TeXhax Digest Tuesday, December 2, 1986 Volume 86 : Issue 10 TEXHAX10.861202 Editor: Malcolm Brown Today's Topics: Nefarious Notes Re: Issue #8 Blackboard Bold (Openface) fonts. Logic diagrams LaTeX query Hyphenation rules Re: typesetting previewers for Sun workstations A short comparison of TeX and troff for comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- % % Issue #9 of TeXhax went out last week; the BITNET relay, however, was % going somewhat berserk at the time. Judging by the lengthy list of % failed mail, I suspect that anyone on the distribution list whose % address contained @WISCVM did NOT get a copy of issue 9. Sigh. % % Accordingly, within the next day or so I will send out a copy of issue % 9 to those on BITNET. If you did get the first copy, please forgive % the repetition. If you haven't gotten issue 9 by the end of the week, % send a note to texhax-request@score.stanford.edu and I'll mail you a % copy. Onward.... % Malcolm --------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 86 15:17:27 pst >From: lamport@decwrl.DEC.COM (Leslie Lamport) To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Issue #8 In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon 24 Nov 86 12:58:35-PST. I noticed that Issue #8, made with your new macros, has lines that are 80 characters wide. Emacs has the unfortunate property that (at least with the default settings) it displays properly only lines that are at most 79 characters wide. An 80-character line is displayed as two lines, the first ending with a `\' and the second containing the 80th character. Please adjust your macros to a line width of 79 characters. Leslie Lamport ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Nov 86 18:29 EST >From: MAILER%FSU.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA Subject: Blackboard Bold (Openface) fonts. To: TEXHAX@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU.ARPA >From: SCRI::ADK "Tony Kennedy" 24-NOV-1986 18:26 To: mailer!,ADK Subj: Blackboard Bold (Openface) fonts. In the TeXbook "blackboard bold" fonts are mentioned, but I cannot find them anywhere (the example of a "blackboard bold" R in the index is in fact constructed most dupliciously). Does anybody have a blackboard bold font? A metafont source program designed to match the Computer Modern fonts would be nicest, but failing that a set of PXL and TFM files would suffice. [To the moderator: my network address is ADK%FSU.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA, contrary to whatever the mail header might claim!] CC: TEXHAX@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU.ARPA TEXHAX%SCORE.STANFORD.EDU@WISCVM.ARPA ADK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Nov 86 12:39:59 est >From: Art Werschulz To: texhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: Logic diagrams Does anybody have a macro package for drawing logic-gates (and other circuit elements) within TeX or LaTeX? Thanks. Art Werschulz ARPAnet: agw%lexington@columbia.edu USEnet: ... {seismo, topaz}!columbia!lexington!agw BITnet: columbia.edu!lexington!agw@wiscvm CCNET: werschulz@CUCS20 ATTnet: Columbia University (212) 280-3610 280-2736 Fordham University (212) 841-5323 841-5396 ------------------------------ To: TeXhax@score.stanford.edu Subject: LaTeX query Date: Tue, 25 Nov 86 14:42:37 GMT >From: John Pavel An easy one... Why does \begin{description} \item[Kernel Group] \begin{itemize} \item File attributes \item file name \item contents type \end{itemize} \item[Activity attributes] \begin{itemize} \item activity contents type \item current access request \item current location \item current processing mode \item current calling AE Title \item current Responding AE Title \end{itemize} \end{description} result in DESCR o File attributes o file name : : instead of DESCR o File attributes o file name : etc? Thanks for your replies, John Pavel Department of Trade and Industry The National Physical Laboratory Division of Information Technology and Computing Protocol Standards Group Queen's Road Teddington TW11 0LW Middlesex UK UUCP: jrp%nplpsg.uucp@mcvax.uucp jrp@psg.npl.co.uk ...mcvax!ukc!nplpsg!jrp ARPA: jrp%nplpsg.uucp@seismo.css.gov JANET: jrp%psg.npl.co.uk@uk.ac.ukc Telephone: +44.1.943.6035 Telex: 262344 NPL G TeleFax: +44.1.943.2155 Telegrams: Bushylab Teddington ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 86 09:16:39 cet To: TEXHAX@SU-SCORE.ARPA >From: DATBSH%NEUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU Subject: Hyphenation rules Concerning TeX hyphenation rules for other languages than English. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone knowing of hyphenation rules for one af the Skandinavian languages Danish, Norwegian or Swedish? How about French, German, Dutch? It might be an idea to compile a survey over this field and publish it in TUGBOAT. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Nov 86 20:49:03 cst >From: Mike Jipping To: bryan@SU-SIERRA.ARPA Subject: Re: typesetting previewers for Sun workstations Doug: I've been meaning to respond to your TeXHax request for TeX previewers for quite some time (it's been a month...). Here at Iowa, we have several Sun's ethernetted together. We run TeX on our Vax and, through a local program, are able to preview the DVI on a Sun before running it off on a laser printer. The program originated from some of the previewers on the TeX tape from Washington, but has undergone a bit of rewrite... It's got a nice window interface to Suntools (we run SunView 3.0) and allows fairly flexible viewing of the previewed document. If you're interested, let me know -- I'll send you a man page just so you can see if it's what you want. -- Mike ------------- Mike Jipping NET ADDRESS: jipping@cs.uiowa.edu Dept. of Comp. Sci. PHONE: (319) 353-5341 University of Iowa VOICE: Hey! ------------------------------ To: TeXhax@score.stanford.edu, Unix-TeX@ward.cs.washington.edu Subject: A short comparison of TeX and troff for comment Date: Sat, 29 Nov 86 18:34:23 GMT >From: John Pavel We are considering what sort of document preparation facilities we might provide in the Laboratory in the future. To this end I have knocked together a sheet comparing troff (& ditroff) to TeX (& LaTeX). Most of what is expressed therein are unsubstantiated personal impressions. For this reason I am sending out a copy of the document for comment in the hope that any misapprehensions and innaccuracies will be corrected by the more knowledgable. I will produce a revised copy of this document incorporating your comments and send it back out. I'm sorry about the inter-word spacing, but the dvitty program is not perfect. My thanks to Marshall Rose for supplying some of the extra macros that I used in producing the document. John Pavel Department of Trade and Industry The National Physical Laboratory Division of Information Technology and Computing Protocol Standards Group Queen's Road Teddington TW11 0LW Middlesex UK jrp@psg.npl.co.uk UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!nplpsg!jrp Europe jrp%nplpsg.uucp@mcvax.uucp N.A. jrp%nplpsg.uucp@seismo.uucp ARPA: jrp%nplpsg.uucp@seismo.css.gov jrp%nplpsg.uucp@cs.ucl.ac.uk JANET: jrp%psg.npl.co.uk@uk.ac.ukc Telephone: +44.1.943.6035 Telex: 262344 NPL G TeleFax: +44.1.943.2155 Telegrams: Bushylab Teddington % % John's document is too lengthy to distribute via this digest. You can % get a copy by FTPing the following file from score.stanford.edu: % TEXTROFF.TXT % Malcolm % ------------------------------ % % \bye % End of TeXhax Digest ************************** ------- -------