDT Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <24533-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Fri, 5 Jun 1992 18:08:24 +0100 To: TeXhax Distribution:;@mips.nott.ac.uk From: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax storm Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 18:08:26 +0100 Message-Id: <26537.707764106@mips> Sender: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk Dear TeXhax reader, I'm aware of a problem where copies of TeXhax V92 #009 have been multiplying on the network and delivered many times to several subscribers. What I believe to have happened is that a host in Germany has mistakenly sent a non-delivery report back to the list, rather than to me, and I'm trying to contact the postmaster there for help in finding out why that has happened. The flow of messages from my mail relay has stopped, as I've suspended our mailing-list channel and no more erroneous messages are coming in for retransmission out to the list. However, there may still be some messages in transit on the net, at various relays. I can only offer my sincere apologies for the situation, which was outside my control. If the postmasters responsible for germany.eu.net, mail.germany.eu.net, fhg.de or fhg1.fhg.de read this, or can be drawn to their attention, I'd be grateful if they could contact me, as I'm unable to get mail through to them, and I'd like to make sure this problem does not recur. Once again, my apologies for the inconvenience caused. --David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) 11-Jun-1992 18:35:03-GMT,41979;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from dir.nott.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA20448; Thu, 11 Jun 92 12:34:52 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <1750-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Thu, 11 Jun 1992 18:13:07 +0100 From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution:;@mips.nott.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #010 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 18:13:11 +0100 Message-Id: <7378.708282791@mips> Sender: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Thursday, 11 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 010 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: TeXhax storm EuroTeX 92, Prague Glenn L. Swonk's LaTeX Tree Drawer CALL FOR PAPERS Scientific Word Using DVIOUT on VMS, hints, horror stories, etc. LaTeX hypenation problems Pounds Signs in SliTeX SEMINAR files on FILESERV/Niord modes.mf 0.10 available sauter parameter files version 1.3 available web2c 5.851c available ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 17:43:11 +0000 From: The Moderator Subject: TeXhax storm As many of you will be aware, a "storm" of TeXhax Digest deliveries occurred with V92 #009 last week, in which several recipients received large numbers of repeated copies of that issue of the digest, as well as numbers of non-delivery reports. What seemed to happen was that non-delivery reports were redirected back to the list itself for retransmission. Once I was aware of the problem, I took various steps to quench the flow of messages, which helped, though the storm rumbled on in parts of the net as various mailers continued to attempt delivery. Although it seemed that one or two sites in Germany were the source of the problem, this turned out not to be the case, and the cause seems to have been a bug in a new version of the mailer run at the JANET-X.400 gateway in London, affecting RFC822 messages translated to X.400 messages for onward relay. This particularly affected domains including DE (Germany), SE (Sweden), FR (France) and CA (Canada), among others. You will be pleased to know that the bug in question has now been fixed. In addition, I have changed addresses at this end which should prevent a re-occurrence of the incident. I do offer my sincere apologies for the undoubted inconvenience which many subscribers suffered (I know what it was like, as my mailbox was deluged with over 20Mb of non-delivery reports which took 2 days to process), and trust it will not happen again. Here goes, then, with V92 #010... fingers crossed! - --David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 May 92 11:32:37 +0700 From: Jiri Vesely Subject: EuroTeX 92, Prague Keywords: Conference, EuroTeX 92, Prague Dear friends, ********************* this is a message I tried to send you at the end of March, but I had some difficulties with the change of my address so I was not allowed to use the list. I repeat it now: the "unofficial character" consists of the fact we shall appreciate even those who will come to Prague not only for TeX meeting. ******************* this is a less official information about the preparations of EuroTeX 92 in Prague. As you know, we had some difficulties with the accommodation. At present we have a chance to start on Monday, September 14. Still we hope to extend the time (for a limited number of visitors) to include also Sunday, 13, but until now we were not successful (another big conference will be closed on the same day). We understand that for some participants the chance to be able to come a bit earlier should be important, but we are not able to assist to those planning any extension which would not be within the time September 13 -- 20. The total capacity of the conference will be 300 participants, including accompanying persons. We prefer to have active participants but, on the other hand, we suppose that people would like to take their relatives or friends with. Generally it should be definitely cheaper then a trip (on a comparable level) to Prague on a comparable level with a travel agency. We work on the programme and our aim is to have very good *invited* lectures (6 -- 8) for "morning sessions". We understand that to prepare such a lecture (and the survey paper for the proceedings) on a good level needs some effort, time and other things and so we shall cover for these lecturers all living expanses, possibly also including one accompanying person (this, of course, depends heavily on the size of the conference). The same applies to those who would prepare a tutorials (they would be organized *at the end* of the conference provided there will be enough people to be interested in). Until now we do not have too many candidates for invited lectures. Any suggestion for the programme committee sent to Jiri Zlatuska . Approx. 15 people from all over Europe already showed an interest in the conference. It will be very important for us to know a good estimate of the number of participants relatively early (end of May) and hence we shall have to offer some discount for those who will register till June, 30. Then we shall have to make definite reservation (say, for 200 people) and to extend it would be probably extremely difficult. We already have some potential participants from former "East Europe". If some western local TUG group should find a way to support such people, for example by creating a special scholarship or by any other way, it should play a big role in spreading TeX to other countries. We would like to have in Prague representatives of some leading commercial TeXs programmes. Could you help in a way or has somebody a good idea how to attack the problem? I visited only several meetings devoted entirely to TeX. I enjoyed very much the Dedham meeting, but: at the meeting people had only a limited chance for the exchange/copying the PD-software and, more generally, to use computers. I saw how it was organized in Vien and I enjoyed it. Was it a good standard or even more is expected? Very popular pieces of sw we could offer (just for covering copying expenses) directly on disks which we could prepare beforehand. This was applied in Dedham for AmSTeX 2.1 to give an explicit example. Suggestions in this direction would be appreciated. We have not enough funds to distribute materials about the conference in a printed form to all those possibly interested in TeX. We have not problems to print it but to spread it. Hence we shall appreciate any afford to include the information into journals/materials of the local TUG groups. I suppose that many of you have some lists of participants of previous EuroTeX meetings or other conferences containing *e-mail addresses*. I should be much obliged to you for sending me such lists. I hope to see all of you in September in Prague Truly yours Jiri (George) Vesely ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 May 92 13:16:11 +0700 From: hollander@de.dbp.mpg.mpib-martinsried (HORSTMAR HOLLANDER) Subject: Glenn L. Swonk's LaTeX Tree Drawer Keywords: LaTeX, trees, MS-DOS Glenn L. Swonk published an article in TUGboat 12, 286-289 (1991) on a tool (LTD) for drawing Trees with LaTeX. He announced that he would submit the DOS executable to an archive server. Does anybody know where it is available? +-------------------------------------------------------+ | | Dr. Horstmar Hollander | | Voice: (089) 8578-3700 | Max-Planck-Institute | | Fax: (089) 8578-3939 | for Psychiatry | | | D-8033 Martinsried, F.R.G.| |-------------------------------------------------------| | EAN: hollander@mpib-martinsried.mpg.dbp.de | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 May 92 15:05:00 +0700 From: U01105@FRCCSC21.bitnet Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Keywords: Conference, Astronomy, Hagenau Astronomy from Large Databases II (Haguenau - 14-16 September 1992) CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 31 May 1992) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsors Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS - France) Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES - France) European Southern Observatory (ESO) European Space Agency (ESA) International Association for Pattern Recognitation (IAPR) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA - USA) Universite Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I (France) Ville de Haguenau (France) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is organising from Sept. 14 to 16, 1992, a follow-up event to the 1987 conference on "Astronomy from Large Databases" (Eds. F. Murtagh & A. Heck, ESO Conference & Workshop Proceedings 28). The meeting will take place in Haguenau, an imperial city about 30km North of Strasbourg. Haguenau is easily reachable by road and train. The closest international airport is Strasbourg-Entzheim, where all rental car companies are represented. The following sections outline the scientific programme and give the composition of the Scientific Organising Committee as well as a preliminary list of invited talks. If you are interested in attending this conference, please return the enclosed registration form together with your registration fee (FF 500.- if paid before 31 May 1992, FF 700.- if paid thereafter). Because September is still the high tourist season in Alsace, we urge you to return AS SOON AS POSSIBLE the enclosed accommodation form together with a deposit of FF 400.- in order to cover the first night's accommodation and the reservation fee (FF 100.-). If at all possible, have cheques drawn in French Francs on a French bank, or use Eurocheques. Failing this, please add 20% in order to cover the bank costs and exchange charges. All amounts should be made payable to "Monsieur l'Agent Comptable, Universite de Strasbourg I, Compte de l'Observatoire". If you wish to present a communication at the conference, please indicate its title on the registration form AND send BEFORE 31 May 1992 an abstract (maximum one A4-page) for inclusion in an abstracts book that will be made available at the conference. Only proposals from persons who will actually register for the conference will be considered. We expect that most of the contributions will have to be presented as posters. However, all communications accepted from persons actually attending the conference as well as the invited papers, will be reproduced in the proceedings published by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and distributed free of charge to the attendees. Selected contributors will be expected to come to the meeting with a camera-ready copy (and, if possible, a machine-readable file) of their paper. Format instructions will be sent in a subsequent mailing together with practical details on the conference itself. There will be also possibilities to run demonstrations of packages and databases. Interested parties should, as far as possible, bring their own equipment. Alternatively local possibilities could be checked with the organisers (see addresses and telecommunication plugs below). We would also appreciate if you could advertise this meeting as widely as possible in your institution and through modern means like your electronic mailing list (you can get the present documents e-mailed to you). Please also feel free to send us your comments. Looking forward to seeing you in Haguenau and having together a fruitful and enjoyable meeting, we remain, Yours sincerely, The Organisers. Further information on the scientific programme can be obtained from: Dr. Andre HECK Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 Strasbourg France Telephone: +33-88.35.82.22 (direct) +33-88.35.82.16 (Secr.: Ms. Ch. Bruneau) Telefax: +33-88.49.12.55 (direct) +33-88.25.01.60 (Observatory) Telex: 890506 starobs f Electronic mail: heck@frccsc21 (bitnet) heck@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr (internet) Dr. Fionn MURTAGH ST-ECF Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 D-W-8046 Garching Germany Telephone: +49-89-32006298 Telefax: +49-89-32006480 Electronic mail: fmurtagh@eso.org murtagh@scivax.stsci.edu For administrative matters and accomodation, please contact: Ms. Chantal BRUNEAU Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 Strasbourg France Telephone: +33-88.35.82.16 Telefax: +33-88.25.01.60 Telex: 890506 starobs f Electronic mail: bruneau@frccsc21 (bitnet) bruneau@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr (internet) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics of the Conference - - Presentation of astrophysical results from diverse databases and archives. - - Application of artificial intelligence to quality control and maintenance of data in databases and archives. - - Intelligent information retrieval. - - Scientific visualization and interactive analysis systems. - - Integration of bibliographic, textual and numeric data collections; integration with directory services; tools such as proposal and publication aids, thesauri and acronym lists. - - Methods for interpreting data: statistics, knowledge-based systems, and image processing; browsing and quick-look tools; summarization and report generation capabilities. - - The future: what environments can best serve astronomical research? The emphasis is on the astronomy coming out of the available and future databases and archives, as well as on the range of related methodologies. The Proceedings will be published by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching/Munich. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scientific Organising Committee M.F. A'Hearn (College Park, Maryland) P. Benvenuti (ST-ECF, Garching) R. Bonnet (ESA, Paris) M. Creze (Strasbourg Observatory) (Chairman) G. Debouzy (CNES, Paris) R. Giacconi (STScI, Baltimore) P. Giommi (ESRIN, Frascati) B. Hauck (Institut d'Astronomie, Lausanne) A. Heck (Strasbourg Observatory) (Proceedings Editor) G. Helou (IPAC, Pasadena) F. Murtagh (ST-ECF, Garching) (Proceedings Editor) S. Nishimura (NAOJ, Tokyo) G. Riegler (NASA, Washington) M. Strickman (NRL, Washington) P.A. Vanden Bout (NRAO, Charlottesville) H. van der Laan (ESO, Garching) H.-U. Zimmermann (MPE, Garching) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Talks H.-M. Adorf (ST-ECF, Garching): "How to be choosy and successful at the same time: statistical classification of large data sets". M. Albrecht (ESO, Garching) and D. Egret (CDS, Strasbourg): "From archives to information systems in astronomy". R. Albrecht (ST-ECF, Garching): "Research-oriented interfaces to large databases". N.J. Belkin (Rutgers, New Jersey): "Intelligent information retrieval: understanding and supporting human information seeking". P. Benvenuti (ST-ECF, Garching): "Evolution in the scientific uses of archives for space missions". E. Cheng (GSFC, Greenbelt): " Results from the COBE project". M. Creze (Strasbourg Observatory): "Databases: a cross-fertilization gateway between old and new astronomy". A. Heck (Strasbourg Observatory): "The Star*s Family and complementary services from databases". M.D. Johnston (STScI, Baltimore): "StarView: the astronomer's interface to the Hubble Space Telescope archive". M.J. Kurtz (CfA, Cambridge): "Second-order knowledge: information retrieval in the terabyte age". G. Langston (NROA, Charlottesville): "Results of radio source surveys". B.F. Madore and G. Helou (IPAC, Pasadena): "Scientific databases and astronomical research: examples and concerns". G. Miller (STScI, Baltimore): "The intelligent data analysis assistant". F. Murtagh (ST-ECF, Garching): "Pattern recognition methods for large astronomical data collections". P.B. Shames (Caltech, Pasadena): "Scientific visualization and interactive analysis systems". B.G. Taylor (ESTEC, Noordwijk): "Space astronomy from databases: the European context". J. Truemper (MPE, Garching): "Scientific results from ROSAT". C. Turon et al. (Observatoire de Paris, Meudon): "The performance of the Hipparcos Input Catalogue as compared with the first results of the Hipparcos mission". D. Wells (NROA, Charlottesville): "Open challenges". M. Wenger (Strasbourg Observatory): "Threats to your Databases ..." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Registration Form Name: Address: Country: Telephone: Telefax: Telex: E-mail: - - will attend the meeting: YES/NO - - would like to make a presentation: YES/NO Title: Need of: overhead projector (*) slide projector (*) video projector (*) (**) An abstract (maximum one A4-page) should be sent BEFORE 31 May 1992 with the registration form. Only proposals from persons actually registering for the conference will be considered. Selected contributors will be expected to come to the meeting and with a camera-ready copy (and, if possible, a machine-readable file) of their paper (format instructions will be sent later on). Registration fees should be prepaid (FF 500.- if paid before 31 May 1992, FF 700.- if paid thereafter). If at all possible, have cheques drawn in French Francs on a French bank, or use Eurocheques. Failing this, please add 20% in order to cover the bank costs and exchange charges. All amounts should be made payable to "Monsieur l'Agent Comptable, Universite de Strasbourg I, Compte de l'Observatoire". Cancellations will give right to a reimbursement (except for FF 100.- for covering the administrative expenses), if received before 31 July 1992. Date: Signature (on the paper copy returned with the prepayment): This form should be returned as soon as possible to: Dr. Andre HECK Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 Strasbourg France. Telephone: +33-88.35.82.22 (direct) +35-88.35.82.16 (Secr.: Ms. Ch. Bruneau) Telex: 890506 starobs f Telefax: +33-88.49.12.55 (direct) +33-88.25.01.60 (Observatory) Electronic mail: heck@frccsc21 (bitnet) heck@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr (internet) (*) circle as appropriate (**) only VHS PAL/SECAM standards available - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accommodation Form Name: Address: Country: Telephone: Telefax: Telex: Accompanying persons: Hotel reservation: I wish to reserve a single / double room (*) for the following period: Date of arrival: Date of departure: Number of nights: Transportation used on arrival in Strasbourg / Haguenau (*): Car Train Plane A deposit of FF 400.- per room should be prepaid in order to cover the first night's accommodation and the reservation fees (FF 100.-). If at all possible, have cheques drawn in French Francs on a French bank, or use Eurocheques. Failing this, please add 20% in order to cover the bank costs and exchange charges. All amounts should be made payable to "Monsieur l'Agent Comptable, Universite de Strasbourg I, Compte de l'Observatoire". Please note that a reservation will be made only after receipt of the deposit and registration fee to the conference. No reservation will be guaranteed after 30 June 1992. Cancellations will give right to a reimbursement (except for the reservation fees of FF 100.-), if received before 30 June 1992. Date: Signature (on the paper copy returned with the deposit): This form should be returned as soon as possible to: Ms. Chantal BRUNEAU Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 Strasbourg France Telephone: +33-88.35.82.16 Telex: 890506 starobs f Telefax: +33-88.25.01.60 Electronic mail: bruneau@frccsc21 (bitnet) bruneau@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr (internet) (*) delete as appropriate (1992/05) ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 92 15:37:04 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Scientific Word Keywords: TeX, WYSIWYG, Scientific Word I feel like making trouble, so lets examine the document I received as a member of the UK TeX Users Group about Scientific Word. On the face of it, a good idea, wysiwyg entry of TeXery. But really, whats the world coming to? if you *look* at this description, and read it, you may feel like me: a) the document is printed badly in a mangy copy of CMR. If you going to use it, why not at least print it properly? Why use the \TeX\ logo if you cannot get it right? Why offer a typesetting system when you don't know the difference between em-rules, en-rules and hyphens? b) much more importantly, look at the small print --- the thing does not cater for *tables*: they will be covered in a future release! what sort of scientific document preparation front end is this, that cannot deal with the best reason (after maths) for wanting wysiwyg input? It's the dishonesty of it that bothers me --- why don't they wait until they have tables working before they release it and ask me for \pounds500? It is so typical of software companies these days to release unfinished test products and charge full price for them while expecting the user to chop and change for a year or two (no doubt paying the odd $50 for updates --- yes, you know, the price of a weekly food shopping expedition for me) installing new versions all the time. Getting TeX involved in all this gives a noble piece of software a bad name. yours in choler Sebastian Rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 15:09:00 -0500 From: "L. Atkinson, HSCS, Virginia Commonwealth University" Subject: Using DVIOUT on VMS, hints, horror stories, etc. Keywords: DVI, preview, Textronix, DVIOUT Being as we have a dearth? of tektronics type display devices, we'd like to encourage our users to use DVIOUT for preview of their documents. BUT... we are getting errors trying to use the DVIOUT as supplied off of the DECUS distribution. Any hints, suggestions, sources, would be greatly appreciated. We are current- ly at VMS 5.4-1A, with TeX version 3.0 or there-abouts. Any replies, etc. would be helpfull at my own address. Thanks, Luther Atkinson@gems.vcu.edu or Atkinson@vcuvax ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 92 10:25:13 +0000 From: Rachelle Edmond Subject: LaTeX hypenation problems Keywords: LaTeX, hyphenation Dear TeXhaxers: We have TeX/LaTeX running on several different platforms at our site. A particular problem arose when a LaTeX file was processed on an Ultrix machine, running TeX v3.14: the hyphenation mechanism broke words in parculiar places: (i.e.: ... application of geostatistical method- ==> s, we invite you to...). This is not the case on any of the other machines I tested running TeX v3.1 or v3.14 (Suns, SGIs & DECs). Setting \textwidth was used as a work-around. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen? Please respond directly to: rds@rocky.arc.nasa.gov Thanks in advance Rachelle Edmond NASA/Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 92 18:44:43 +0000 From: Steve Hardcastle-Kille Subject: Pounds Signs in SliTeX Keywords: SliTeX, pounds sign I cannot get pounds signs to appear in SliTeX. Can anyone help me? Need this very urgently. Steve ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 92 17:41:42 -0600 From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade" Subject: SEMINAR files on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, macros, slides, SEMINAR A few days ago, Timothy Van Zandt announced his SEMINAR package for making slides in LaTeX on comp.text.tex. I have retrieved the files and made them available on FILESERV and Niord. FILESERV's description file follows. Regards, George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SEMINAR ------- The SEMINAR package includes Timothy Van Zandt's version 0.92 of seminar.sty and related files to use in making slides. seminar.sty is a LaTeX document style for typesetting slides or transparencies, and accompanying notes. It has many advantages over SliTeX. Here are some of the style's special features: * You can use any fonts that work with LaTeX, including PostScript fonts and AmSFonts. * Slides can be landscape and portrait within the same file. * Color is supported through PostScript. * It is a LaTeX style, rather than another format. * It is compatible with AmS-LaTeX. * The slides can have a frame and a colored background. * The magnification can be changed with a single command. * Overlays can be produced from a single slide environment. * Accompanying notes, such as the text of a presentation, can be put outside the slide environments. The slides, notes or both together can then be typeset in a variety of formats. Some of these features require a PostScript output device. To retrieve the complete package of 33 distribution files, please include the command: SENDME SEMINAR in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should only require a specific file from this package, say, SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_DOC, include the command: SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_DOC in your mail message to FILESERV. All DVI documentation files associated with this package have been UUENCODEd and split for mail distribution. For anonymous ftp access, the files reside in the [.SEMINAR] directory tree of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). The individual files are in the [.DOC], [.INPUTS], and [.SRC] subdirectories of [.SEMINAR]. Alternately, a compressed U*ix tar file, a compressed VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file of the tree and files are in SEMINAR-V0_92.TAR_Z, *.BCK_Z, and *.ZIP, respectively. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: ftp Directory: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEMINAR.2UP_STY 45 2UP.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.2UP_TEX 45 2UP.TEX [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.NPSFONT_STY 15 NPSFONT.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.PORTRAIT_STY 10 PORTRAIT.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEM-A4_STY 3 SEM-A4.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEM-CODE_TEX 3 SEM-CODE.TEX [.SEMINAR.SRC] SEMINAR.SEM-CODE_UUE_1OF4 79 SEM-CODE.UUE [.SEMINAR.DOC]*.DVI SEMINAR.SEM-CODE_UUE_2OF4 79 SEM-CODE.UUE SEMINAR.SEM-CODE_UUE_3OF4 79 SEM-CODE.UUE SEMINAR.SEM-CODE_UUE_4OF4 55 SEM-CODE.UUE SEMINAR.SEM-READ_ME 14 SEM-READ.ME [.SEMINAR] SEMINAR.SEM-USER_TEX_1OF2 79 SEM-USER.TEX [.SEMINAR.SRC] SEMINAR.SEM-USER_TEX_2OF2 41 SEM-USER.TEX SEMINAR.SEM-USER_UUE_1OF4 79 SEM-USER.UUE [.SEMINAR.DOC]*.DVI SEMINAR.SEM-USER_UUE_2OF4 79 SEM-USER.UUE SEMINAR.SEM-USER_UUE_3OF4 79 SEM-USER.UUE SEMINAR.SEM-USER_UUE_4OF4 13 SEM-USER.UUE SEMINAR.SEMCOLOR_STY 9 SEMCOLOR.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEMHELV_STY 9 SEMHELV.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEMINAR_BUG 2 SEMINAR.BUG [.SEMINAR] SEMINAR-V0_92.BUG SEMINAR.SEMINAR_DOC_1OF2 79 SEMINAR.DOC [.SEMINAR.SRC] SEMINAR.SEMINAR_DOC_2OF2 60 SEMINAR.DOC SEMINAR.SEMINAR_STY 64 SEMINAR.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEMLCMSS_STY 10 SEMLCMSS.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEMROT_STY 3 SEMROT.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.SEMSAMPL_TEX 22 SEMSAMPL.TEX [.SEMINAR.DOC] SEMINAR.SLIDESEC_STY 14 SLIDESEC.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.TVZ-HAX_STY 35 TVZ-HAX.STY [.SEMINAR.SRC] SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_DOC 60 XCOMMENT.DOC [.SEMINAR.SRC] SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_STY 16 XCOMMENT.STY [.SEMINAR.INPUTS] SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_TEX 11 XCOMMENT.TEX [.SEMINAR.SRC] SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_UUE_1OF2 79 XCOMMENT.UUE [.SEMINAR.DOC]*.DVI SEMINAR.XCOMMENT_UUE_2OF2 31 XCOMMENT.UUE Approximate total blocks in full SEMINAR package = 1,301 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 13:59:45 -0500 From: karl Subject: modes.mf 0.10 available Keywords: METAFONT, mode_def, modes.mf I have released version 0.10 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf You can also get it (soon) by email from George Greenwade's (thanks, George!) file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of `sendme modes'. It is about 46K. This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common definitions for write-white printers and `special' information. This version has only minor fixes: * `=' is used in special output instead of ` := ', to conserve space * new modes for the CG 9600 and Varityper 4300 If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the existing ones, please send them to me. karl@cs.umb.edu mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga mode_def AtariNineFive = % Atari 95dpi previewer mode_def AtariNineSix = % Atari 96x96 previewer mode_def AtariSLMEightZeroFour = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer mode_def AtariSMOneTwoFour = % Atari ST SM 124 screen mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5 mode_def ApsSixHi = % Autologic APS-Micro6 mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi mode_def boise = % HP 2680A mode_def CanonCX = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10 mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310 mode_def CItohEightFiveOneZero = % CItoh 8510A mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600 mode_def CompugraphicNineSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 9600 mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroMed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroLo = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family mode_def GThreefax = % 200 x 100dpi G3fax mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500 mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1) mode_def IBMD = % IBM 38xx (\#2) mode_def IBMFourZeroTwoNine = % IBM 4029-30, 4250 mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216 mode_def IBMProPrinter = % IBM ProPrinter mode_def IBMSixOneFiveFour = % IBM 6154 display mode_def IBMSixSixSevenZero = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa) mode_def IBMThreeOneSevenNine = % IBM 3179 screen mode_def IBMThreeOneNineThree = % IBM 3193 screen mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812 mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820 mode_def IBMEGA = % IBM EGA monitor mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75 mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01 mode_def LPSFourZero = % DEC LPS40 mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1 mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi mode_def NEC = % NEC mode_def NEChi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi mode_def Newgen = % Newgen 400dpi mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750-PS mode_def okidata = % Okidata mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine) mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03 mode_def SparcPrinterBlack = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/black mode_def SparcPrinterWhite = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/white mode_def StarNLOneZero = % Star NL-10 mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi mode_def VarityperFiveZeroSixZeroW = % Varitype 5060W mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroLo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroHi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi mode_def VarityperFourTwoZeroZero = % Varityper 4200 B-P mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600 mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor mode_def XeroxEightSevenNineZero = % Xerox 8790 or 4045 mode_def XeroxFourZeroFiveZero = % Xerox 4050 mode_def XeroxNineSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 9700 mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 14:23:08 -0500 From: karl@edu.umb.cs (Karl Berry) Subject: sauter parameter files version 1.3 available Keywords: METAFONT, fonts, Computer Modern, Sauter I've updated my packaging for Unix of John Sauter's Metafont files to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size. You can get version 1.3 by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/sauter.tar.Z. This release adds parameter files for the Glonti/Samarin Cyrillic, contributed by Glenn Thorbe and Wayne Sullivan (wsulivan@irlearn.ucd.ie). For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the same TFM files as Knuth's sources. So it is ok to call the output from these `cm...'. The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for dvips which take advantage of these fonts. You can get LaTeX from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]:TEX/TEX3/latex, and dvips from labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*. Let me know if you have questions or suggestions. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 May 92 20:42:56 -0500 From: karl Subject: web2c 5.851c available Keywords: TeX, WEB, web2c, Unix I have released a new version of web2c, the port of the basic TeX project web programs (TeX, Metafont, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix. You can get it by ftp from (at least): (Boston) ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{web,web2c}.tar.Z (California) ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/{web,web2c}.tar.Z. Send bug reports to me. There are no new features in this release, just bug fixes. I've updated my modified xdvi and dvips which use the same path searching code. They are on ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex also. Some people have asked me about the relationship between my releases and the Unix TeX tape available from the Northwest Computing Support Center at the University of Washington. The answer is that my directory `src-5.851/' which the tar files unpack into becomes the directory `TeX3.141/' on the tape; there are not two diverging ports. The UW tape also includes all the fonts, macros, DVI drivers, and other good stuff that you need to have a working TeX system. The Northwest Computing Support Center is supported only by the revenues from the preparation and distribution of tapes, and is required to be fully self-supporting. It receives no support from the University of Washington. I urge you to order a tape if you can afford it, so that NWCSC can continue to afford to organize and distribute UnixTeX. Send email to elizabeth@u.washington.edu for the details. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ %%% The TeXhax digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group %%% and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% where xxx is the nearest geographical site in the %%% tree shown below %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% Here is the BITNET re-distribution tree as shown in a recent %%% REVIEW (The geography is guessed at from the subscription list) %%% %%% CLVM TAMVM1 FINHUTC %%% | | (Finland, Scand, CERN) %%% | | | %%% TeXhax ----> UWAVM ----- MARIST ----- EB0UB011 ----- BNANDP11 %%% | (France,Italy,Spain) (Belgium) %%% | | %%% UBVM HEARN --- DEARN %%% (Netherlands) (Germany) %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% Please be sure you send a valid internet address!! %%% in the form name@domain or name%routing@domain %%% and use the style of the Bitnet one-line message, so that %%% we can find your subscription request easily. %%% %%% JANET: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous FTPing as: %%% machine: directory: filename: %%% tex.ac.uk [.digests.texhax.YY]texhaxyy.nn %%% YY = last two digits of year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%% For further information about TeX Users Group services and publications %%% contact Karen at KLB@MATH.AMS.COM or write to TUG at %%% TeX Users Group %%% P.O. 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Fonts - need 17th century font set ASTROSYM on FILESERV/Niord SPFONTWARE updates on FILESERV/Niord RTF2TeX on FILESERV/Niord XETAL on FILESERV/Niord XYPIC on FILESERV/Niord STMARY on FILESERV/Niord DIAGRAMF on FILESERV/Niord ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 17:45:35 +0700 From: Jiri Vesely Subject: EuroTeX 92 Keywords: Conference, EuroTeX 92, Prague ******* ****** ** * P ** * * * *** *** ** ****** ** * R **** * * ** * * ** ** ** A ** * * * * * ** **** * ** H ******* *** * *** ** ** * ** A ****** 1992 As already announced, EuroTeX 92 is organized by Czechoslovak TeX Users Group in collaboration with Charles University and Czech Technical University, Prague, under the auspices of both Rectors. It takes place in Prague from September 14 to September 18, 1992. The Programme Committee consists of Peter Abbott, Jacques Andre, Jana Chlebikova, Yannis Haralambous, Bernard Gaulle, Karel Horak, Joachim Lammarsch, Kees van der Laan, Erich Neuwirth, Petr Novak, Stefan Porubsky, Phillip Taylor, Jiri Vesely and Jiri Zlatuska. About the Programme: Invited speakers include Yannis Haralambous, John Hobby, Alan Hoenig, Anita Hoover, Chris Rowley, Daniel Taupin, Phillip Taylor. They will cover topics including the usage of TeX for "non-standard" languages, typesetting music, Metafont-like language for PostScript drawings, special effects with Metafont and TeX, Latex3 project, aspect of the use of TeX and LaTeX at University, WEB and even more... Tutorials delivered after the conference by Yannis Haralambous, Phil Taylor and Klaus Thull will cover Metafont and advanced topics in TeX as well as an introduction to WEB. Everybody who want to offer a presentation of results, ideas and experience (despite the expired deadline for submitting papers) should consider contacting the Programme Committee chairman Jiri Zlatuska as soon as possible. Note that camera-ready papers are due to reach him not later than July 10. Suggested topics of special interest include the following themes: Non-standard applications of TeX, national versions and standardization, Quo Vadis, TeX ?, and the use of TeX for small/newly emerging enterprises. Other interesting contributions relevant to TeX are sought. Why come to EuroTeX 92 ? Besides the privilege of hearing the invited talks of leading specialists you will have the pleasure to listen to other lectures and to meet TeXfriends from many countries. The meeting is the first to offer really extensive contacts with people "from behind the iron curtain". It takes place in the Golden Heart of Europe -- Prague, one of the most fascinating capitals in Europe. You can visit it at a surprisingly low cost. Indeed, we would like to make EuroTeX 92 in Prague accessible to the majority of TeXfans from all over the world. It will be arranged at a modest level, yet covering all your needs. It is worth noting that low prices do not mean a compromise in quality, rather, they take advantage of the favourable exchange rates applicable to the "hard currency countries". Other conditions: For about 50 participants (unfortunately, not more) we have reserved rooms from Sunday, Sept 13th. Some participants could have difficulties with proper timing and this is meant especially to help them (apex flights, flights not available everyday, etc.). At least three tutorials will be organized for participants of the EuroTeX 92 *after* the conference (Sept 18, afternoon and Sept 19). Preferences will be given to those who will have paid the fee earlier (number of participants is limited). Accommodation is booked in a modern student hostel Kajetanka in double rooms. Two double rooms form a unit and share facilities. We plan to arrange transport by bus to Czech Technical University, where the programme will be held (it is within some 25 minutes walk from Kajetanka). All participants will be provided with a card for all Prague public transport during the period Monday - Friday. Lunches will be served at the conference site; during breaks some refreshments will be available free of charge. Dinners are not included in order to enable you to research Czech restaurants and pubs on your own. An informal welcome party will be held on Monday evening, 7 p.m. An organ concert will take place probably on Wednesday and some other pleasant surprises are not excluded. To those who will arrive on Monday morning or during Sunday we would like to offer a sightseeing tour on Monday afternoon (still under negotiation). The whole programme from Monday to Friday forms a package (accommodation in double rooms, half pension from Tuesday to Friday, opening party on Monday evening, concert, conference fee, proceedings, tutorials for those who will stay a bit longer) for 330 DM. Those who would prefer a single room would pay 60 DM extra. For *additional* 35 DM (45 DM for a single room) a day, a limited number of participants may stay untill Sunday (one or two days more) either for tutorials or just to enjoy meeting friends and to have good beer in some of the pubs, such as Good Soldier Svejk liked. For accompanying persons, a special programme will be organized including visits to galleries, places of interest, etc. They will be asked to pay 285 DM and are not supposed to order single rooms. Payment: Those who are interested and have already decided to take part or want to get the package for the reduced price are requested to send money via the following account 34735-021/0100 at KOMER\v CN\'I BANKA, PRAHA (there is one "hacek" and one "prime" accent in its name: please, do not forget to use them). The address of the bank is KOMER\v CN\'I BANKA, pob. Praha -- M\v ESTO, Vaclavske nam. 42 110 00 PRAHA 1 Czechoslovakia while the name of the account is \v Ceskoslovensk\'e sdru\v zen\'\i{} u\v zivatel\accent23u TEXu (our surface address (in Czech): Sokolovsk\'a 83, 186 00 Praha 8, Czechoslovakia). Important !!! : If the payment is sent before July 1, 1992, you can deduct 35 DM >From the price of the package and pay only 295 DM (250 DM). There is no deduction for extras, the price remains the same. We will send a hard copy of the registration form to those who already asked for registration and gave us the whole address. You can also print the form distributed in TeX version (plain) and fill it in. The separate file relating to this is included below. Please, enclose an indication on how you have transmitted the payment to the above account and, if possible, send us a xerocopy of the order. It could help us to trace it (Czechoslovak money transfer system is still not quite efficient, but something called "swift" is already available). We were told that the important thing is to use CZECH name of the bank mentioned above since its translation would cause some mistakes. Cancellation: In case of cancellation (please, do not do it, you would miss a lot of fun !) we will refund you the amount you paid minus a sum which regretably has to be deducted: for cancellation done before July 15, 1992 it will be 10 DM, for the period from July 16, 1992 till September 12 it will be 10 \% of the payment, and after this date it will be 10 \% plus the costs of already paid necessities. Climate: Since much of Prague fascination is historical, architectural and cultural, it can be enjoyed at any time. The average maximum temperature in September is 18~o C (64~o F) and the weather is relatively stable. Currency: The Czechoslovak Crown is rated approx. 17:1 to DM, approx. 28:1 to USD. Recently, prices of goods have been increased somewhat. They are slowly approaching "western standards" but in many respects Czechoslovakia is considered favourable and cheap for western tourists. Transport: Czechoslovakia is easily accessible by plane. The Prague's airport is about 15 km from the city centre (the Kajetanka hostel is even a bit closer). Public transport is relatively cheap, but going by taxi, it is better to agree on the fare beforehand, since prices are not fixed and actually depend on drivers. Roads are relatively good but with only a few motorways which are not so fast as in the West (speed limits: 110 km/h on motorways, 90 on roads, 60 in towns). Parking in Prague is generally difficult. There are places to park in the neighbourhood of the hostel, but not a (guarded) parking. International trains connect Prague with Berlin, Munich, Nurnberg, Wien, Warszawa, Budapest, etc. More particulars will be given in the next (and last) announcement. Important note: We can host approx. 300 participants/accompanying persons. On July 10th we must specify the figures, therefore we encourage everybody to use the reduced price (available untill July 1). Later on, we would have difficulties with a varying number of participants. We hope that you will understand our situation. Do not hesitate to address your questions to the organizers (please, use e-mail, if possible). Those who are interested in taking part are requested to fill in the following form (*provided they have not done so before*) and send it via e-mail to the address: eurotex at cspguk11.bitnet - ------------------------ cut here -------------------------- I intend to take part in EuroTeX 92, Prague (14.-18.9.1992) name: userid: node: - -------------------------------------------------------------------- You will receive a hard copy of the registration form. You can use also the electronic version of the form enclosed. Please TeX it, print it, fill it in in block letters and send it to CS TeX --- EUROTEX 92 Mathematical Institute Sokolovska 83 186 00 PRAHA 8 - Karlin Czechoslovakia) On behalf of the organizers: Karel Horak Jiri Vesely Jiri Zlatuska **************** Registration form (to be TeXed with plain): %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % I am sorry that there was a mistake in the Registration % % form of EuroTeX 92: here is the revised form of it. % % Thanks for undersanding. Best regards. George Vesely % % Prague, May 27, 1992 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \hsize 14cm \magnification 1200 \nopagenumbers \parindent 0pt \baselineskip 13.4pt \def\square{\vbox to 3.5mm {\hrule\vss\hbox to 3.5mm {\vrule height3.5mm\hfil\vrule} \vss\hrule}\hfilneg} \font\hl=cmbx12 \settabs 2\columns \centerline{\hl REGISTRATION FORM of EURO\TeX\ 92 ${}~{*)}$} \footnote{}{${}~{*)}$ Please, delete any part of the text which is not applicable; for accompanying persons fill in an extra form. } \medskip \+Regular participant \dotfill\hfilneg\square\quad& Accompanying person\dotfill \hfilneg\square&\cr \medskip \+Name: \dotfill\hfilneg\quad &First name: \dotfill\hfilneg&\cr \+Institution: \dotfill\hfilneg\quad &Nationality: \dotfill\hfilneg&\cr \line{Address (choose the one which is preferable to contact you around September 1, 1992):}\par \indent\dotfill\hfilneg\par \indent \dotfill\hfilneg\par \indent \dotfill\hfilneg\par email address: \dotfill\hfilneg\par \vskip3pt I will take part at Euro\TeX\ 92 conference in Prague (September 14. -- 18. (20.), 1992) \vskip5pt \+& Signature:\dotfill\hfilneg&\cr \medskip \leftline{\bf I am sending (will send) the payment for:}\par \medskip {\rightskip 30mm {\bf Package} (arrival Sept 14, welcome party, halfpension Sept 15 -- 18, organ concert, conference fee, refreshment during breaks, materials, proceedings, card for public transport for Sept 14 -- 18, departure Sept 18) \par} Paid before 1.7.1992 : \dotfill\hfilneg{\bf 295 DM}\quad \square\par Paid after 1.7.1992 : \dotfill\hfilneg{\bf 330 DM}\quad \square\par \medskip {\rightskip 30mm {\bf Package for accompanying person} (arrival Sept 14, welcome party, halfpension Sept 15 - -- 18, organ concert, card for public transport for Sept 14 -- 18, departure Sept 18) \par} Paid before 1.7.1992 :\dotfill\hfilneg{\bf 250 DM}\quad \square\par Paid after 1.7.1992 :\dotfill\hfilneg{\bf 285 DM}\quad \square\par \leftline{\bf Extras:} \medskip {\rightskip30mm \leftline{Extended stay:} I will come on Sunday, Sept 17. (Please, contact J.Vesel\'y by email {\tt }, whether the capacity is not yet ex\-ceed\-ed, pay {\bf after} the positive answer.)\par} \hfill{\bf 35 DM} for double room \quad \square\qquad {\bf 45 DM} for single room \quad \square\hbox{}\par I will leave on Saturday, Sept 19 \par \hfill{\bf 35 DM} for double room \quad \square\qquad {\bf 45 DM} for single room \quad \square\hbox{}\par I will leave on Sunday, Sept 20 \par \hfill{\bf 70 DM} for double room \quad \square\qquad {\bf 90 DM} for single room \quad \square\hbox{}\par \medskip I will pay for single room from Monday to Friday\hfill{\bf 60 DM} for single room \quad \square\hbox{}\par I will (would like) share a double room with (agreement of both persons is necessary)\par \indent\dotfill\hfilneg \medskip \leftline{Please, indicate your interests:} I would like to take part in sightseeing tour on Monday, Sept 14, at 2 p.m. \hfill \square\par \medskip I am interested in the Metafont tutorial \hfill\square\par I am interested in the Advanced \TeX\ tutorial \hfill\square\par I am interested in the WEB tutorial \hfill\square\par (Available only for those who will stay longer; remark that some other tutorials are under the negotiation. The number of possible participans in tutorials will be probably limited.) \medskip \leftline{The following items would be paid provided the performances would be available:} I would like to visit during my stay \quad Laterna Magica Theatre \hfill\square\par \indent\phantom{I would like to visit during my stay\quad} Black Theatre \hfill\square\par I would like to have guided walk with some other participants through Prague\par \hskip60mm on Saturday, Sept 19, morning \hfill \square\par \hskip60mm on Saturday, Sept 19, afternoon \hfill \square\par \hskip60mm on Sunday, Sept 20, morning \hfill \square\par I would like to use the Euro\TeX\ 92 email address for messages for me \hfill \square\par I should appreciate access to PC's for exchange of sw \hfill \square\par \medskip Total sum sent on (date): \dotfill \ 1992\hfill\qquad \dotfill \quad {\bf DM}\hfilneg \medskip Please, sum carefully all entries you have ordered. The ammount would be sent on the account:\par \smallskip \centerline{34735-021/0100 at KOMER\v CN\'I BANKA, PRAHA} (there is one "hacek" and one "prime" accent in its name: please, do not forget to use them). The address of the bank is\par \centerline{ KOMER\v CN\'I BANKA, pob. Praha -- M\v ESTO,} \centerline{ V\'aclavsk\'e n\'am. 42, 110 00 PRAHA 1} \centerline{ Czechoslovakia} while the name of the account is \centerline{Ceskoslovenske sdruzeni uzivatelu TEXu} Our surface address (in Czech): Sokolovsk\'a 83, 186 00 Praha 8, Czechoslovakia \bye ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 92 11:13:00 -0500 From: bukys@edu.rochester.cs Subject: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC Keywords: DVI, dot-matrix, printers, drivers, PC I am looking for the cheapest possible combination of dot-matrix printer and driver for PC-compatibles. I am poking around the usual FTP sites but if anyone can provide any direct pointers I would be grateful. Please don't suggest a cheap laser printer, as this printer needs to go far away to a place where toner cartridges are in short supply, but re-inking a ribbon or printing through a carbon is much more practical. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 92 10:47:15 -0800 From: TSAI@edu.ACUSD.USDCSV Subject: bibtex help wanted Keywords: BibTeX, VAX/VMS, errors One of our Physics professors is trapped into the following errors while running bibtex, which style file , aip.bst, he obtained was from Wisconsin school when he was a graduate student there. Since we do NOT have any bibtex gurus here, is anyone on this list have any clues? Your helpful information is tremendously appreciated. Please direct information to me and I summerize to post if there is enough interested. Allen Tsai Univeristy of San Diego tsai@usdcsv.acusd.edu - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is BibTeX, VAX/VMS Version 0.99c The top-level auxiliary file: DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]ENDR.AUX;24 The style file: DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 Database file #1: DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS]MIRROR.BIB;2 "" is a string literal, not a function, while executing---line 809 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 1 is an integer literal, not a function, while executing---line 809 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 0 is an integer literal, not a function, while executing---line 809 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 "0" is a string literal, not a function, for entry kustom:rsi84 while executing---line 811 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 1 is an integer literal, not a function, for entry kustom:rsi84 while executing---line 811 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 "0" is a string literal, not a function, for entry kustom:jgr85 while executing---line 811 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 1 is an integer literal, not a function, for entry kustom:jgr85 while executing---line 811 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 "0" is a string literal, not a function, for entry ilic:pf73 while executing---line 811 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 1 is an integer literal, not a function, for entry ilic:pf73 while executing---line 811 of file DUA1:[SEVERN.REPORTS.ENDRING]AIP.BST;1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 92 12:59:00 +0000 From: J.L.Braams%nl.ptt.research@uk.ac.earn-relay Subject: MathTime and LaTeX Keywords: Macros, MathTime, LaTeX/NFSS, integration Hi, I recently bought the MathTime package from TeXplorators. It comes with macros designed to use with either plain TeX, AMSTeX or LamsTeX. But, as you would have expected from Spivak no support for LaTeX, let alone NFSS is provided. Now, I'm think I could build that myself, but if anyone already did it and is willing to share his results with me that would save me some time. So, please, if anybody already integrated the MathTime fonts with NFSS and LaTeX, could I use your macros? Thanks in advance, Johannes Braams PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 (was : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 May 92 16:31:53 -0500 From: karl Subject: Lucida for TeX version 1.1 available Keywords: Fonts, PostScript, metrics, Lucida A few weeks ago I put metric files for using the PostScript Lucida fonts with TeX on ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/lucida/lucida.tar.Z I've updated that to version 1.1. This version includes two files from Sebastian Rahtz for using Lucida with NFSS. I haven't tested them myself. These files will be of no use to you unless you also have the Type 1 PFA/PFB/etc. files with the outlines. This includes the math fonts as a (more or less) drop-in replacement for Computer Modern. I've worked some on the magic math font parameters, but no doubt improvements are possible. I used virtual fonts to do this. I suggest using Tom Rokicki's dvips as your DVI-to-PostScript program. dvips is on labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*.tar.Z. Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz, who did much of the initial work, and Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes, who designed the typefaces. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 92 10:02:00 +0000 From: CBTS8001%ie.ucc.iruccvax@uk.ac.earn-relay Subject: dvican (Canon LBP8 lasers) Keywords: DVI, drivers, Canon LBP-8 I have a user with a Canon laser, which resembles (externally) a HPLJII. At the moment he is using a s/w product called LaserTwin which runs mem-res on a PC and claims to make the Canon emulate a HPLJ. The dvihp programs sort of work on it, but their character placement is very flaky, so I thought I'd try for dvican instead. I downloaded Nelson's drivers, and found this comment at the top of dvican.c /* -*-C-*- dvican.c */ /* Developed for Canon LBP-8 A2 from DVIIMP.C and DVIJEP.C [03-Jan-87] Page references in comments refer to Canon LBP-8 A1/A2 Laser Beam Printer User's Manual edition PUB.R-IE-034-V1C.0186B2.5 (1985) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NB: This is a preliminary release. Serious problems with the Canon A2 downloaded font mechanism force loading of characters as bitmaps at every reference, making it very slow.... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (a) is there a newer version anywhere? If this is *that* slow, it may be unuseable. (b) has anyone got a properly working version of a dvican? (c) do any of the commercial vendors support these old Canon printers? ///Peter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Jun 92 12:11:40 -0500 From: deng@edu.sunysb.ams (Yuefan Deng) Subject: DVI previewing on Tektronix? Keywords: DVI, preview, Tektronix Would anybody know how to preview *.dvi on a Tektronics terminal? Or the best, is there any public file that converts *.ps to Tektronics input. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Jun 92 15:21:56 -0500 From: JERRY LEICHTER Subject: re: Regulations for theses Keywords: theses, regulations David Rhead asks for experiences with typeset theses. Here's one experience >From the US: Yale University accepts the LaTeX standard styles, with the default settings. There's a bit of a story here, though. The first dissertation printed this way at Yale was John Ellis's, back in about 1986 or 1987. Several subsequent theses were set "double spaced", and when it came time for me to prepare my thesis in 1989, it had become folk wisdom among those I talked to that "the university requires double spacing". I decided to ask John how he'd gotten away with it, since everyone else was apparently running into a bureaucratic brick wall. It turns out he didn't need to do anything special. He printed up a small sample as he wished the whole thing to appear and sought out the one person with final say on thesis formats - a woman who's been doing the job for many years. She was apparently impressed and very pleased to see such high-quality output. She didn't raise any objections to the non-double-spacing; in fact, she just wished all theses could look as good as John's. About a year later, Josh Benaloh used a modified form of John's style and got a single-spaced thesis accepted. Following in John's tracks, I also brought a sample along to the appropriate office. Since "everyone knew" that double spacing was required, I also brought one with a linestretch of about 1.2 - the least I could use that might still fool someone into thinking the text was "double spaced". The "final authority" who John had talked to wasn't in that day, but other people in the office saw no problem with my "single-spaced" sample. I left it with them for final vetting by the "authority"; it was granted with no questions a couple of days later. The actual style I used was a minor variation of article. Most of the variation was stylistic - e.g., I used bold san serif for heads. I also modified the text width and height to match the published university requirements. These modifications, which I inherited from Josh's style, were quite small, and frankly I doubt anyone would have noticed or cared if I hadn't made them. So where did the belief that "double spacing is REQUIRED" come from? Who knows! No one chose to ask - people just parroted what they had heard. At least one other thesis, Ruben Michel's, used my settings. Another group at Yale produced an independent "yalethesis" style option. It had a great many special hacks in it, some of them again alleged to be "university requirements". For example, they were somehow led to believe that Yale required the bibliography to appear before the appendices. I put it after (which seemed much more logical) and no one complained. Again, the power of "everyone knows that ...". In any case, several theses using this style, which uses normal linespacing, have been accepted. So you can definitely count Yale in as a typographically enlightened place. The moral of the story: Things may not be as bad as you are led to believe. Don't take rumors and stories and even dog-eared specifications printed up years ago at face value: Talk to the people who actually make the decisions. You may find them more reasonable than you expect. It's a BIG help to bring along a couple of samples to show how the text SHOULD look, and how it would look if "double spaced". If there are any questions about what might be acceptable, try and get the official in charge to note on your sample that it is acceptable, and sign and date it. This should help avoid last-minute problems. BTW, there are many ways to play the game hardball. For example, if the spec says "double spacing", print the double-spaced sample with a baseline stretch of 2. It will look TERRIBLE. (Typewriter double spacing is really much closer to a baseline stretch of 1.5.) If it looks as if getting single spacing is going to be impossible, try and get away with as small a baseline stretch as you can. If presented in isolation, a baseline stretch of 1.2 can look pretty "double-spaced", and while hardly ideal it's not as bad as it might be. You can make it look even better in comparison by preparing a "single spaced" document with a baseline stretch of, oh, .9 or so. (This is only SLIGHTLY cheating - single spaced typewriter text is VERY tight, which is why the whole demand for double spacing appeared in the first place. So don't describe it in typographical terms - describe it as "like typewriter single spacing", which it is.) And, of course, chose for your sample a page that will really show off what decent typesetting can do: Sections with nice heads, perhaps a nice graphic figure, beautiful mathematical formulas if appropriate, and so on. Keep 'em looking at the positive and they may forget about "the rules". -- Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Jun 92 05:19:57 -0600 From: Ralph Johnson Subject: Regulations for theses Keywords: theses, regulations In the U.S., all theses are given to University Microfilms, a company that will reconstitute theses on demand and for a fee. Both Cornell and U. of Illinois claim that this company requires double spacing to reduce errors during this process. I am not sure that this is true, but it is an argument that is hard to refute. Are their any U.S. schools that permit single-spacing? The common solution is to make two versions of the thesis, one that is ugly for the university, and one that is formatted correctly for departmental tech reports, for distribution electronically, etc. Ralph Johnson -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 03 Jun 92 18:01:31 -0500 From: mauricio@edu.ufl.aero.mozart Subject: Re: PC version of tex Keywords: TeX, PC, implementation > Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above? > I am a new-comer to the world of tex, and I would also like to > get some good documentation on the use of tex for thesis/book > writing. Can anyone recommend any good books? Thanks in advance. > Your first stop should be wuarchive.wustl.edu, directory mirrors/msdos/tex. Get their 00-something file and see what you need to downlo ad. About the documentation, try to download a copy of a document called "A Gentle Introduction to TeX" and take a look at it. If I am not mistaken, it makes reference to other books that might be what you want as a next step. ------------------------------ Date: 04 Jun 92 09:39:18 +0000 From: Mike Piff Subject: AMS fonts in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, AMS, fonts darrell@edu.ucsc.cse writes: >Does anyone have a style file to use the Euler fonts with straight LaTeX? I'm >not anxious to learn AMSLaTeX, but I'd like to use the Euler fonts. I have developed the following AMS.STY file, together with OLDAMS.STY, to use the MSAM, MSBM and EUFM fonts. It needs AMSFONTS.STY from the AMSLATEX collection if you have the New Font Selection Scheme loaded. Both substitute the better-looking \leq and \geq variants, and also define common symbols such as \C, \R, \Q, \Z. Otherwise, use \Bbb{S}, \frak{i}, etc. \newsymbol is defined for use of the more esoteric symbols. USAGE: \documentstyle[12pt,ams]{article} etc. Mike Piff - -----------------------------AMS.STY----------------------------------------- \typeout{Extra font style, Mike Piff, last modified 01/10/91 10:05am} \typeout{\string\input\string{amssym\string} if you want the full AMS symbol se t} \ifx\selectfont\undefined \def\tmp{\input{oldams.sty}\endinput} \else \let\tmp\relax \fi \tmp \def\setboxz@h{\setbox\z@\hbox} \def\RIfM@{\relax\protect\ifmmode} \def\boxz@{\box\z@} \def\wdz@{\wd\z@} \input amsfonts.sty \gdef\newsymbol#1#2#3#4#5{% \edef\next@ {\ifcase #2 \or \hexnumber@{\msa@group}\or \hexnumber@{\msb@group}\fi}% \ifx\next@\@empty \err@{\Invalid@@\newsymbol}\@ehd% \else \global\mathchardef#1"#3\next@#4#5 \fi}% \def\Bbb#1{\relax\protect\ifmmode{\protect\pBbb{#1}}\else$\protect\pBbb{#1}$ \fi} \def\frak#1{\relax\protect\ifmmode{\goth{#1}}\else$\goth{#1}$\fi} \def\C{\Bbb C} \def\F{\Bbb F} \def\N{\Bbb N} \def\Q{\Bbb Q} \def\R{\Bbb R} \def\T{\Bbb T} \def\Z{\Bbb Z} \def\undefine#1{\let#1\undefined} \undefine\le \undefine\leq \undefine\ge \undefine\geq \undefine\tick \undefine\square \newsymbol\le 1336 \newsymbol\leq 1336 \newsymbol\ge 133E \newsymbol\geq 133E \newsymbol\tick 1058 \undefine\Box \newsymbol\Box1003 \undefine\lhd \undefine\rhd \undefine\unlhd \undefine\unrhd \newsymbol\lhd1343 \newsymbol\rhd1342 \newsymbol\unlhd1345 \newsymbol\unrhd1 344 \undefine\sqsubset \undefine\sqsupset \newsymbol\sqsubset1340 \newsymbol\sqsupset1341 \undefine\mho \undefine\leadsto \undefine\Diamond \newsymbol\mho2066 \newsymbol\leadsto1320 \newsymbol\Diamond1006 \let\Join=\bowtie - ------------------------------END AMS.STY------------------------------------ - - \typeout{You forgot to cut off OLDAMS.STY here!!!} - ------------------------------OLDAMS.STY------------------------------------- \typeout{Pre-NFSS style, Mike Piff, last modified 06/08/89 03:25pm} \newfam\msafam \newfam\msbfam \newfam\eufam \def\msf@nt#1#2#3#4{\textfont#1=#2\scriptfont#1=#3\scriptscriptfont#1=#4} \ifcase\@ptsize %TEN POINT \font\fivmsa=msam5 \font\sevmsa=msam7 \font\tenmsa=msam10 \font\twlmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frtmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep2 \font\fivmsb=msbm5 \font\sevmsb=msbm7 \font\tenmsb=msbm10 \font\twlmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frtmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep2 \font\fiveuf=eufm5 \font\seveuf=eufm7 \font\teneuf=eufm10 \font\twleuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frteuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep2 \def\@vpt{\msf@nt\msafam\fivmsa\fivmsa\fivmsa \msf@nt\eufam\fiveuf\fiveuf\fiveuf \msf@nt\msbfam\fivmsb\fivmsb\fivmsb} \def\@viipt{\msf@nt\msafam\sevmsa\fivmsa\fivmsa \msf@nt\eufam\seveuf\fiveuf\fiveuf \msf@nt\msbfam\sevmsb\fivmsb\fivmsb} \def\@viiipt{\@viipt} \def\@ixpt{\@xpt} \def\@xpt{\msf@nt\msafam\tenmsa\sevmsa\fivmsa \msf@nt\eufam\teneuf\seveuf\fiveuf \msf@nt\msbfam\tenmsb\sevmsb\fivmsb} \def\@xiipt{\msf@nt\msafam\twlmsa\sevmsa\fivmsa \msf@nt\eufam\twleuf\seveuf\fiveuf \msf@nt\msbfam\twlmsb\sevmsb\fivmsb} \def\@xivpt{\msf@nt\msafam\frtmsa\tenmsa\sevmsa \msf@nt\eufam\frteuf\teneuf\seveuf \msf@nt\msbfam\frtmsb\tenmsb\sevmsb} \def\@xviipt{\@xivpt} \def\@xxpt{\@xivpt} \def\@xxvpt{\@xivpt} \or %ELEVEN POINT \font\sixmsa=msam5 scaled\magstep1 \font\egtmsa=msam7 scaled\magstephalf \font\elvmsa=msam10 scaled\magstephalf \font\twlmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frtmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep2 \font\sixmsb=msbm5 scaled\magstep1 \font\egtmsb=msbm7 scaled\magstephalf \font\elvmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstephalf \font\twlmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frtmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep2 \font\sixeuf=eufm5 scaled\magstep1 \font\egteuf=eufm7 scaled\magstephalf \font\elveuf=eufm10 scaled\magstephalf \font\twleuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frteuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep2 \def\@vipt{\msf@nt\msafam\sixmsa\sixmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\sixeuf\sixeuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\sixmsb\sixmsb\sixmsb} \def\@viiipt{\msf@nt\msafam\egtmsa\sixmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\egteuf\sixeuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\egtmsb\sixmsb\sixmsb} \def\@ixpt{\@viiipt} \def\@xpt{\@xipt} \def\@xipt{\msf@nt\msafam\elvmsa\egtmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\elveuf\egteuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\elvmsb\egtmsb\sixmsb} \def\@xiipt{\msf@nt\msafam\twlmsa\egtmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\twleuf\egteuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\twlmsb\egtmsb\sixmsb} \def\@xivpt{\msf@nt\msafam\frtmsa\elvmsa\egtmsa \msf@nt\eufam\frteuf\elveuf\egteuf \msf@nt\msbfam\frtmsb\elvmsb\egtmsb} \def\@xviipt{\@xivpt} \def\@xxpt{\@xivpt} \def\@xxvpt{\@xivpt} \or %TWELVE POINT \font\sixmsa=msam5 scaled\magstep1 \font\egtmsa=msam7 scaled\magstephalf \font\twlmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frtmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep2 \font\svtmsa=msam10 scaled\magstep3 \font\sixmsb=msbm5 scaled\magstep1 \font\egtmsb=msbm7 scaled\magstephalf \font\twlmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frtmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep2 \font\svtmsb=msbm10 scaled\magstep3 \font\sixeuf=eufm5 scaled\magstep1 \font\egteuf=eufm7 scaled\magstephalf \font\twleuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep1 \font\frteuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep2 \font\svteuf=eufm10 scaled\magstep3 \def\@vipt{\msf@nt\msafam\sixmsa\sixmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\sixeuf\sixeuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\sixmsb\sixmsb\sixmsb} \def\@viiipt{\msf@nt\msafam\egtmsa\sixmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\egteuf\sixeuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\egtmsb\sixmsb\sixmsb} \def\@xpt{\@viiipt} \def\@xipt{\@xiipt} \def\@xiipt{\msf@nt\msafam\twlmsa\egtmsa\sixmsa \msf@nt\eufam\twleuf\egteuf\sixeuf \msf@nt\msbfam\twlmsb\egtmsb\sixmsb} \def\@xivpt{\msf@nt\msafam\frtmsa\twlmsa\egtmsa \msf@nt\eufam\frteuf\twleuf\egteuf \msf@nt\msbfam\frtmsb\twlmsb\egtmsb} \def\@xviipt{\msf@nt\msafam\svtmsa\twlmsa\egtmsa \msf@nt\eufam\svteuf\twleuf\egteuf \msf@nt\msbfam\svtmsb\twlmsb\egtmsb} \def\@xxpt{\@xviipt} \def\@xxvpt{\@xviipt} \fi \normalsize \def\Bbb#1{\relax\ifmmode{\fam\msbfam{#1}}\else$\fam\msbfam{#1}$\fi} \def\frak#1{\relax\ifmmode{\fam\eufam{#1}}\else$\fam\eufam{#1}$\fi} \let\goth\frak \def\hex#1{\ifcase#1 0\or1\or2\or3\or4\or5\or6\or7\or8\or9\or A\or B\or C\or D\or E\or F\fi} \def\mathhexbox@#1#2#3{\mbox{$\m@th\mathchar"#1#2#3$}} \mathchardef\dabar@"0\hex\msafam39 \def\dashrightarrow{\mathrel{\dabar@\dabar@\mathchar"0\hex\msafam4B}}% \def\dashleftarrow{\mathrel{\mathchar"0\hex\msafam4C\dabar@\dabar@}}% \let\dasharrow\dashrightarrow \def\ulcorner{\delimiter"4\hex\msafam70\hex\msafam70 } \def\urcorner{\delimiter"5\hex\msafam71\hex\msafam71 } \def\llcorner{\delimiter"4\hex\msafam78\hex\msafam78 } \def\lrcorner{\delimiter"5\hex\msafam79\hex\msafam79 } \def\yen{{\mathhexbox@\hex\msafam55 }} \def\checkmark{{\mathhexbox@{\hex\msafam}58 }} \def\circledR{{\mathhexbox@{\hex\msafam}72 }} \def\maltese{{\mathhexbox@{\hex\msafam}7A }} \def\setboxz@h{\setbox0=\hbox} \def\wdz@{\wd\z@} \def\widehat#1{% \setboxz@h{$\m@th#1$}\ifdim\wdz@>\tw@ em\mathaccent"0\hex\msbfam5B{#1}\else \mathaccent"0362{#1}\fi} \def\widetilde#1{% \setboxz@h{$\m@th#1$}\ifdim\wdz@>\tw@ em\mathaccent"0\hex\msbfam5D{#1}\else \mathaccent"0365{#1}\fi} \def\newsymbol#1#2#3#4#5{% \mathchardef#1="#3\ifcase#2\or\hex\msafam\or\hex\msbfam\fi#4#5 % } \def\undefine#1{\let#1\undefined}% %% The common ones are:- \def\C{\Bbb C} \def\F{\Bbb F} \def\N{\Bbb N} \def\Q{\Bbb Q} \def\R{\Bbb R} \def\T{\Bbb T} \def\Z{\Bbb Z} \newsymbol\le 1336 \newsymbol\leq 1336 \newsymbol\ge 133E \newsymbol\geq 133E ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 11:52:07 +0100 From: Frank Jensen Subject: Re: Euler with LaTeX? Keywords: LateX, Euler, Concrete, fonts > Does anyone have a style file to use the Euler fonts with straight > LaTeX? I'm not anxious to learn AMSLaTeX, but I'd like to use the > Euler fonts. I have experimental versions of styles for using the AMS Euler and the Concrete fonts with LaTeX. These styles can be obtained by anonymous ftp to iesd.auc.dk (directory latex/concrete-and-euler). - --- Frank Jensen, fj@iesd.auc.dk Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Aalborg University DENMARK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 13:08:19 -0800 From: frederic@edu.Stanford.kchalot (Frederic Chalot) Subject: Fonts - need 17th century font set Keywords: Fonts, 17th century, long s I am looking for a 17th century font set in order to typeset old French texts. What I am particularly looking for is a font which contains the lower case "long s", which looks like an "f" with no horizontal bar. -------*****------- Frederic Chalot, Scientific Computing & Computational Mathematics Division of Applied Mechanics, Stanford University "Il n'est pas defendu d'attendre et il est toujours doux d'esperer!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 92 15:30:34 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: ASTROSYM on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: METAFONT, fonts, astronomical symbols In response to questions appearing from time to time on INFO-TeX, TeXhax, UKTeX, comp.text.tex, and other places for astrological/astronomical symbols in TeX, Peter Schmitt has prepared a set of MetaFont files. He has kindly passed them along for our archives and your use. Below is the description file. - --George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ASTROSYM -------- ASTROSYM includes Peter Schmitt's MetaFont code to create an AstroSym font containing the astronomical symbols used for the planets and the signs of the zodiac. The shapes of the symbols are taken >From various sources. For some symbols more than one shape was found -- for these symbols variants are included. The shapes were reviewed by some historians and astronomers, and the `main shape' reflects their preference. The main style used for the symbols in AstroSym is calligraphic (strokes of varying breadth). An additional version uses a uniform stroke. It is supplied in two variants (thin and thick strokes). The size of the symbols, and the breadth of the stroke, can easily be changed in the driver file. The MetaFont code of AstroSym uses the plain base, but is completely independent of the cm-fonts. The AstrSym-font contains the following characters: calligraphic style: \char0 - \char10 : main shape - the planetary system \char11 - \char22 : main shape - the signs of the zodiac \char23 - \char28 : variant shapes uniform stroke, bold : \char100 - \char128 uniform stroke, thin : \char200 - \char228 To retrieve the complete ASTROSYM package of seven files, include: SENDME ASTROSYM in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). If, for some reason, you should require only a specific file from this set, say, ASTROSYM.UNI, include: SENDME ASTROSYM.UNI in your mail message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp access, the files are in the [.ASTROSYM] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). In addition to the individual files, a ZIP file (00_ASTROSYM.ZIP) is available. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Purpose - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASTROSYM.CAL 35 Character definitions - calligraphic style only ASTROSYM.COM 10 Character definitions - common to both styles ASTROSYM.DOC 6 A README-type information file ASTROSYM.MAC 7 The macro file ASTROSYM.MF 5 The driver file ASTROSYM.TEX 4 Sample file with symbol list ASTROSYM.UNI 22 Character definitions - uniform stroke only Approximate total blocks in full ASTROSYM package = 89 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Jun 92 15:42:22 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: SPFONTWARE updates on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: Fonts, utilities, PK, HP softfonts Norm Walsh forwarded updates for two packages in his SPFONTWARE package. These are the addition of MRGSF131.ZIP (MergeSFP, version 1.31) and PK2SF211.ZIP (PKtoSFP, version 2.11). These two files, in ZIP format, are available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the [.SPFONTWARE] directory. For mail retrieval from FILESERV, the files have been UUENCODEd and split into mailable parts, SPFONTWARE.MRGSF131_UUE_nOF3 and SPFONTWARE.PK2SF211_UUE_nOF4. To retrieve the updates via mail, include: SENDME SPFONTWARE.MRGSF* SENDME SPFONTWARE.PK2SF* in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For a complete listing of SPFONTWARE, include the command LIST SPFONTWARE in your mail to FILESERV. Attached are Norm's announcements. Regards, George - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcing MergeSFP v1.31 MergeSFP to is a free utility from Small Planet Software. MergeSFP combines multiple HP softfont files into a single softfont. MergeSFP is an MS-DOS program. MergeSFP v1.31 fixes two small bugs present in the 1.30 release. Through an oversite on my part, the sample .MRG files distributed with MergeSFP use an equal sign to seperate /master option from it's parameter (i.e. /master=#1). The documentation states that a colon should be used (and, in fact, the option isn't recognized with the "="). I've change MergeSFP so that either a colon or an equal sign can be used. Additionally, the /symset options didn't have any effect in MergeSFP v1.30. Features in brief: - many options for defining the output softfont - handles class 2 compressed softfonts - Complete documentation provided in a DVI file. Caveats: (Hey, I gotta be fair...) - The source code is not available (at present, anyway). - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcing PKtoSFP v2.11 PKtoSFP to is a free utility from Small Planet Software. PKtoSFP converts TeX fonts into LaserJet softfont files. PKtoSFP is an MS-DOS program. The significant change from 2.10 to 2.11 is the correction of a long-standing bug in the way that PKtoSFP reads TeX PK files. Without going into too much detail, every character definition in a PK file begins with a "flag byte" that indicates what kind of character header is used for the following character. PKtoSFP (prior to v2.11) misinterpreted some flag values. This could have resulted in a corrupt SFP file but was more likely to cause PKtoSFP to issue an "insufficient memory" message. I've converted hundreds of fonts and (so far) have only found one font that used this flag byte (a PS2PK'd version of an "illuminated manuscript"-like font). Secondarily, I've fixed a deficiency in PKtoSFP that caused it to ignore the high-order part of a /type number larger than 255. Features in brief: - Converts directly from PK files (allowing up to 256 characters/font) - Automatically handles the \L slash character at position '040 in the TeX font (so your softfont doesn't have a non-blank space). - Handles PK fonts created for other (non 300x300dpi) output devices. - Complete documentation provided in a DVI file. Caveats: (Hey, I gotta be fair...) - The source code is not available (at present, anyway). ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 12:18:18 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: RTF2TeX on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: TeX, RTF, conversion, utility Robert Lupton's RTF2TeX, an RTF to TeX converter, came to my attention recently and I have retrieved it for your access. Below is the description file for this package. - --George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- RTF2TeX ------- The RTF2TeX package includes the files for Robert Lupton's RTF2TeX, an RTF to TeX converter. RTF2TeX is a filter built on Paul DuBois' RTF reader that converts RTF (Microsoft's Rich Text Format) into TeX. RTF2TeX expends a good deal of effort in an attempt to make the resulting TeX maintainable and modifiable. To retrieve the entire package of 11 files in 12 parts, include: SENDME RTF2TEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu) To retrieve a specific file from this package, such as RTF2TEX.RTF2TEX_MAN, include: SENDME RTF2TEX.RTF2TEX_MAN in your mail message to FILESERV. A ZIP file, RTF2TEX-FTP.ZIP, is available for anonymous ftp retrieval in the [.RTF2TEX] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RTF2TEX.AA_VERSION_H 1 AA_VERSION.H RTF2TEX.FONTS_H 12 FONTS.H RTF2TEX.INSTALL 2 INSTALL RTF2TEX.MAKEFILE 2 MAKEFILE RTF2TEX.READER_C 74 READER.C RTF2TEX.README 4 README RTF2TEX.RTF2TEX_C_1OF2 80 RTF2TEX.C (part 1 of 2) RTF2TEX.RTF2TEX_C_2OF2 59 append to part 1 of RTF2TEX.RTF2TEX_C_2OF2 RTF2TEX.RTF2TEX_MAN 8 RTF2TEX.MAN RTF2TEX.RTF_H 27 RTF.H RTF2TEX.TEX_DEFS_TEX 3 TEX_DEFS.TEX RTF2TEX._GDB_HISTORY 1 .GDB_HISTORY Approximate total blocks in full RTF2TeX package = 273 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 13:54:23 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: XETAL on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, syntax check, deTeXifier A few days ago, Raphael Cerf posted a notice of the availability of his xetal. It's now available for mail or ftp retrieval >From FILESERV and Niord. Attached is the description file. - --George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- XETAL ----- The XETAL package includes the files for the January 27, 1992, release (Version 1.2) of Raphael Cerf's XETAL detexifier program. XETAL removes all commands and mathematical formulas from tex and latex files. XETAL can also be used to perform elementary syntax checks on tex files. It recognizes some basic tex and latex commands. To retrieve the entire package of 13 files, please include the command: SENDME XETAL in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file from this package, such as XETAL.XETAL_1, include: SENDME XETAL.XETAL_1 in your mail message to FILESERV. A ZIP file, XETAL-1_2.ZIP, is available for anonymous ftp retrieval in the [.XETAL] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- XETAL.COPYING 26 COPYING XETAL.GLBL_H 5 glbl.h XETAL.L_L 57 l.l XETAL.MAIN_C 15 main.c XETAL.MAKEFILE 5 makefile XETAL.PROTO_H 6 proto.h XETAL.README 2 README XETAL.STACK_C 5 stack.c XETAL.STACK_H 4 stack.h XETAL.STR_C 3 str.c XETAL.STR_H 3 str.h XETAL.XETAL_1 5 xetal.1 XETAL.Y_Y 38 y.y Approximate total blocks in full XETAL package = 174 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Jun 92 16:22:34 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: XYPIC on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX, AMS-LaTeX, macros, diagrams, AMSTeX PPT style After seeing some discussion on and interest in it, I have retrieved Kristoffer H. Rose's XYPIC for your access. Attached is the description file from FILESERV. Regards, George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- XYPIC ----- XYPIC includes the files for Kristoffer H. Rose's February 24, 1992 release (Version 2.5) of XY-pic and XPPT. XY-pic is a macro package for AMS-TeX, plain TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-LaTeX for typesetting diagrams with the following characteristics: -- Specified as a matrix of entries aligned in rows and columns. -- Any entry may be connected to any other entry using arrows that are automatically rotated and stretched as required to meet their target; a variety of arrow styles may be used. -- Arrows may be decorated with labels that are `tied` to a specified point of the arrow independent of its direction. -- Special support for arrows that cross each other, arrows that `go by' other entries, combined arrows, and arrows that bend around other entries. -- Support for entries and arrows that are independent of the matrix structure. XPPT is a document style for AMS-TeX that extend the standard AMSPPT `pretty-print' and compatible styles. Highlights include: -- cross-references, -- automatic numbering of headings, captions, and theorems, -- table of contents generation, -- Bib-TeX bibliography interface, -- inclusion of `verbatim' program text, and -- options for 8-bit characters, RCS interface, and much more. To retrieve the package of 24 files distributed in 26 parts, include: SENDME XYPIC in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file from this package, such as XYPIC.PPTFIXES_TEX, include: SENDME XYPIC.PPTFIXES_TEX in your mail message to FILESERV. A ZIP file, XYPIV-2_5.ZIP, is available for anonymous ftp retrieval in the [.XYPIC] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: In directory: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- XYPIC.COPYING 37 COPYING /xypic XYPIC.JFPPPT_STY 10 jfpppt.sty /xypic/xppt XYPIC.LNCS_STY 25 lncs.sty /xypic/xppt XYPIC.MAKEFILE 13 Makefile /xypic XYPIC.PPTFIXES_TEX 11 pptfixes.tex /xypic/xppt XYPIC.README 15 README /xypic XYPIC.README_XPPT 48 README /xypic/xppt XYPIC.TRAILER 5 TRAILER /xypic XYPIC.TRAILER_XPPT 4 TRAILER /xypic/xppt XYPIC.XFIXED_TEX 7 xfixed.tex /xypic/xppt XYPIC.XLATIN1_TEX_UUE 16 xlatin1.tex /xypic/xppt NOTE: This file is UUENCODEd; it contains some non-mailable ASCII characters XYPIC.XPPT_BST 61 xppt.bst /xypic/xppt XYPIC.XPPT_STY 2 xppt.sty /xypic/xppt XYPIC.XPPT_TEX 18 xppt.tex /xypic/xppt XYPIC.XRCS_TEX 4 xrcs.tex /xypic/xppt XYPIC.XYAMSTEX_DOC 6 xyamstex.doc /xypic XYPIC.XYATIP10_MF 8 xyatip10.mf /xypic XYPIC.XYBTIP10_MF 8 xybtip10.mf /xypic XYPIC.XYLINE10_MF 8 xyline10.mf /xypic XYPIC.XYMISC10_MF 10 xymisc10.mf /xypic XYPIC.XYPICMAN_DOC_1OF2 79 xypicman.doc /xypic XYPIC.XYPICMAN_DOC_2OF2 16 Part 2 of xypicman.doc XYPIC.XYPIC_BIB 15 xypic.bib /xypic XYPIC.XYPIC_DOC_1OF2 77 xypic.doc /xypic XYPIC.XYPIC_DOC_2OF2 77 Part 2 of xypic.doc XYPIC.XYPIC_STY 1 xypic.sty /xypic Approximate total blocks in full XYPIC package = 581 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Jun 92 14:30:34 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: STMARY on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: Fonts, symbols, math First, apologies to anyone who received an abended message on this. David Jones forwarded along two packages for inclusion in our archives. The first is the St Mary's Road symbol package by Jeremy Gibbons and Alan Jeffrey . Attached is the description file. - --George - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- STMARY ------ The STMARY package includes the files of the St Mary's Road symbol package by Jeremy Gibbons and Alan Jeffrey . This package contains a number of new commands for use in math mode, and a new document style option ``module'', for modularizing large .sty files. The St Mary's Road symbol package contains a font designed to complement the AMS symbol fonts by adding symbols for domain theory, linear logic, process theory and program calculation, including the double square brackets. By defining over 100 new commands, the package provides support for new: -- large operators -- binary operators -- relations -- arrows -- delimiters -- special symbols used for building other symbols To accommodate TeX implementations with limited memory, these symbols can be added selectively via the innovative module approach used in this package. Also, support is provided for the Old Font Selection Scheme and the New Font Selection Scheme. To retrive this package of 19 files, include: SENDME STMARY in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). Should you require a selected file from this package, such as STMARY.MODULE_STY, include: SENDME STMARY.MODULE_STY in your mail message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval, the file STMARY-1_1.ZIP resides in the [.STMARY] directory of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STMARY.LTUGBOAT_STY 38 LTUGBOAT.STY STMARY.MODULE_STY 22 MODULE.STY STMARY.MSAM_STY 23 MSAM.STY STMARY.MSBM_STY 20 MSBM.STY STMARY.README 3 README STMARY.STMARY10_MF 6 STMARY10.MF STMARY.STMARY5_MF 6 STMARY5.MF STMARY.STMARY6_MF 6 STMARY6.MF STMARY.STMARY7_MF 6 STMARY7.MF STMARY.STMARY8_MF 6 STMARY8.MF STMARY.STMARY9_MF 6 STMARY9.MF STMARY.STMARYAJ_MF 83 STMARYAJ.MF STMARY.STMARYBA_MF 11 STMARYBA.MF STMARY.STMARYCH_MF 17 STMARYCH.MF STMARY.STMARYJG_MF 49 STMARYJG.MF STMARY.STMARYRD_MF 9 STMARYRD.MF STMARY.STMARYRD_STY 26 STMARYRD.STY STMARY.STMARYRD_TEX 49 STMARYRD.TEX STMARY.TUGBOAT_CMN 57 TUGBOAT.CMN Approximate total blocks in full STMARY package = 443 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Jun 92 15:17:26 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: DIAGRAMF on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, METAFONT, diagrams, macros The second of Jeremy and Alan's packages David submitted to our archives for your access is diagramf -- an interface between (La)TeX and MetaFont. Attached is the description for your reference. - --Geoorge - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- DIAGRAMF -------- The DIAGRAMF package includes the files associated with the June 2, 1992, (version 1.1) release of Jeremy Gibbons' and Alan Jeffrey's diagramf interface for importing diagrams drawn in MetaFont to (La)TeX. In the DIAGRAMF package, TeX and MF communicate by auxiliary files, in a similar fashion to the MG TeX-PostScript interface (`Problems on the TeX/PostScript/graphics interface', TUGboat 11(3)). When you run MF on an *.MF file, it reads in a related *.DIM file, which specifies the dimensions of all the boxes. From this, MF calculates where to put each label, and outputs a .DIA file, containing TeX code. Similarly, when TeX encounters the instruction \diagramfile{*} it loads in *.DIA and produces *.DIM. And so we can have our MF cake and eat it in TeX. To retrive the package of 8 files, include the command: SENDME DIAGRAMF in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve the specific file DIAGRAMF.ARROWS_MF, include SENDME DIAGRAMF.ARROWS_MF in your mail to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp access, the file DIAGRAMF-1_1.ZIP resides in the [.DIAGRAMF] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIAGRAMF.ARROWS_MF 14 ARROWS.MF DIAGRAMF.DIAGRAMF_MF 21 DIAGRAMF.MF DIAGRAMF.DIAGRAMF_STY 16 DIAGRAMF.STY DIAGRAMF.DIAGRAMF_TEX 21 DIAGRAMF.TEX DIAGRAMF.DMFEXMPL_MF 8 DMFEXMPL.MF DIAGRAMF.LTUGBOAT_STY 36 LTUGBOAT.STY DIAGRAMF.README 1 README DIAGRAMF.TUGBOAT_CMN 54 TUGBOAT.CMN Approximate total blocks in full DIAGRAMf package = 171 ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% JANET: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp as: %%% machine directory filename %%% TEX.AC.UK [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% YY = last two digits of current year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 11] ***************************************** 25-Jun-1992 18:54:54-GMT,38472;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from dir.nott.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA28033; Thu, 25 Jun 92 12:54:43 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <28957-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Thu, 25 Jun 1992 18:24:15 +0100 From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution:;@mips.nott.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #012 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 18:24:15 +0100 Message-Id: <7851.709493055@mips.nott.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Thursday, 25 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 012 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Typesetting for Theses (TeXhax Digest V92 #009) Overlaying postscript figures with LaTeX fragments Latex or Tex in Japanese Download fonts from unix Use of the FAQ posting (was: LaTeX hyphenation problems) DeskTop and Electronic Publishing in Astronomy and Space Sciences LaTEX Re: LaTEX Re: Not exactly a submission ... Bibtex is driving me nuts Problems with PiCTeX in LaTeX Re: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC, Re: PC version of tex Looking for files Looking for a few things plain.tex won't INI !!! Regulations for theses: microfilming dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC Re: Fonts - need 17th century font set Style updates on FILESERV/Niord MS-DOS compiled versions of ZIP/UNZIP on FILESERV/Niord SPAN access to FILESERV/Niord FLOAT on FILESERV/Niord ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 17:16:45 -0800 From: mackay@edu.washington.cs Subject: Typesetting for Theses (TeXhax Digest V92 #009) Keywords: theses, regulations To follow up on David Rhead's very useful remarks, I should like to ask whether any antiquarians within reach of TeXhax can locate some history of the fight (which must have occurred) over allowing the grubby mechanical typescript to be submitted as a final copy of the thesis in the first place. I'll bet it was fierce, and it is richly comic to have Graduate School Bureaucrats now standing firmly in the way of a return to typesetting quality---and they do. Properly spaced typesetter fonts look terrible when printed with typewriter linespacing. If that is what your Graduate School insists on, you might just as well set everything in Adobe Courier, and have done with it. Email concerned with UnixTeX distribution software should be sent primarily to: elisabet@max.u.washington.edu Elizabeth Tachikawa otherwise to: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Northwest Computing Support Center TUG Site Coordinator for Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-6259 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 18:11:49 -0800 From: Craig Barratt Subject: Overlaying postscript figures with LaTeX fragments Keywords: LaTeX, postscript, overlay, ghostscript, dvips I have written some LaTeX macros that make it easy to overlay postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. I use these macros to place nice LaTeX equations and math symbols on top of postscript figures. The macros are available via anonymous ftp as described below. Description: * PsFrag is a set of LaTeX macros for overlaying postscript figures with fragments of LaTeX. More precisely, the PsFrag macros allow specific pieces of postscript text in a postscript figure (included via \epsfbox or \special) to be replaced with arbitrary fragments of LaTeX. When your document is latex'ed and dvips'ed, each piece of postscript text is replaced by the LaTeX text. The postscript file might be produced, for example, by xfig, idraw, matlab, xmath, etc. Each string displayed by postscript's show operator is a candidate for replacement by LaTeX text, math symbols, equations, pictures etc. For example, you can include a matlab plot in a LaTeX document with the title, axis labels, and legend generated by LaTeX. The LaTeX fragments can be optionally rotated, scaled, and repositioned relative to the text being replaced. The LaTeX fragments automatically track the postscript text position as the scaling and offsets of the \special or \epsfbox are changed. * PsFrag consists of four files: - epsf.sty: a slightly modified version of the original epsf.tex that supports PsFrag. It's upward compatible with the old version, so it should work just the same when used without PsFrag. - psfrag.sty: contains the psfrag macros. - ps2psfrag: a shell script that uses ghostscript to find out the position, orientation and content of each piece of text that a particular postscript file displays (shows). This has to be run once for each postscript figure. - ps2psfrag.ps: a postscript file used by ps2psfrag. * PsFrag is available via anonymous ftp from isl.stanford.edu (36.60.0.10). After logging in, cd to the directory pub/boyd/psfrag, and set binary mode. Get the compressed tar file psfrag.tar.Z, uncompress it, and tar xvf it: uncompress psfrag.tar.Z tar xvf psfrag.tar (The uncompressed tar file occupies about 60K.) See the files README, USAGE, INSTALL for detailed information. * Note: PsFrag uses ghostscript (gs) and assumes that your dvi to ps driver is Tomas Rokicki's dvips. Nothing will work if you don't have these programs. Craig Barratt craig@isl.stanford.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jun 92 22:34:33 -0800 From: aotani@edu.berkeley.math (masayasu aotani) Subject: Latex or Tex in Japanese Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, Japanese, languages Does anyone know how to typeset Japanese using Tex ? Our local gurus cannot provide any help on this one. Please help us. - -M. AOTANI ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Jun 92 16:25:26 -0600 From: glenn@com.wri Subject: Download fonts from unix Keywords: fonts, PostScript, download Is there a way to download fonts to an apple laser printer from a unix file server? What would this way be, how could I obtain it? thanks. glenn@wri.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 15:09:55 +0000 From: Chris Thompson Subject: Use of the FAQ posting (was: LaTeX hyphenation problems) Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, hyphenation, FAQ In TeXhax digest #10, Rachelle Edmond writes: > ... A particular problem arose when a LaTeX file > was processed on an Ultrix machine, running TeX v3.14: the > hyphenation mechanism broke words in parculiar places: > > (i.e.: ... application of geostatistical method- > ==> s, we invite you to...). > > This is not the case on any of the other machines I tested > running TeX v3.1 or v3.14 (Suns, SGIs & DECs). This a golden oldie (well, middle-agedie, perhaps) for many of us, of course: No criticism of the poster implied. It is succinctly covered in the monthly comp.text.tex FAQ ("frequently asked questions", for the acronym-challenged) posting: > 28) TeX and LaTeX are hyphenating words weirdly. What can I do? > > You have a version mismatch problem. The hyphenation algorithm changed > between version 2.9 and 3.0. If you are using TeX version 3.0 or > later, make sure that you have plain.tex and lplain.tex files with > a version number of at least 3.0. The technical details: in TeX 3.0 and later there are integer parameters \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin which must be set to 3 and 2 to achieve the same effect as in earlier versions of TeX. As a result of an unfortunate (IMHO) design decision, INITeX leaves them set to zero; hence you need an (l)plain.tex that sets them properly. If you don't know what (l)plain.tex your format file was made with, check \fmtversion (and/or the values of \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin directly). Of course, the observed effect could theoretically be due to some other problem with (La)TeX. But it never is... I would recommend that even those who don't, can't, or won't follow all of comp.text.tex (and I have been in all three categories myself at various times) should get their hands on a copy of the FAQ. If you don't have access to USENET, then you can use anonymous ftp from pub/usenet/news.answers/tex-faq at pit-manager.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) or send an e-mail message containing the line ``SENDME FAQ.'' to fileserv@shsu.edu (or fileserv@shsu.bitnet) Acknowledgement: the FAQ posting is maintained by Bobby Bodenheimer , to whom many thanks are due. Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 15:06:44 +0000 From: Andre HECK Subject: DeskTop and Electronic Publishing in Astronomy and Space Sciences Keywords: Conference, proceedings The proceedings of the colloquium "Desktop Publishing in Astronomy and Space Sciences" held in Strasbourg, France, from October 1 to 3, 1991, are now available from World Scientific, Singapore (Ed. A. Heck, xii + 240 p., ISBN 981-02-0915-0). Refer to TeXhax Disgest issues V91 #014 & #026 for announcements of this meeting. The proceedings offer also the results of the survey carried out beforehand (refer to TeXhax Digest issue V91 #027). The returned questionnaires concern about 3,700 persons from more than 160 institutions in 23 countries. They point to a majoritarian use of TeX and associated packages on machines approximately equally distributed among PCs and compatible machines, DEC computers and SUN stations. This rough tendency has however to be nuanced by the discussion presented in the proceedings and by the comments reported from the questionnaires. Next September, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is organizing another conference entitled "Astronomy from Large Databases - II" with sponsors including NASA, ESA, ESO, CNRS, CNES, IAPR and other institutions. A specific session will be devoted to intelligent information retrieval with reports on the latest status of desktop and electronic publishing in astronomy and space sciences. Interested persons can receive more information on both the proceedings of last year DTP meeting and this year ALD-II conference by contacting A. Heck at heck@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr or heck@frccsc21.bitnet or by fax at +33 (France) - 88.49.12.55. Please provide fax number and/or postal address if you wish to receive full documentation on paper. Andre HECK -+- * Phone (direct) +33-88.35.82.22 Observatoire Astronomique * Phone (Secretary) +33-88.35.82.18 11, rue de l'Universite -+- * Fax (direct) +33-88.49.12.55 F-67000 Strasbourg * -+- Fax (Secretary) +33-88.25.01.60 France -+- * * Telex 890506 starobs f ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 12:07:51 -0500 From: charlie@com.grumman.gdstech (Charlie Cusenza) Subject: LaTEX Keywords: LaTeX, archives Hello, Where can I access the latest version of LaTEX? What Anonymous FTP sites exist? thanks Charles Cusenza ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 18:03:57 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: LaTEX Keywords: LaTeX, archives, FAQ In message <9206151607.AA20378@gdstech.grumman.com> of 15 Jun 92 12:07:51 EDT, Charlie Cusenza said: > Hello, Where can I access the latest version of LaTEX? What Anonymous > FTP sites exist? This is covered in item 22 of the TeX Frequently Asked Questions list, posted regularly in USENET newsgroup comp.text.tex. You can get a copy using anonymous ftp to pit-manager.mit.edu, fetching file pub/usenet/news.answers/tex-faq; or by mail to fileserv@shsu.edu, sending a message containing "SENDME FAQ." (without quotes). - --David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 10:43:50 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: Not exactly a submission ... Keywords: archives, ftp, UK TeX Archive, Aston In message <9206141031.AA14090@netcom.netcom.com> of 14 Jun 92 3:31:11 PDT, Harry Bartholomew said: > Rather more a question, I've tried to get back issues as described on the > last page of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 9]. The following is a captured > log of my failure. What is my mistake ? > > Terminal type is vt100 > {Netcom:52} ftp tex.ac.uk > Connected to tex.ac.uk. > 220 TeX.ac.uk CMU-Tek FTP for UCX (V1.3-2, 11 Nov 1991) ready. > Name (tex.ac.uk:bart): anonymous > 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. > Password: > 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. > ftp> cd .tex.digests.texhax.90 tex.ac.uk is a VAX running VMS, which means (unfortunately) you have to use VMS directory syntax to navigate the filestore. You should enclose the directory spec in square brackets... cd [.tex.digests.texhax.90] for example. Changing up a directory level is accomplished by "cd [-]" or your ftp client probably supports the syntax-independent command "cdup". - --David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 07:47:54 -0800 From: carlos@edu.berkeley.argon (Carlos Mastrangelo) Subject: Bibtex is driving me nuts Keywords: BibTeX, IEEE, numbered references Hi There TeXFolks, I am trying to use latex to prepare all my written documents. I use bibtex very often to do the automatic sorting and numbering of references. I use the ieee format ieeetr.sty. One problem that is a big nuissance is that when numbering multiple references, the program inserts [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] instead than the much better way of [1-7] Have you solve this problem ? Is there something easy that can be done to fix this very bad bug ? Thanks a lot Carlos H. Mastrangelo Ford Motor Co. Scientific Research Labs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 17:44:25 +0100 From: sven@se.gu.ling (Sven Stroemqvist) Subject: Problems with PiCTeX in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, PiCTeX Hi, I'm a devoted LaTeX user since 1989. I'm associate prof of linguistics at the Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden, where we have a net with SUNs and Sparcs and, of course, TeX for those of us who like that sort of thing. Now to my problem: I've recently started to work on a SparcBook and everything works to my satisfaction except that PicTeX won't work for me. When I try to process my old TeX documents which have prepictex, pictex and postpictex as include files, the process stops when it is in the middle of the pictex.tex input file. More precisely, there are two lines in that input filea in relation to the which there is an error message: 1) the line starting "\setplotsymbol..." and the line "\setshadesymbol...". The error message is: "!Undefined control se quence" But, why?! I need a Wizard to help me out on this one. Yours, Sven Stromqvist Dept of Linguistics, Univ of Gothenburg sven@ling.gu.se ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 16:26:01 +0100 From: Wolfgang Ratzka Subject: Re: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC, Re: PC version of tex Keywords: TeX, PC, implementation, DVI, dot-matrix, printers, drivers > I am looking for the cheapest possible combination of > dot-matrix printer and driver for PC-compatibles. - -------- > Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above? You might want to try emTeX, which comes with a collection of drivers It is free and supports virtually any dot-matrix printer on the market. (It can be configured to work even with exotic models --- as long as they are capable of printing graphics.) emTeX should be available around the usual FTP sites, e.g. (I copied the following >From an emTeX README file). at rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de in soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.emtex] archive.cs.ruu.nl in TEX/emtex utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp in TeX/emtex ponder.csci.unt.edu in pub/TeX/EmTeX It will save you time if you don't even try to use DOSTeX. ______________________________________________________ Wolfgang Ratzka X400: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.dbp.de ratzka@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de SMTP: ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 13:48:09 -0800 From: carlos@edu.berkeley.argon (Carlos Mastrangelo) Subject: Looking for files Keywords: LaTeX, styles Subject: Looking for a few things Hi There, Thanks a lot to all of you who responded to my earlier request. I am looking for the following : rangecite.sty and citesort.sty I am also looking for the IBM_PC EXECUTABLES of the dvi driver for the canon printers. Do you know where I may get these from ? Unix system is prefered. Carlos Mastrangelo carlos@nectar.srl.ford.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 11:59:39 +0000 From: pflynn@ie.ucc.curia (Peter Flynn) Subject: plain.tex won't INI !!! Keywords: TeX, installation, INITEX, plain.tex <*scream*> Having pestered the life out of Sebastian trying to get src-5.851c TeX to compile on my Sun, and *finally* got it bodged to work, I now try make formats and it gags on plain.tex. I really can't believe this: curia# make formats cd tex; TEXPOOL=.; export TEXPOOL; make formats="tex.fmt latex.fmt etex.fmt" fo r mats ./initex plain \\dump This is TeX, C Version 3.141 (INITEX) (/usr/local/lib/tex/macros/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, more fonts, macros, math definitions, Runaway definition? - ->{\vbox {\ialign {$\m@th \scriptstyle ##$\crcr \not \mathrel ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000]. l.792 \not\mathrel{ \mkern14mu}\crcr No pages of output. Transcript written on plain.log. *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `tex.fmt' Current working directory /tools/tex/src-5.851c/tex *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `stamp-formats' curia# Everything was compiled with gcc-2.2 and worked fine, once I'd got the hang of using -traditional and running gcc's fixincludes. The plain.tex I'm using came from Aston yesterday: it INITEXes just fine under emTeX on my PC. Help! ///Peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 13:13:18 +0000 From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme Subject: Regulations for theses: microfilming Keywords: theses, regulations In TeXhax V92, #011, Ralph Johnson suggests that Cornell, U. of Illinios, and perhaps other places specify double-spacing because the authorities at these places imagine that double-spacing is "necessary" for microfilming. In the UK, theses are microfilmed by the British Library. The British Library was represented on the committee that recently re-drafted the relevant British Standard, BS 4821, and the standard was drafted with microfilming in mind. It says "at least one [copy] should be of a quality suitable for microfilming, and therefore should follow the recommendations in 4.2 to 4.6 and 7.1". Section 4.2 is concerned with colour. Section 4.3 is concerned with quality of reproduction. Sections 4.4-4.6 say (in effect) "use white A4 paper that is sufficiently opaque". Section 7.1 says "size of character used in the main text ... should be not less than 2.0 mm for capitals and 1.5 mm for x-height". Thus line-spacing does not seem to be a matter of specific concern for microfilming. (For "typeset" theses, the BS requires "enough space between lines to allow people ease of horizontal scanning" and "the space between lines at any point should be not less than the space between words". But these requirements are there anyway, not specifically for microfilming.) So, on this limited evidence, it looks to me as though UK micro-filmers are concerned about SOME ASPECTS of a thesis that wouldn't concern "normal readers" --- but inter-line spacing ISN'T ONE OF THESE ASPECTS that are of extra concern to micro-filmers. Also microfilm-ers microfilm newspapers (e.g., you can get "The Times" on micro-something), so I assume that standard typesetter line-spacing is OK in that situation. If the British Library, as represented on the British Standards committee, doesn't wish to specify any extra requirements for line-spacing for microfilming (over and above the line-spacing requirements for "ordinary reading"), I'd guess that University Microfilms too would say that they are more concerned about character size and print quality than about having line-spacing that is different from that for "ordinary reading". Is there a TeXhax reader who is geographically close to University Microfilms' headquarters and could (as Jerry Leichter puts it) "talk to the people who actually make the decisions" and find out whether their requirements for TYPESET theses are really what the rumours circulating at Cornell and U. of Illinois say they are? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 21:27:31 +0100 From: Peer.Stritzinger@de.TU-Muenchen.Physik Subject: dot-matrix printers, drivers for PC Keywords: TeX, drivers, PC, dot-matrix Take any cheap dot-matrix printer that suits you. Get the excelent dvidrv package contained in em-TeX (which is an excelent PD implementation of TeX and all the other stuff (Metafont, BibTeX etc.) for the PC. The dot matrix driver is fully configurable via a Parameter file. I can't think of a dot matrix printer it wouldn't support. Here a part of the description listing some configurations already included. - ------------------------------------------------------------ dvidrv includes the following drivers: dviscr screen previewer (CGA, EGA, VGA, HGC, and other adapters) dvivik screen previewer (Viking I) dvimsp create graphic file (MSP or PCX) dvihplj HP LaserJet+, HP DeskJet and Kyocera F-1010 dvidot dot-matrix printers (configurable) The following parameter files for dvidot are supplied: Param. Printers Resolution Environ. /pf* file (incomplete list) h x v DPI variable default setting - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- fx80 EPSON FX and RX series 240x216 DVIFX \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi fx100 EPSON FX and RX series 240x216 DVIFX \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi lql EPSON LQ series 180x180 DVILQL \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi lqm EPSON LQ series 360x180 DVILQM \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi lqh EPSON LQ series 360x360 DVILQH \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi lqwl EPSON LQ series (wide) 180x180 DVILQL \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi lqwm EPSON LQ series (wide) 360x180 DVILQM \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi lqwh EPSON LQ series (wide) 360x360 DVILQM \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi p6l NEC P6 180x180 DVIP6L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi p6m NEC P6 360x180 DVIP6M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi p6h NEC P6, Panasonic KX-P1124 360x360 DVIP6H \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi p7l NEC P7 180x180 DVIP6L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi p7m NEC P7 360x180 DVIP6M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi p7h NEC P7 360x360 DVIP6H \emtex\pixel.p6h\$rdpi itoh C.ITOH 8510A 160x144 DVIITOH \emtex\pixel.ito\$rdpi aiw Apple Imagewriter 160x144 DVIAIW \emtex\pixel.aiw\$rdpi dmp130 Tandy DMP-130 240x216 DVIDMP \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi ibm4201 IBM Proprinter 4201 240x216 DVI4201 \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi ibm4202 IBM Proprinter 4202 240x216 DVI4202 \emtex\pixel.fx\$rdpi ibm4207l IBM Proprinter 4207 180x180 DVI4207L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi ibm4207m IBM Proprinter 4207 360x180 DVI4207M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi ibm4208l IBM Proprinter 4208 180x180 DVI4208L \emtex\pixel.p6l\$rdpi ibm4208m IBM Proprinter 4208 360x180 DVI4208M \emtex\pixel.p6m\$rdpi - ------------------------------------------------------------ You can get emTex via - - Anonymous ftp: rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23] [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.emtex] archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] TEX/emtex utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.11] TeX/emtex ponder.csci.unt.edu [129.120.3.16] pub/TeX/EmTeX - - Mail-Server: mail-server@rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de mail-server@cs.ruu.nl texserver@uk.ac.tex (UK) texserver@tex.ac.uk (outside UK) If you have problems getting it, drop me a mail and I will help you. Peer Stritzinger Phone: +(49)8141-90613 Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 21:36:31 +0100 From: Peer.Stritzinger@de.TU-Muenchen.Physik Subject: Re: Fonts - need 17th century font set Keywords: fonts, old French, old German I think you can use Yannis Haralambous excellent Fonts for old German. There is a Fraktur, Schwabacher, Gotisch and big Initials. See his article in TUGboat Vol. 12 Num. 1 (March 1991) p. 129 He has done serveral other old-languages fonts since then, perhaps he has one especialy for old French. Peer Stritzinger Phone: +(49)8141-90613 Internet: stritzi@physik.tu-muenchen.de ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 16:38:03 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: Style updates on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, style, archives, FILESERV/niord Donald Arseneau kindly forwarded me four style updates recently. The affected files are cite.sty, overcite.sty, tabls.sty, and ulem.sty. Briefly: CITE -- Compress ranges of citation numbers; adjust spacing; allow spaces in input; \citen gives just number(s). OVERCITE -- Like cite.sty, but superscripts; handles punctuation. TABLS -- Keep text in {tabular} & {array} from touching vertically ULEM -- Underlining for emphasis (\em). Define \ULine{..} also. In [over]cite, he added % Version 1992: Use \@citepunct for commas so it is easier to change. Now, where commas are used as delimiters (i.e., [4-7,9,8,Einstein,6]), you have control over whether or not a space exists. Also, in overcite (only), he added \/ to allow hyphenation of the previous word -- looks better in italics. In tabls, the version is raised to 3.1 from 3.0. 3.1 adds some braces to match some updates to LaTeX. In ulem, the most work appears -- now it is acceptable as a plain TeX macro! % Version 1992: make " {} " give two spaces, as it should; support \newline % and \\, \nolinebreak and \linebreak; add definitions necessary for % plain TeX use. Support various types of `underline'. Quite a few options are now available. To retrieve these files via e-mail, include: SENDME STY.CITE SENDME STY.OVERCITE SENDME STY.TABLS SENDME STY.ULEM in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). For anonymous ftp retrieval, the files are in the syntax associated with the SENDME commands above in the [.STY] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). The TeX community ought to extend its thanks to Donald for his continuing efforts on these useful and popular files, as well as the others he is responsible for creating. Regards, George %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% George D. Greenwade, Ph.D. Bitnet: BED_GDG@SHSU Department of Economics and Business Analysis THEnet: SHSU::BED_GDG College of Business Administration Voice: (409) 294-1266 P. O. Box 2118 FAX: (409) 294-3612 Sam Houston State University Internet: bed_gdg@SHSU.edu Huntsville, TX 77341 bed_gdg%SHSU.decnet@relay.the.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 92 09:22:10 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: MS-DOS compiled versions of ZIP/UNZIP on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: archives, utilities, ZIP, MS-DOS I've had a few private posts from people on MS-DOS machines which, for various reasons, cannot create the UNZIP and ZIP utilities I announced last week (most of them have created it on their larger system and want it for the PC now that they're hooked on its performance and platform independence). I have created yet another package for your access, which contains the pre-compiled MS-DOS executables for your use. Attached is the description file. - --George =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= ZIP_PC_COMPILED --------------- The ZIP_PC_COMPILED package includes UUENCODEd files which include the MS-DOS executables and documentation for Info-Zip's ZIP (v. 1.0) and UNZIP (v. 4.2) utilities. This set is built entirely from the source files distributed in the ZIP and UNZIP packages and is completely compatible with the wide variety of platforms under which those utilities can be compiled. This implementation is largely compatible with the widely-used PK*ZIP suite of utilities, although there are some differences. The UNZIP variant of this distribution UUDECODEs to UNZIP42.EXE, a self-exploding executable which creates the UNZIP executable under MS-DOS, as well as the accompanying documentation. The ZIP variant of this distribution UUDECODEs to a ZIP archive file, which may be unzipped with UNZIP or with most versions of PKUNZIP. The ZIP archive file includes the MS-DOS executable and documentation for ZIP. To retrieve the package of two files distributed in three parts, include: SENDME ZIP_PC_COMPILED in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file, such as ZIP_PC_COMPILED.UNZIP42_UUE, include: SENDME ZIP_PC_COMPILED.UNZIP42_UUE in your mail message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval of these files, they are available in their original form from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [.ZIP_PC_COMPILED]. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ZIP_PC_COMPILED.UNZIP42_UUE 72 UNZIP42.UUE ZIP_PC_COMPILED.ZIP10EXX_UUE_1OF2 79 ZIP10EXX.UUE ZIP_PC_COMPILED.ZIP10EXX_UUE_2OF2 49 (concatenate to part 1, then decode) Approximate total blocks in full ZIP_PC_COMPILED package = 200 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 14:09:40 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: SPAN access to FILESERV/Niord Keywords: archives, access, SPAN, FILESERV/niord As usual, I overlook the simple and obvious. Michael Lemke , who was assisting me on an entirely unrelated topic, pointed out that the archives available on FILESERV and Niord can also be accessed via SPAN since THENET (the Texas Higher Education Network) is SPAN-connected via UTSPAN::UTADNX. Users on SPAN can access SHSU's root archive area in UTSPAN::UTADNX::SHSU::MX_ROOT:[FILESERV] You can then set default to any of the directories built off of the [FILESERV] root, backup, copy, or view the file(s) or directories you wish. Thought I'd pass this along. My thanks to Michael for pointing out this interface tool which we can painlessly make available. Regards, George ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 16:01:42 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: FLOAT on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: LaTeX, style, archives, FILESERV/niord Maybe I've overlooked something very seriously, but I never recall this being announced previously anywhere and didn't find it it anywhere but Stuttgart (didn't look real hard though). I came across a great LaTeX style option while looking around in the rusinfo archives, which I have used a few times and am very pleased with -- Anselm Lingnau's float package. Attached is the description file from FILESERV. - --George =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= FLOAT ----- The FLOAT package includes the files of Anselm Lingnau's float package -- An Improved Environment for Floats -- (version 1.0b; 28 January 1992). This style option improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables in LaTeX. It adds the notion of a `float style' that governs appearance of floats. New kinds of floats may be defined using a \newfloat command analogous to \newtheorem. Among the features of LaTeX are `floating' figures and tables that drift >From where they appear in the input text to, say, the top of a page. The contents and formatting of floats is pretty much up to the user, except that there is a \caption command that governs formatting of the caption -- it is centered if it is short, and formatted as a paragraph if it is longer than a single line of text. Sometimes other types of floating objects, e.g., algorithms or programs, are desirable, but they must be defined by analogy to the existing floats since there is no simple command for doing this. This goes beyond the knowledge or inclination of the average LaTeX user. This style option presents an interface to floating objects that attempts to fix some of these shortcomings. First of all, it introduces the notion of a `float style'. A float style governs the appearance of a class of floats like a page style governs the appearance of a page (LaTeX has page styles plain, empty and headings, among others). This style option provides some exemplary float styles: o plain -- This is the float style that LaTeX normally applies to its floats, i.e., nothing in particular. The only difference is that the caption comes out below the body of the float, regardless of where it is given in the text. o boxed -- The body of the float is printed inside a box. The caption goes below that box. o ruled -- This float style is patterned on the table style of Concrete Mathematics. The caption is printed at the top of the float, surrounded by rules; another rule finishes off the float. The most important command in float.sty is the \newfloat command. As mentioned above, it is patterned on \newtheorem. The use of \newfloat allows the user to create their own floats, as well as supporting a user-defined \listof listing for these floats (analogous to \listoftables), sectional numbering, default positioning by float, the standard LaTeX positioning parameters, and the standard *-forms which produce doube column floats. To retrieve the entire package of 5 files, include: SENDME FLOAT in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve a specific file, such as FLOAT.FLOAT_DOC, include: SENDME FLOAT.FLOAT_DOC in your mail message to FILESERV. For users desiring anonymous ftp retrieval, these files, along with a ZIP archive file containing this package, are available in the [.FLOAT] directory on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8). Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks Save file as: - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FLOAT.DOCSTRIP_CMD 2 DOCSTRIP.CMD FLOAT.FLOAT_DOC 54 FLOAT.DOC FLOAT.FLOAT_TEX 6 FLOAT.TEX FLOAT.FLTEST_TEX 5 FLTEST.TEX FLOAT.README 8 README Approximate total blocks in full FLOAT package = 75 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This package is built using docstrip and multicol. If you require these files, include the message SENDME MULTICOL in your mail to FILESERV. Users of ftp may find these files in the directory [FILESERV.MULTICOL]. ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% JANET: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp as: %%% machine directory filename %%% TEX.AC.UK [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% YY = last two digits of current year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 12] ***************************************** 7-Jul-1992 18:17:28-GMT,18941;000000000001 Return-Path: <@directory.nottingham.ac.uk:TeXhax-request@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA29850; Tue, 7 Jul 92 12:17:12 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Via: uk.ac.nottingham.directory; Tue, 7 Jul 1992 18:16:14 +0100 Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <9501-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Tue, 7 Jul 1992 18:08:25 +0100 From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution:;@directory.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #013 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 18:08:27 +0100 Message-Id: <2602.710528907@mips.nott.ac.uk> Original-Sender: cczdao@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Sender: TeXhax-request@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Tuesday, 7 Jul 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 013 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: Re: BibTeX is driving me nuts Bibtex question RE: Latex or Tex in Japanese Re: Latex or Tex in Japanese (TeXhax Digest V92 #012) Re: Problems with PiCTeX in LaTeX Two-Column format Availability of MAC versions of TeX/LaTex, dvialw, dvips etc. Small suggestion -- not a submission Re: Small suggestion -- not a submission TeX Macro Index ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 22:19:49 -0500 From: karney@gov.pppl.theory (Charles Karney) Subject: Re: BibTeX is driving me nuts Keywords: BibTeX, LaTeX, numbered references, ranges In TeXhax V92 #012, carlos@argon.berkeley.edu asks for BibTeX to collapse multiple citations into ranges to give [1-4] instead of [1,2,3,4]. This is, of course, nothing to do with BibTeX, which deals only with the stuff in the bibliography environment. However, the following definition of \@citex will do the job. I lifted this out of my style for Nuclear Fusion nf.sty (available via anonymous ftp >From lyman.pppl.gov:pub/tex). Stick this definition into a file 'citecollapse.sty' and give 'citecollapse' as an optional argument to \documentstyle. % Collapse citation numbers to ranges. Non-numeric and undefined labels % are handled. No sorting is done. E.g., 1,3,2,3,4,5,foo,1,2,3,?,4,5 % gives 1,3,2-5,foo,1-3,?,4,5 \newcount\@tempcntc \def\@citex[#1]#2{\if@filesw\immediate\write\@auxout{\string\citation{#2}}\fi \@tempcnta\z@\@tempcntb\m@ne\def\@citea{}\@cite{\@for\@citeb:=#2\do {\@ifundefined {b@\@citeb}% {\@citeo\@tempcntb\m@ne\@citea\def\@citea{,\penalty\@m\ }{\bf ?}% \@warning{Citation `\@citeb' on page \thepage \space undefined}}% {\setbox\z@\hbox{\global\@tempcntc0\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname\relax}% \ifnum\@tempcntc=\z@ \@citeo\@tempcntb\m@ne \@citea\def\@citea{,\penalty\@m\ }\hbox{\csname b@\@citeb\endcsname}% \else \advance\@tempcntb\@ne \ifnum\@tempcntb=\@tempcntc \else\advance\@tempcntb\m@ne\@citeo \@tempcnta\@tempcntc\@tempcntb\@tempcntc\fi\fi}}\@citeo}{#1}} \def\@citeo{\ifnum\@tempcnta>\@tempcntb\else\@citea\def\@citea{,\penalty\@m\ }% \ifnum\@tempcnta=\@tempcntb\the\@tempcnta\else {\advance\@tempcnta\@ne\ifnum\@tempcnta=\@tempcntb \else \def\@citea{--}\fi \advance\@tempcnta\m@ne\the\@tempcnta\@citea\the\@tempcntb}\fi\fi} Charles Karney Plasma Physics Laboratory E-mail: Karney@Princeton.EDU Princeton University Phone: +1 609 243 2607 Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 FAX: +1 609 243 2662 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 02:46:15 -0500 From: mpp@edu.brown.cns (Michael P. Perrone) Subject: Bibtex question Keywords: BibTeX, style, sort i need a bibtex .bst file that will sort by the year field but not by the authors' names i looked in plain.bst and it seems like a simple fix but i couldn't get it to work (putting all the "To Be published"'s at the end would be nice too...) thanks! Micheal P. Perrone ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 07:50:00 +0000 From: malcolm Subject: RE: Latex or Tex in Japanese Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, Japanese, languages japanese tex there are at least two implementations of \lq japanese' TeX. you will find references to these in TUGboat, TeXline, and at the TUG conferences. at a pinch, you could contact the president of the japanese user group, proffesor Yoshio Ohno, Dept Elec Eng, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan. he shuold be able to put you in touch with someone in the 500 or so strong japanese group who can help. much easier to plough through old editions of TUGboat though (that's where i would start to look). what is TUGboat you ask. shame on you. malcolm clark president, TUG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 09:56:00 +0200 From: takagi@jp.co.recruit.isr (Shigeyuki Takagi) Subject: Re: Latex or Tex in Japanese (TeXhax Digest V92 #012) Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, Japanese, languages >From: aotani@edu.berkeley.math (masayasu aotani) >Does anyone know how to typeset Japanese using Tex ? >Our local gurus cannot provide any help on this one. There are 2 implementations of Japanese TeX available in Japan. Both are UNIX-TeX based. PC based one called "jawatex" is also announced. About UNIX based versions, one is by NTT Musashino Lab., another is from ASCII. They are called NTT-JTeX and Ascii-JTeX. Their font formats differ and some JLaTeX style files also differ. You can get them via anonymous ftp from utsun.u-tokyo.ac.jp:~ftp/pub/JTeX or some other well known Japanese ftp sites. BUT, PLEASE NOT that you need to PAY for the fonts OR get one of Japanese version of PS printer such as Apple Laser-Writer NTX-J. Previewing is also possible with hacked version of xtex, xdvi, ghostscript... If you need more information write me an E-mail. (Japanese Kanji text mail is preferred ;-) S. Takagi One of Japanese TuG support members takagi@isr.recruit.co.jp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 12:33:36 +0000 From: CHAA006@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax Subject: Re: Problems with PiCTeX in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, PiCTeX Sven --- >More precisely, there are two lines in that input filea in relation >to the which there is an error message: 1) the line starting "\setplotsymbol..." >and the line "\setshadesymbol...". The error message is: "!Undefined control se >quence" But, why?! But more precisely still, _what_ is the `undefined control sequence'? Unless you are more specific ... >I need a Wizard to help me out on this one. ... not even a sorcerer will be able to help you! [Try re-posting, this time including the log file] Philip Taylor, RHBNC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Jun 92 19:58:25 +0000 From: Ian.Collier@uk.ac.ox.prg Subject: Two-Column format Keywords: TeX, two columns Page 417 of the TeXbook lays out a simple two-column format for things such as indexes which have no insertions. Unfortunately I have found that this fails when the index text is just under a page but does not start at the top of the page. The reason is that the text just before the start of two-column format does not feature in the \pagetotal for the first two-column page, so \doublecolumnout is not called at all. At the end of the two-column format, \balancecolumns is called, which outputs two balanced columns too large to fit on the current page, so an underfull \vbox occurs and a large amount of space appears. I have tried altering \pagetotal and/or \pagegoal, but it apparently does not work unless a box has already been put on the current page. Is there a satisfactory solution to this problem? Ian Collier imc@prg.ox.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 92 16:33:00 -0500 From: "DR. JIM WALKER @CRL" Subject: Availability of MAC versions of TeX/LaTex, dvialw, dvips etc. Keywords: TeX, implementation, Macintosh I am about to move from a VAX/VMS environment to a MAC environment (not exactly my idea!), and would like to continue to use LaTeX/SliTex/dvialw/dvips/spell etc. Could some kind soul tell me where I can obtain TeXware for MACs (either anonymous FTP or commercially). Thanks, Jim Walker ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 09:29:58 -0500 From: abw@edu.bu.bucrsb Subject: Small suggestion -- not a submission Keywords: TeXhax Hullo, guys--- So nice to see TeXhax appearing regularly once again. Your work in much appreciated. I am wondering if you might consider ordering the articles with the longer ones towards the end? Especially the meeting notices. I want to at least look at every article (and snaffle things that I can use) and if the shorter ones were at the beginning it would be a bit easier. FYI, comp.risks, for example, puts meeting notices (which are usually pretty long) at the end of the issue. Those interested may read them; others may bail out at that point. ---Al Al B. Wesolowsky abw@bucrsb.bu.edu Chresmology Boston University arc9arn@buacca.bu.edu (cheap rates) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 14:20:13 +0000 From: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk Subject: Re: Small suggestion -- not a submission Keywords: TeXhax Al, In your message of 18 Jun 92 9:29:58 EDT, you said: > I am wondering if you might consider ordering the articles with the > longer ones towards the end? Especially the meeting notices. I want to > at least look at every article (and snaffle things that I can use) and > if the shorter ones were at the beginning it would be a bit easier. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try to do that. - --David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Jul 92 18:51:09 -0500 From: dmjones@edu.mit.lcs.theory (David M. Jones) Subject: TeX Macro Index Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, macros, index I am happy to announce that the first edition of the TeX Macro Index is now available by anonymous ftp and/or mail server from the following sites: [1] archive.cs.ruu.nl [2] ftp.th-darmstadt.de [3] ftp.math.utah.edu [4] Niord.SHSU.edu [5] TeX.ac.uk [6] theory.lcs.mit.edu Full instructions for retrieving the Index from these machines are appended to the end of this message. All of the archives have identical copies of the Index. In order to minimize the burden on the net, please pick the archive closest to you. I am forwarding this announcement to all of the TeX-related mailing lists that I know of. If you belong to a list that does not receive a copy of the message, but which you think would be interested in the Index, please forward this announcement. If you do so, I would appreciate it if you would also tell me the name of the list. A brief description of the Index follows. David M. Jones =========================================================================== This is an index of TeX macros. Its scope includes all macros that are available via anonymous ftp or mail-server or some similar mechanism. Commercial packages will be included only if a full Index entry is supplied to me by the vendor. Since the Index is devoted to macros, fonts and special-purpose programs are mentioned only when they are necessary to explain the purpose of a set of macros. Each entry is divided into several fields with the following functions: Name: The name of the macro package. Description: A short (usually 1-3 line) description of the package. Keywords: A list of keywords to facilitate searching for special-purpose macros, as well as to help describe the macros. A glossary of keywords can be found at the end of the file. Archives: A list of archives where the package can be found. Whenever known, the primary distribution site is marked with an asterisk. Author: The name and address (preferably electronic) of the author of the package. Latest Version: The date and/or version number of the latest release of the package. Supported: Whether or not the package is supported, that is, whether the author wants to receive bug reports and/or comments on the package. See also: A list of other packages with similar features. Note: Any additional information that seems pertinent. In addition to the list of packages, the Index also contains a brief list of TeX Archives with descriptions of the services they offer. =========================================================================== HOW TO RETRIEVE THE TEX MACRO INDEX First, here are some general instructions on anonymous ftp for those who haven't used it before. After deciding which archive you want to use, read the instructions below to find out the following three things: 1) the full name of the machine containing the archive 2) the name of the directory where the TeX Index is located 3) the name of the file containing the Index In addition, you should check the name of the file to see if it ends in ".Z", ".zoo", or ".zip". If so, it is a binary file and you will have to perform an extra step below. Once you have all of this information, you should type the following command: ftp name_of_machine When you are asked for a user name, type "anonymous". When you are asked for a password, type in your email address. Next, type cd name_of_directory If the file you are retrieving is a binary file, then you must now type the command binary Finally, retrieve the file by typing the command get name_of_file Once the transfer is complete, type bye to end the ftp session. [1] archive.cs.ruu.nl (Netherlands) How to get TeX-index.Z from the archive at Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University: NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu. Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET usually works. by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between about 20.00 and 0900 UTC)). ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5] user name: anonymous or ftp password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu) Don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive, compressed or in any other way contains binary data. get TEX/DOC/TeX-index.Z by mail-server: send the following message to mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server): begin path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS) send TEX/DOC/TeX-index.Z end NOTE: *** PLEASE USE VALID INTERNET ADDRESSES IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT USE ADDRESSES WITH ! and @ MIXED !!!! BITNETTERS USE USER@HOST.BITNET *** The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you first issue the request: send HELP - ------------------------- [2] ftp.th-darmstadt.de (Germany) The TeX Macro Index is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75] directory pub/tex/documentation file styles-and-macros.Index.Z - ------------------------- [3] ftp.math.utah.edu (USA) The TeX Macro Index is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.2] in the file pub/tex/tex-index. To retrieve it by e-mail server, send a message to tuglib@math.utah.edu with the subject or body "send tex-index from tex". - ------------------------- [4] Niord.SHSU.edu (USA) To retrieve the Index in 8 parts suitable for electronic mail handling, include the command: SENDME TEX-INDEX in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). To retrieve the latest set of FAQ-related documents (Bobby Bodenheimer's "TeX, LaTeX, etc.: Frequently Asked Questions with Answers", Guoying Chen's "Supplement to the Frequently Asked Questions" and Liam R. E. Quin's "Complete list of all metafont-format fonts in the world"), include the command: SENDME FAQ in your mail request to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), the complete Index may be found in the file [FILESERV.TEX-INDEX]TEX.INDEX and all FAQ-related documents may be found in the directory [FILESERV.FAQ]. - ------------------------- [5] TeX.ac.uk (UK) The TeX Macro Index is available via anonymous ftp, JANET NIFTP and mail server from the UK TeX Archive, TeX.ac.uk [134.151.40.18] in the file [tex-archive.doc]TeX-index.txt. To retrieve it by mail server, send a message to TeXserver@tex.ac.uk containing the following lines FILES [tex-archive.doc]TeX-index.txt - ------------------------- [6] theory.lcs.mit.edu (USA) The TeX Macro Index is available via anonymous ftp and mail server from theory.lcs.mit.edu [18.52.0.92] in the file TeX-index in the directory pub/tex. To retrieve it by mail server, send a message to archive-server@theory.lcs.mit.edu containing the following line send tex TeX-index The Index is also available in compressed, zip'ed and zoo'ed format in the files TeX-index.Z, TeX-index.zip and TeX-index.zoo, respectively. Note that if you want to request one of the compressed files by mail server, you'll have to specify a method of ASCII encoding by including one of the following lines in your mail message: encoder btoa encoder uuencode encoder rscs ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% Concerning subscriptions, address changes, unsubscribing: %%% %%% BITNET: send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% %%% Internet: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% JANET: send a similar one line mail message to %%% TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp as: %%% machine directory filename %%% TEX.AC.UK [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% YY = last two digits of current year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye %%% End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 13] ***************************************** 15-Jul-1992 16:43:35-GMT,16330;000000000001 Return-Path: <@directory.nottingham.ac.uk:TeXhax-request@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA02637; Wed, 15 Jul 92 10:43:29 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Via: uk.ac.nottingham.directory; Wed, 15 Jul 1992 16:44:41 +0100 Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <28204-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Wed, 15 Jul 1992 16:22:49 +0100 From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution:;@directory.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #014 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 16:22:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1232.711213771@mips.nott.ac.uk> Original-Sender: cczdao@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Sender: TeXhax-request@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 15 Jul 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 014 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: version 1.4 of sauter parameter files available robust double-column format Adobe's Carousel Further on Japanese and TeX... New version of supertabular (3.6g) announcing TeX--XeT.change Yet another new version of supertabular Re: TeXhax Digest V92 #013 dvipsk 5.490o available xdvik 0.10 available Problem with times.sty ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 18:52:17 -0500 From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: version 1.4 of sauter parameter files available Keywords: METAFONT, Sauter, Computer Modern, fonts I've updated my distribution of John Sauter's Metafont files to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size. (And others' analogous files to make fonts in other typefaces.) You can get version 1.4 by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/sauter.tar.Z. This release updates parameter files for the Glonti/Samarin Cyrillic for a new version, contributed by Alexander Samarin, with more characters and more typeface variants than previously. The Cyrillic parameter files were contributed by Glenn Thobe (thobe@getunx.info.com) and Wayne Sullivan (wsulivan@irlearn.ucd.ie). This version also adds a NFSS file for LaTeX, fontdef.sau, contributed by knuutila@cs.utu.fi. You can get the original Cyrillic files (except I renamed them for consistency, as Alex suggested) by themselves in pub/tex/scyrillic.tar.Z. For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the same TFM files as Knuth's sources. So it is ok to call the output from these `cm...'. Besides the Computer Modern and the Glonti/Samarin Cyrillic, the distribution also includes Sauter parameter files for the LaTeX symbol fonts, contributed by Friedrich Haubensak. The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for dvips which take advantage of these fonts. You can get LaTeX from archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]:TEX/TEX3/latex, and dvips from labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*. (Alternatively, you can get a version of dvips I have modified to use exactly the same font searching scheme as TeX, the GNU font utilities, and (my modified) xdvi >From ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/dvips.tar.Z.) Let me know if you have questions or suggestions. karl@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jul 92 12:32:52 -0700 From: Carlos "A." Felippa Subject: robust double-column format Keywords: TeX, two columns I would be interested in finding a set of reliable two-column macros operating at the plain.tex level. I need to use this format occasionally to produce camera-ready mats for professional societies such as AIAA. I have been using the ones provided in the TeXbook, with some modifications published in Tugboat years ago. These macros, however, are very flaky as regards floating insertions (e.g. Figures, footnotes) requiring lots of manual "cutting and pasting" to get over problems. Is there a reliable plaindoublecolumn.tex anywhere? Thanks, Carlos A. Felippa Dept of Aerospace Engrg Sci University of Colorado at Boulder carlos@titan.colorado.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jul 92 15:23:10 +0000 From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk Subject: Adobe's Carousel Keywords: Carousel, PostScript I recently attended an Adobe presentation about a technology code-named Carousel. Here are some impressions: 1. There will be a 1-1 mapping between Carousel and much of PostScript (but the stack mechanism would be omitted and there would be a structured order). 2. Carousel is likely to be more compact than PostScript (but still ASCII and human-readable). Hence Carousel will be better for e-mailing around. 3. Carousel will be thought of as a file format (whereas PostScript is a programing language). Adobe are liaising with software houses with a view to end-users being able to get output from software "as Carousel" (as an alternative to, say, as PostScript or HP-PCL). 4. The format has been defined with a view to shipping documents around from platform to platform and still being able to do things like magnify chunks without loss of resolution. (It struck me that this may be intended to do what "screen preview" in PostScript does, see Appendix H of the Reference Manual, but to do it better.) 5. It is aimed at the "readers" market. Readers might see one page full-size, with minatures of adjacent pages. They might click on a minature to get it full-size. If a page says "continued on page N", they could click on the "continued ... " to get the continuation. Indexing information would be built into the file. 6. A Carousel file would hold font metrics for the fonts it needs. Hence, if it arrives somewhere that doesn't have the fonts it really needs, it will at least be able (by using "Multiple Master Fonts") to substitute fonts that occupy the same space (line-lengths, line-breaks, etc.) even if they don't look quite right close to. 7. Adobe see Carousel as replacing a proportion of photocopying (since people could browse at their workstation) and some physical transport of documents (since they could go electronically). 8. Typesetting software would still produce output as PostScript. We would still buy PostScript printers. 9. The format will be published. Is this something that DVI driver people need to keep an eye on? Might we eventually want dvi-to-carousel software, perhaps? David Rhead ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Jul 92 23:11:49 -0500 From: cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca (Christina Thiele) Subject: Further on Japanese and TeX... Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, Japanese, languages In a recent issue of TeXhax, a query was raised regarding TeX and Japanese. Since there were already two answers... I figure I'll do the honours and post the third... The current issue of _TeX and TUG NEWS_, a.k.a. TTN, contains a feature article ``Update on TeX in Japan'' by Harumi Fujiuru, which includes a list of recent publications on TeX in Japanese. As well, we've included a bibliography of articles which have appeared in TUGboat (as Malcolm pointed out) -- volume and page numbers and titles and all... So if you want more information, look for TTN to arrive in 3-4 weeks' time. Christina Thiele Editor, TTN ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jul 92 09:35:00 +0000 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: New version of supertabular (3.6g) Keywords: LaTeX, macros, tables Hi, I'm happy to announce a new version of the LaTeX option supertabular. It is available from LISTSERV@HEARN. I have also transferred it to the incoming directory of the stuttgart archive, so I expect that it will show up ion the right directory there soon. Ths version has a slight modification that was necessary to make supertabular work together with array.sty by FMi. So, if you have a need o combine the two I advise you to upgrade. The new version is version 3.6g, dated july 3rd, 1992. Regards, Johannes Braams PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : J.L.Braams@research.ptt.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 (was : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Jul 92 16:40:48 +0000 From: Peter Breitenlohner Subject: announcing TeX--XeT.change Keywords: TeX, XeT, TeX--XeT, mixed direction typesetting, changefile - ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Recently I have finished tex--xet.change, a system-independent web change file for TeX 3.141 for mixed direction typesetting. There are two files: tex--xet.change and tex--xet.doc I would like to thank all those who have helped in beta testing. Here an ectract from tex--xet.doc: TeX--XeT contains the code necessary for mixed left-to-right and right-to-left typesetting. This code is inspired by but different from TeX-XeT as presented by Donald E. Knuth and Pierre MacKay in TUGboat 8, 14--25, 1987. In order to avoid confusion with TeX-XeT the present implementation of mixed direction typesetting is called TeX--XeT. It differs from TeX-XeT in several important aspects: (1) Right-to-left text is reversed explicitely by the ship-out routine and is written to a normal DVI file without any begin-reflect or end-reflect commands; (2) TeX--XeT produces exactly the same line breaks as TeX when applied to pure left-to-right text, in fact TeX--XeT passes the TRIP test with very few and well understood modifications; (3) therefore TeX--XeT is designed to be used instead of and not in addition to TeX and consequently the pool file name is not changed; (4) as an enhancement over TeX-XeT right-to-left text interrupted by a displayed equation is automatically resumed after that equation. In fact we are using the VM/CMS version of TeX--XeT here in Munich instead of TeX for quite some time (not for mixed direction texts) with no problems and there are already (or will be in the near future) other TeX--XeT implementations. As far as I know the two files are availble at present via anonymous ftp from ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) in the directory /soft/tex/tex-sources/tex--xet from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the directory [FILESERV.TEX--XET] >From the SHSU fileserver To retrive the package of 2 files, include the command: SENDME TEX--XET in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). >From a SPAN archive (if I only knew what that is) The files are stored in, and can be copied from, 39003::$1$dia1:[tex.tex_source.tex--xet] Peter Breitenlohner ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 10:46:00 +0000 From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: Yet another new version of supertabular Keywords: LaTeX, macros, tables Hi, Michiel Goossens pointed out that supertabular was still not fully compatible with array.sty. It now is. Again it is available from LISTSERV@HEARN (TEX-NL FILELIST) and Stuttgart (soon, I put it in soft/tex/incoming). Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Johannes Braams ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 11:22:21 -0800 From: ted@lucid.com (Ted Gilchrist) Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V92 #013 Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, changebars Can anybody out there point me to TeX or LaTeX code that implements change bars? (those bars to the left of a paragraph that are usually used to indicate that the material to the right has changed). Thanks, Ted Gilchrist ted@lucid.com Ted Gilchrist Manager, Lisp Documentation 415/329-8400 x5557 Lucid, Inc. Telex 3791739 LUCID 707 Laurel Street Fax 415/329-8480 Menlo Park, CA 94025 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 15:03:29 -0500 From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: dvipsk 5.490o available Keywords: DVI, drivers, PostScript I have released version 5.490k of dvipsk, my modified version of Tom Rokicki's dvips. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/dvipsk.tar.Z The major modification is to use the same path searching algorithms as Unix TeX (i.e., web2c), the GNU font utilities, and my modified xdvi. In addition, the configuration process is (more or less) automatic, in the GNU style. The Makefile uses the standard variable names and targets in GNU makefiles. Finally, the documentation is included in the GNU texinfo format (thanks to zoo@cygnus.com for providing it). karl@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 15:03:47 -0500 From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: xdvik 0.10 available Keywords: DVI, preview, X I have released version 0.10 of xdvik, my modified version of Paul Vojta's xdvi. It is available by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/xdvik.tar.Z The major modification is to use the same path searching algorithms as Unix TeX (i.e., web2c), the GNU font utilities, and my modified xdvi. In addition, the configuration process is (more or less) automatic, in the GNU style. The Makefile uses the standard variable names and targets in GNU makefiles. xdvik is based on patchlevel 11 of xdvi, i.e., the virtual support and MakeTeXPK support is not present. I haven't updated it because I personally don't need those features (I just generated bitmaps for the PostScript fonts in the dvips encoding in the first place), and don't have extra time to think about such things. karl@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Jul 92 17:02:38 -0500 From: karney@theory.pppl.gov (Charles Karney) Subject: Problem with times.sty Keywords: LaTeX, PostScript, fonts I'm using times.sty (distributed with Tomas Rokicki's dvips) to give me access to PostScript fonts. There is some problem where the fonts don't get properly loaded until the font is used at grouping level 0. For example, my latex file reads \documentstyle[times]{article} \begin{document} (1) ${\sf M}$; \sf\rm (2) $\sf M$. \end{document} The first M uses font tensf (the Computer Modern version), while the second one uses psf10. The version of psfonts.sty that times.sty uses start with the comment: % psfonts.sty - re-work of lfonts.tex to allow postscript fonts % to replace cmr fonts. Original by LA Carr. Hacked by Van % Jacobson. % $Header: psfonts.sty,v 1.2 88/01/23 17:52:49 van Exp $ A work-around is the put \sf\rm immediately after \begin{document}. Is there a more elegant fix? Thanks. Charles Karney Plasma Physics Laboratory E-mail: Karney@Princeton.EDU Princeton University Phone: +1 609 243 2607 Princeton, NJ 08543-0451 FAX: +1 609 243 2662 ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% To subscribe, unsubscribe: %%% On BITNET: %%% send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% On Internet: %%% send a similar one line mail message to TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% On JANET: %%% send a similar one line mail message to TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp from tex.ac.uk %%% in [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% where YY = last two digits of year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 14] ***************************************** 24-Jul-1992 17:06:02-GMT,30661;000000000001 Return-Path: <@directory.nottingham.ac.uk:TeXhax-request@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by math.utah.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1-utah-csc-server) id AA29232; Fri, 24 Jul 92 11:05:54 MDT Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Via: uk.ac.nottingham.directory; Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:54:19 +0100 Received: from mips.nott.ac.uk by dir.nott.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <19811-0@dir.nott.ac.uk>; Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:47:31 +0100 From: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk To: TeXhax Distribution:;@directory.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #015 Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: TeXhax-Request@tex.ac.uk Distribution: world Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:47:35 +0100 Message-Id: <22035.711992855@mips.nott.ac.uk> Original-Sender: cczdao@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk Sender: TeXhax-request@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk TeXhax Digest Friday, 24 Jul 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 015 Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott % The TeXhax Digest is brought to you as a service of the TeX Users Group % % and UK TeX Users Group in cooperation with the UK TeX Archive group % Today's Topics: RE: robust double-column format Harvard style bibliography and stanford university thesis style BibTeX style file for ASME publications filenames for fonts version 1.2 available Re: `times.sty' (TeXhax Digest V92 #014) Change bars in LaTeX BiBTeX style file for ASME papers - follow up TeX hackers request Re: TeX hackers request Math in Postscript fonts/dvips Weave formatting Interruption and rearrangement of service Announcing LITPROG -- Literate Programming Discussion List PPHLP (VMS Documentation Tool) on FILESERV/Niord Cassette label macros - CASS.TEX ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 18:32:27 +0000 From: CHAA006@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax Subject: RE: robust double-column format Keywords: TeX, macros, double columns Carlos --- >I would be interested in finding a set of reliable two-column >macros operating at the plain.tex level. I need to use this format >occasionally to produce camera-ready mats for professional >societies such as AIAA. I have been using the ones provided >in the TeXbook, with some modifications published in Tugboat >years ago. These macros, however, are very flaky as regards >floating insertions (e.g. Figures, footnotes) requiring lots of >manual "cutting and pasting" to get over problems. Is there a >reliable plaindoublecolumn.tex anywhere? The macros which I developed for setting Baskerville (``The Annals of the U.K. TeX Users' Group'') may serve: they allow double-width top inserts and single-width bottom inserts, the latter being tied to the columns from which they are referenced. If you would feel they may be suitable, and would like a copy, please let me know. Philip Taylor, RHBNC. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 10:13:14 +0000 From: dg504@uk.ac.city Subject: Harvard style bibliography and stanford university thesis style Keywords: BibTeX, Harvard styles, LaTeX, SUthesis style Harvard family of bibliographic styles This is a file from Peter Williams . I have used kluwer.bst in my Ph. D. thesis. I would like to obtain [] instead of () in citations. Also can I get a citation index (i.e. the page numbers of each citation should appear against its bibiliography entry)? Does anybody know of a solution ? suthesis.sty in EMTEX I have used the Stanford university Ph.D. thesis style which for some reason produces section, subsection and subsubsubsection titles in ascending order of the size of letters. Does anybody know how to get a descending order in size? Thanks, S R Ala Dept. of Elect. Engg. City University, London. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jul 92 11:08:00 -0500 From: "C. NATARAJ" Subject: BibTeX style file for ASME publications Keywords: BibTeX, style I am looking for a bibliography style for BibTeX that will reference using author-name and year, but will list the papers in alphabetical order. This is the <> style in ASME papers although it doesn't appeal to me personally. For example, in the text, the reference would be as follows: Lamport (1986) and Knuth (1984). At the end of the text, the list of references would read: D. E. Knuth, 1984, {\em The \TeX Book}, ... L. Lamport, 1986, {\em {\LaTeX}: A Document Preparation System}, ... I did poke around some of the ftp sites, but couldn't find the right one. I would appreciate any help. Thank you. Nat C. Nataraj Department of Mechanical Engineering tel: (215) 645-4994 Villanova University internet: nataraj@ucis.vill.edu Villanova, PA 19085, USA bitnet: nataraj@vuvaxcom ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 14:24:17 -0500 From: karl@edu.umb.cs.claude (Karl Berry) Subject: filenames for fonts version 1.2 available Keywords: fonts, naming I have released version 1.2 of ``my'' font naming scheme for TeX fonts. You can get it by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/fontname/fontname.texi I will also send it to you by email if you cannot ftp. It is in Texinfo format, so you will need the TeX macros in the file texinfo.tex (available with most GNU programs) to be able to print it; that same directory also has a texinfo.tex. The rest of that directory contains files showing the naming scheme applied to Adobe, Computer Modern, and AMS fonts. The changes since version 1.1 are primarily just additional fonts. I also discuss some of Frank Mittelbach's criticisms of the naming scheme in TUGboat 13(1). This is an update of my article in TUGboat 11(4). The main changes are a much longer list of typeface families, a somewhat longer exposition of the problems with the naming scheme, and a proposal for naming scheme for arbitrarily-long names (and a proposed corresponding slight enhancement to TeX, approved by Professor Knuth). I am happy to get additions, criticisms, or other comments. karl@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jul 92 08:46:42 +0000 From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster Subject: Re: `times.sty' (TeXhax Digest V92 #014) Keywords: LaTeX, PostScript, fonts > Subject: Problem with times.sty > I'm using times.sty (distributed with Tomas Rokicki's dvips) to give me > access to PostScript fonts. There is some problem where the fonts don't > get properly loaded until the font is used at grouping level 0. For > example, my latex file reads > > \documentstyle[times]{article} > \begin{document} > (1) ${\sf M}$; > \sf\rm > (2) $\sf M$. > \end{document} > > The first M uses font tensf (the Computer Modern version), while the second > one uses psf10. > > A work-around is the put \sf\rm immediately after \begin{document}. Is > there a more elegant fix? Thanks. yes, use the New Font Selection Scheme, IMHO. that is just what its good at. a set of suitable setups for PostScript fonts is contained in my PSNFSS (tex.ac.uk:[tex-archive.latex.styles.fontsel.soton]). but you need the main NFSS as well as that sebastian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 09:34:19 -0500 From: rocky@com.ibm.watson (Rocky Bernstein) Subject: Change bars in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, changebars Around the beginning of the year, I modified Joachim Schrod's macros for producing change bars in Plain TeX so that it would work in LaTeX as well as Plain TeX. Joachim Schrod's file, chbars, has a FSF copyleft, and therefore it can be freely distributed. In making the modifications, I was guided by the code in changebars.sty written by Michael Fine and Johannes Bramms. Let me digress a bit and describe a little about the way each method works. changebars.sty adds \specials into the DVI file. The DVI driver (via commands to the output device) positions and adds the rules. The code in the style file then, adds device-dependent code which marks the places where the change bars are to start and end. Also it issues the device- or DVI-driver-dependent commands to cause the lines to be drawn. Joachim Schrod's code, however is device independent, and does its work by modifying TeX's \output routine. The rules are in the DVI file as rule commands. The disadvantage of using \special to make the change bars is that the code is device dependent. To the best of my knowledge, changebars.sty supports only DVI2LN3- or DVItoPS-style specials. I tried a little bit have it work with dvips, but was not successful. An advantage of using \special is that one can take advantage of additional features of the output device; for example adding color to the change bars. In fact, changebars.sty does allow one to set the grey scale of the change bar for when the DVI driver is DVItoPS. The disadvantage of modifying TeX's \output routine is that it causes TeX to format pages slightly poorer over areas which have been changed. This is because here it has to bind glue settings of vertical boxes so that it can know where to position the beginning of each change bar (unless it is a continuation from the previous page) and in order to know how long to make the change bar (unless the bar spans across page). But as Joachim Schrod points out, most of the time the proportion of changed regions to non-changed regions is small so the degradation in formatting is not great. Also, hacking a TeX's asynchronous \output routine is somewhat complex. As a result, the code in chbars.sty is much more complicated than that in changebars.sty. Fortunately, Joachim Schrod's code is written in a Web-like style, can be ``weave''d into something that is nicely LaTeXed. It is, I think, very readable. The last disadvantage is that chbars can't be started in TeX's ``restricted inner'' modes. But then neither can say LaTeX's \marginpar command (which by the way, is somewhat crude way one can also mark changes in LaTeX.) (Before leaving the technical digression, I would like to point out that a couple of ideas on \output hacking in chbars come from Thomas J. Reid and his excellent article a while back in TUGBoat.) The modifications I made were to add some the features of changebars.sty to chbars.tex. Specifically, I added the ability to specify change bar widths, put the change bars either on the right or left margin, specify the distance from the margin to the change bar, and chain to on top of a pre-existing modified output routine. (If my memory serves me correctly, it was this last change that made it possible to use in both Plain TeX and LaTeX.) However one thing that I never got around to adding, was nested change bars. (This is in changebars.sty.) Undoubtedly, chbars.sty will not work with the Frank Mittelbach's multi-column style (multicol.sty), since that breaks out the columns at the end, while chbars.sty wants position bindings early. Sigh! Also, I have not tried this code on the newest version of LaTeX. Anyway, when I finished the current level of hacking I did send the code back to Joachim Schrod for comments. I don't recall receiving any. If there is a public TeX repository that wants the changes I made, I'll send them along. Regards, R. Bernstein ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jul 92 12:03:00 -0500 From: "C. NATARAJ" Subject: BiBTeX style file for ASME papers - follow up Keywords: BibTeX, style Since I sent the message that I was looking for a bibliography style for BibTeX for ASME publications I discovered an astronomy style package that does most of the things I need (I hope to be able to modify it to suit my exact needs). If I do succeed, I will be happy to make it available for anybody who is interested. Thanks. Nat C. Nataraj Department of Mechanical Engineering tel: (215) 645-4994 Villanova University internet: nataraj@ucis.vill.edu Villanova, PA 19085, USA bitnet: nataraj@vuvaxcom ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 14:15:10 -0500 From: mikhail@edu.uncc.unccvax (Mikhail Mogilevskii) Subject: TeX hackers request Keywords: TeX, implementation, Unix, AIX We want to install TeX 3.0, Metafont 2.0 software in our university on the RISK/SYS6000 computer with AIX 3.0 operation system. Answer, please, how to get this product, how to install it on our computer, and what's the cost of it? Sincerely yours, Dr. Michael Mogilevsky, Computer Science Dept. UNCC. Charlotte, NC 28270 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:41:41 +0000 From: David Osborne Subject: Re: TeX hackers request Keywords: TeX, implementation, Unix, AIX In message <9207201815.AA12013@unccvax> of 20 Jul 92 14:15:10 EDT, Mikhail Mogilevskii said: > We want to install TeX 3.0, Metafont 2.0 software in our > university on the RISK/SYS6000 computer with AIX 3.0 > operation system. >From the TeX Frequently Asked Questions list... Where do I get TeX/LaTeX for machine Y running Q? Unix - The Unix TeX distribution is available for anonymous ftp from byron.u.washington.edu (128.95.48.32) in the directory ./pub/unixtex. It is large, so please be sure to observe proper ftp etiquette when getting it. It is also available through the University of Washington, for a small fee. Contact: Director Northwest Computing Support Center Thomson Hall, Mail Stop DR-10 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (USA) (206)543-6259 or send electronic mail to Elizabeth Tachikawa at elisabet@max.u.washington.edu (note the ``s''). The fee charged for getting the TeX distribution through the University of Washington helps fund the further development of Unix TeX, so it's a good idea to order it this way. This distribution compiles under Ultrix. Executables for the 386/ix are available via anonymous ftp from tik.vtt.fi (130.188.52.2) in ./pub/tex/bin-386ix and from math.berkeley.edu (128.32.183.94) in ./pub/tex386ix.tar.Z. AIX - TeX for the IBM RS6000 running AIX can be found on rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) in ./soft/tex/machines/unix/aix3.1. - --David Osborne (TeXhax Digest moderator) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10:49:17 +0700 From: ron@earn.TAURUS, ron@earn.TAURUS Subject: Math in Postscript fonts/dvips Keywords: Math fonts, PostScript I'm using palatino.sty (distributed with Tomas Rokicki's dvips) to give me access to PostScript fonts. The problem is, it doesn't have a definition for math fonts, so things like $\Delta$ do not show on the page at all. I think in previous versions of dvips there was a palatino+m.sty file, for this purpose exactly; how does one do it today? Thanks, Ron Vinocourt - Computer Lab ron@math.tau.ac.il Tel Aviv University - School of Math & Computer Science Tel : +972 3 6408 823 Fax : +972 3 642 2378 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 09:11:47 -0500 From: ras@com.dec.zko.skanda (Bob Surtees) Subject: Weave formatting Keywords: Formatting, Weave I have used web several times and would like to produce the output similar to that used in the Knuth books. In other words I would like the get the cross-references on the bottom of the right-hand pages. Is the macro to do this available? Where can I get it? Thanks, Bob Surtees Bob Surtees (ras@skanda.zko.dec.com) | Home = 42.51'N 71.25'W Digital Equipment Corporation, ZKO2/2-M28 | UUCP (...!decvax!skippy!ras) Nashua, NH 03062-2698 | ENET (SKANDA::ras) X-Face: Oz,gghNyi6+'Tiz!,!(vO-}=*jjwQCtHgPK^_z=t/L"oZQf>pTBnhmy5(IZS$ZwG.>^8oA? e8VHAJX}j[Yz!GMNRu=v#1!q0/)\#FxbET2lFcmw_Ks"ukaR*g];-(EZEU|o Subject: Announcing LITPROG -- Literate Programming Discussion List Keywords: Announcement, mailing list, literate programming Following some comments which recently appeared on INFO-TeX and comp.text.tex regarding an interest in a discussion list for WEB topics specifically and Literate Programming in general, I have created another discussion list to emanate from SHSU -- LITPROG. After visiting with those involved with the comments, it was decided to define this as a broad spectrum literate programming list, which certainly includes WEB and its offshoots. Attached is a brief description file of this list for your reference. While I have set this up so that you do not have to be a subscriber to post, your subscription and participation are welcomed. - --George =========================================================================== LITPROG is a network list dealing with topics related to Literate Programming. This includes general issues of style and philosophy, such as "what is literate programming?" or "is literate programming compatible with writing portable programs?", as well as specific issues relating to particular literate programming systems, such as "is it possible to use CWEB with ANSI C?" Novices are welcome; it is intended that this group should be a place where newcomers can be welcomed into the fold as well as a place where seasoned literate programmers can discuss fine points of technique. To subscribe to LITPROG, include the command: SUBSCRIBE LITPROG "Your Real Name in Quotes" in the body of a mail message to LISTSERV@SHSU.BITNET (LISTSERV@SHSU.edu). Please note that this is a completely mail oriented version of LISTSERV; therefore, interactive messages to it will fail -- you must use mail. The archives of LITPROG are available via electronic mail from FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu) and via anonymous ftp from Niord.SHSU.edu [192.92.115.8] in the directory [FILESERV.LITPROG]. The monthly notebook of postings are stored as LITPROG.yyyy-mm, where "yyyy" represents the year and "mm" represents the numeric equivalent of the month of the post. For example, LITPROG.1992-07 would include all posts to LITPROG during July, 1992. To retrieve this notebook via e-mail, include: SENDME LITPROG.1992-07 in the body of a mail message to FILESERV (*not* LISTSERV). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 16:12:46 -0600 From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: PPHLP (VMS Documentation Tool) on FILESERV/Niord Keywords: Documentation, VMS Norman Gray kindly forwarded me a new package which assists in creating a single file which may be used both for hard-copy user documentation, as well as input for the VAX Librarian utility. Attached is thee description file for this package. If you need information on FILESERV, include the command HELP in the body of a mail message to it; the command SENDME FILELIST will return a brief annotated listing of packages available. Regards and thanks to Norman for his contribution, George PPHLP ----- The PPHLP package includes the files Norman Gray's PPHLP utility system for producing both VMS help libraries and printed documentation from a single file, which has LaTeX commands embedded within it. This is achieved by redefining certain LaTeX commands to begin with "!" rather than "\", as well as by providing a few environments specific to the package. It is possible to directly specify LaTeX printout variants for certain names (such as "\LaTeX") while providing ASCII support for the associated word (in this case, "LaTeX") within the created VAX Librarian help file. Additionally, it is possible to specify in the input file words to be highlighted in the VAX Librarian help files, as well as different typefaces for the same words in the LaTeX printed output. In general, a single document may serve as both system-level help, as well as printed user documentation -- a very nice consistency extension for VMS product developers, as well as system managers. Although it is fairly specific to VMS, the format of help library modules is simple, and the system could probably be translated fairly easily to take advantage of another format with a similar heirarchical structure. The system is not dissimilar to the GNU texinfo format. As this is a package of primary interest to VMS sites, the package has been bundled into a two-part VMS_SHARE distribution. To retrieve the package, include: SENDME PPHLP in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). The returned VMS_SHARE archive includes: PPHLP.README A README file, with examples. PPHLP.TEX The file which is actually LaTeXed, by ... PPHLP.COM DCL com-file, which acts as a `front-end' to the package. PPHLP.HELP A help file. It can either be turned into an .hlp file by processing it with helpproc (below), or into a .dvi file by invoking the com-file. HELPPROC.PAS A preprocessor, which strips out some constructions. [HELPPROC.PAS was written by Krish Singh] PPROC.CLD A .cld file for the preprocessor. HLP.LSE An LSE file which defines the language `hlp', and adds adjustments designed for the `folding editor' capacities of LSE, by allowing elision of the help text as you write it. PHUTGUIDE.STY The documentstyle in which the help documents PHUTGUIDE11.STY are set. A ZIP archive file of this package is available for anonymous ftp retrieval >From Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) as [FILESERV.PPHLP]PPHLP-V1_0.ZIP; the individual sources, as well as the HELPPROC.EXE (linked under VMS 5.5) and HELPPROC.OBJ are available in [FILESERV.PPHLP.SOURCES] on Niord. Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes) File Blocks - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PPHLP.1OF2 79 Concatenate to PPHLP.SHAR; @PPHLP.SHAR will unbundle PPHLP.2OF2 70 to PPHLP.README, PPHLP.TEX, PPHLP.COM, PPHLP.HELP, HELPPROC.PAS, PPROC.CLD, HLP.LSE, PHUTGUIDE.STY, PHUTGUIDE11.STY Approximate total blocks in full PPHLP package = 149 ------------------------------ Date: 22 Jul 92 14:31:00 -0500 From: "BESSON, MORGAN" Subject: Cassette label macros - CASS.TEX Keywords: TeX, macros, cassette labels Here is a file of macros, CASS.TEX, for producing nicely formatted labels for audio cassette boxes. The input consists of lines of text for the cassette title, side A, and side B. The four macros to accomplish this are \title, \sideA, \sideB, and \finish. The input file has the following form: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \input cass \title 0-3 lines \sideA lines (songs) \sideB lines (songs) \finish \end - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All four macro references should be in the file, even if some of the text is blank. The macros use \obeylines, so carriage returns start new lines. Also, there are two internal macros: 1. The symbol > is basically \hfill. Use this to push the remainder of the line flush right (use for song times, for example.) 2. The symbol | is basically \hfill\break and then indent the next line. Use this to break lines manually, which is the preferred method here. I think that for long song titles manual breaks are more logical. This also avoids attempts to hyphenate, and additionally it indents the next line to show it is part of the line above. The defined fonts are \rm,\bf,\it, and \sl. These are cm__9. The default font for the title is \bf and for the songs is \rm. The output has four small vrules near the four corners of the label to aid in cutting it out of the paper with a paper cutter: 1. Make a horizontal cut through the top pair, and a cut through the bottom pair. 2. Turn the paper 90 degrees, and line up the two left vrules (what's left of them after the first cut) on the cutting edge and cut. Do the same for the two right vrules. 3. Turn the paper 90 degrees, and line up the top hrule with the cutting edge and cut, likewise for the bottom hrule. Actually, I cut just behind these hrules so they remain on the label. It looks nice. 4. Finally, fold along each of the two remaining hrules. Place it in the cassette box and use the cardboard label that came with the cassette to keep it in place. Below are CASS.TEX and two sample files. Regards, Morgan Besson Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania USA besson@ucis.vill.edu % ------------------------- begin CASS.TEX ------------------------- % Macros to make cassette box labels % - Morgan Besson 7/92 (besson@ucis.vill.edu) \hsize=286pt \font\rm=cmr9 \font\bf=cmbx9 \font\it=cmti9 \font\sl=cmsl9 \nopagenumbers \parskip=0pt \parindent=0pt \baselineskip=9.5pt \let\fullhsize=\hsize \catcode`|=\active \def|{\par\indent\kern12pt} \catcode`>=\active \def>{\hfill} \newbox\titlebox \newbox\leftbox \newbox\rightbox \def\title{\begingroup\obeylines \global\setbox\titlebox=\vbox\bgroup \hsize=.97\fullhsize \bf} \def\sideA{\egroup\endgroup \begingroup\obeylines \global\setbox\leftbox=\vtop\bgroup \hsize=.47\fullhsize \centerline{\bf Side A}\smallskip} \def\sideB{\egroup\endgroup\begingroup\obeylines \global\setbox\rightbox=\vtop\bgroup \hsize=.47\fullhsize \centerline{\bf Side B}\smallskip} \def\finish{\egroup\endgroup \line{\vrule\strut\hfill\vrule} \bigskip \hrule\vbox to48pt{\vfill\line{\hfil\copy\titlebox\hfil}\vfill} \hrule\vbox to36pt{\vfill\line{\hfil\box\titlebox\hfil}\vfill}\hrule \smallskip \vbox to184truept{ \line{\hfil\box\leftbox\hfil\vrule\hfil\box\rightbox\hfil} \vfill\hrule} \bigskip \line{\vrule\strut\hfill\vrule} \vfill\eject} \rm %------------------------- end CASS.TEX ------------------------- %------------------------- begin SAMPLE1.TEX ------------------------- \input cass \title A: Mighty Like a Rose - Elvis Costello B: Ing\'enue - k. d. lang \sideA The Other Side of Summer > 3:56 Hurry Down Doomsday (The | Bugs Are Taking Over) > 4:05 How To Be Dumb > 5:12 All Grown Up > 4:17 Invasion Hit Parade > 5:33 Harpies Bizarre > 3:44 After the Fall > 4:38 Georgie and Her Rival > 3:38 So Like Candy > 4:36 Interlude: Couldn't Call It | Unexpected No.~2 > 0:22 Playboy To a Man > 3:17 Sweet Pear > 3:36 Broken > 3:36 Couldn't Call It | Unexpected No.~4 > 3:49 \sideB Save Me > 4:33 The Mind of Love > 3:48 Miss Chatelaine > 3:48 Wash Me Clean > 3:17 So It Shall Be > 4:29 Still Thrives This Love > 3:33 Season of Hollow Soul > 4:56 Outside Myself > 4:57 Tears of Love's Recall > 3:48 Constant Craving > 4:38 \finish \end %------------------------- end SAMPLE1.TEX ------------------------- %------------------------- begin SAMPLE2.TEX ------------------------- \input cass \title J. S. Bach, Cello Suites Nos.~2, 3, \&5 - Maurice Gendron \sideA {\it No.~2 in D Minor, BWV 1008} \smallskip Pr\'elude > 3:33 Allemande > 3:36 Courante > 2:00 Sarabande > 4:37 Menuets I--II > 2:58 Gigue > 2:47 \bigskip {\it No.~3 in C Major, BWV 1009} \smallskip Pr\'elude > 3:36 Allemande > 3:33 Courante > 3:12 Sarabande > 4:21 Bourr\'ees I--II > 3:09 Gigue > 3:24 \sideB {\it No.~5 in C Minor, BWV 1011} \smallskip Pr\'elude > 5:45 Allemande > 5:22 Courante > 2:27 Sarabande > 3:25 Gavottes I--II > 4:46 Gigue > 2:37 \finish \end %------------------------- end SAMPLE2.TEX ------------------------- ------------------------------ %%% Further information about the TeXhax Digest, the TeX %%% Users Group, and the latest software versions is available %%% in every tenth issue of the TeXhax Digest. %%% %%% To subscribe, unsubscribe: %%% On BITNET: %%% send a one-line mail message to LISTSERV@xxx %%% SUBSCRIBE TEX-L % to subscribe %%% or UNSUBSCRIBE TEX-L %%% On Internet: %%% send a similar one line mail message to TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk %%% On JANET: %%% send a similar one line mail message to TeXhax-request@uk.ac.tex %%% %%% All submissions to: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk %%% %%% Back issues available for anonymous ftp from tex.ac.uk %%% in [.tex.digests.texhax.YY]texhax.NN %%% where YY = last two digits of year %%% NN = issue number %%% %%%\bye End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 92 Issue 15] *****************************************