TeXhax Digest Sunday, September 30, 1990 Volume 90 : Issue 63 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: Chemical diagrams, TeX, graphic specials I haven't..Does anyone have something like this? Re: I haven't..Does anyone have something like this? \lefteqn inside eqnarray environment Rotated TeX fonts for 3800-3 Request for VMS HP LJ Driver Bug in TeX??? Strange things happening with entirely blank character Needed: psfig, VAX/VMS, DVIPS Announcing the 1990 DECUS TeX Collection Aston archive 00* listing files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 20:15:32 EDT From: INHB000 Subject: Chemical diagrams, TeX, graphic specials Keywords: Chemical diagrams, TeX, graphic specials Has anyone made up a macro package for doing chemical diagrams? Is there any program for PC compatibles that mixes TeX and graphic specials in the same was as can bve done on a Macintosh? Michael Barr inhb@mcgillb inhb@musicb.mcgill.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 13 Sep 90 18:27:00 EDT From: "DARREN STALDER" Subject: I haven't..Does anyone have something like this? Keywords: LaTeX, AmSTeX, style file From: GMUVAX::WINS%"" 13-SEP-1990 17:56:40.24 To: DSTALDER Hello, Quite awhile ago I heard about a LaTeX style file being developed that would give LaTeX some of the technical formatting capabilities of AMSTeX.... Can anyone there tell me where to obtain this style file (if it was ever completed)? thanks in advance, tom prusa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 16:24 PDT From: Don Hosek Subject: Re: I haven't..Does anyone have something like this? Keywords: LaTeX, AmSTeX, style file The AmSLaTeX package consists of a style option, amstex.sty, for LaTeX that provides AmSTeX's math abilities to LaTeX users and a couple of document styles for AMS publications. Installation of the package requires also installing the Mittelbach & Schoepf font selection software for LaTeX. These files are available from e-math.ams.com (primary source) and ymir.claremont.edu (secondary source for AmSLaTeX, primary for Mittelbach & Schoepf macros) via FTP. -dh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 13:11:14 EDT From: "Lisa Ungar" Subject: \lefteqn inside eqnarray environment Keywords: LaTeX, eqnarray environment, \lefteqn ****** I've thought about this for a few days, and I'm not convinced that what Lisa wants is possible within the LaTeX abstraction barrier (give me an \halign to \hsize, and...). Can anyone out there come up with a solution? Thanks. -Rhu ****** Dear LaTeX Helper, Perhaps you can clear up my confusion with the above command. On page 50 in LaTeX A Document Preparation System User's Guide & Reference Manual, it shows that \lefteqn is suppose move the equation from the center to the left margin on the page. If \lefteqn is not suppose to be able to do this please explain what it does do. I have enclosed a sample document here. \documentstyle[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \begin{eqnarray} \lefteqn{G(N)= \sqrt{2 \pi N} e^{N(\frac{1}{\beta_1}-1)} \frac{N^{m -1} \alpha_{1}^{N-m +1}}{(m - 1)!} (1-\alpha_1)^{m-1} \prod_{i=1}^{m}A_i (\frac{r_i}{\alpha_1})} \nonumber \\ & & \times \prod_{i=m+1}^{M} \frac{A_i (\frac{r_i}{\alpha_1})} {1-\frac{\alpha_i}{\alpha_1} } [1+O(N^{-1})] \label{eq:gt1} \end{eqnarray} \end{document} Thanks for help in advance, Lisa PS. I was able to move the equation an inch to the left using the FLEQN style option. Is there a way to just move the first line to the left margin of the page? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 12:58:43 GMT From: "T.Duttle" Subject: Rotated TeX fonts for 3800-3 Keywords: fonts, rotated, TeX, 300-3 We would like to print TeX stuff on our 3800-3, rotated 90 degrees to print on 8.5"h x 11"w paper, our standard form. We don't have any trouble printing using the unrotated TeX fonts, but are having trouble trying to create rotated fonts. Is anyone else doing this? How did you get it to work? Can we use FLSF to rotate the fonts? We are running PSF/VM R3.0 and TeX R1.93 (from Maria Code DP Services) on VM/XA SP 2.1. (We also run PSF/MVS, so any MVS solutions would also be of interest.) I am new to this list; my apologies if this has already been covered before. T. Duttle, NMSU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 15:19:50 PDT From: Subject: Request for VMS HP LJ Driver Keywords: dviware, HP DeskJet A message in TeXhax digest V90-58 made the following request: > >Does anybody know where I can get (for a VAX/VMS environment) a DVI to >Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II that can do either/both of > >1) Raster Graphics integration. > >2) Landscape Printing. > >I have been using Nelson Beebe's excellent DVIJEP, but I now need to do >both of the above and DVIJEP can't do these. > The T2/jet program from Northlake Software includes both of the features that are mentioned in this TeXhax request. Raster Graphics in HP PCL format are supported through the TeX \special command, and landscape printing is supported with the /landscape command line qualifier. T2/jet is one member of a family of TeX devices interfaces for VMS. The other members are T2/script, for PostScript printers, T2/ln03, for the ln03 printer, and T2/view, a TeX previewer for DECwindows. T2/jet has the following features: Fonts: -can use LaserJet built-in fonts and cartridge fonts -can use downloadable Soft Fonts converted to GF or PK format by XXtoXX -provides TFM files for LaserJet II fonts -includes same font set as TeX, with compiled fonts for LaserJet printers Graphics: -HP PCL graphics and illustrations may be included in document -rotates graphics to match page orientation on LaserJet II, LaserJet IID, and LaserJet 2000 Paper handling: -can select letter, legal, ledger, A4, #10 envelope, and executive paper sizes -uses automatic duplexing on LaserJet IID and LaserJet 2000 Hardware and software requirements: -supports LaserJet II, LaserJet IID, LaserJet 2000, LaserJet Plus, LaserJet 500 Plus -complex documents may require additional printer memory -VMS or MicroVMS 4.6 to current -1,500 disk blocks for software; 3,000 blocks on system disk during installation -16,000 disk blocks for single font set (PK format) If anyone has any questions or would like to receive a copy of our brochure that describes T2/jet, and the other T2 products, please contact me at Northlake Software. Terry Bryll (Bryll@NLS.COM) Northlake Software 812 SW Washington, Suite 1100 Portland, OR 97205-3215 503-228-3383 Fax 503-228-5662 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 20:58 N From: KNAPPEN%VKPMZD.Physik.Uni-Mainz.de@UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Bug in TeX??? Strange things happening with entirely blank character Keywords: LaTeX, testfont, blank a strange thing happened to me while I used Leslie Lamport's testfont to test the font eusm10 and eusb10. In position oct060 occured a {\tt x} and a {\H} respectively during the \table test. These characters have nothing to do with the tested fonts and look quite arbitrary to me. A closer look using gftype proved that \char48 (=oct060) is an empty character. The same thing happened to me while testing homemade fonts in which I left positions free with an entirely blank character. The character TeX choose to fill the place seems to be unpredictable, but several runs gave the same ersatz character. So what happens? I'm working on a VAX under VMS5.3-1 and having METAFONT 1.0, TeX 2.93, testfont has no version number or date specified. J"org Knappen Institut f"ur Kernphysik Postfach 3980 D-6500 Mainz BITNET: knappen@dmznat51 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 90 22:47 GMT+1 From: GAI-CENS-Politecnico-Torino Subject: Needed: psfig, VAX/VMS, DVIPS Keywords: psfig, VAX/VMS, DVIPS reply does anybody know where I can find PSFIG and DVIPS for VAX/VMS ? Silvano Gai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 07:12 EDT From: Ted Nieland Subject: Announcing the 1990 DECUS TeX Collection Keywords: DECUS, TeX Announcing DECUS TeX 1990 The DECUS Languages and Tools SIG Public Domain Working Group and the Electronic Publishing SIG TeX/LaTeX/WEB Working Group are proud to announce the 1990 DECUS TeX Collection. This collection offers nearly everything a TeX User would want on their system for TeX. The master tapes for the collection have been sent to DECUS Library and to the top of the DECUS LUG distribution tree. The new collection will be available to all shortly through their channel for procuring DECUS Software. This collection is an extensive rework of the previous collection with nearly all of the material being updated or new. More DVI drivers have been added and many of the VMS programs now sport a CLD interface. Also, an extensive effort on documentation has taken place resulting in a DECUS TeX Help Library. The following items are included in the DECUS TeX Collection 1990: o WEB (Tangle 4.0 / Weave 4.1) o TeX Version 3.0 o METAFONT Version 2.0 o LaTeX Macro Package 2.09 <7 Dec 1989> (with mod for TeX 3.0) o SliTeX Macro Package 2.09 <7 Dec 1989> (with mod for TeX 3.0) o BibTeX Version 0.99c o TeXsis Macro Package Version 2.13 o DVIOUT Version 1.2 o DVIPS for VMS, Version 5.35 o DVItoVDU Version 3.2 o DVItoLN03 Version 3.1-4 o XDVI (with support for DecWindows) o TeXx (with support for DecWindows) o Vassar Spell Version 2.2 o FWEB (including support for VMs) o CWEB (including support for VMS) o MWEB o TIB o CRUDETYPE o DVIDIS (for VAXStations Running VWS) o GPLOT 4.23 o RNOTOTEX o IDXTeX o GloTeX o DVIDVI o MAKEINDEX o PicTeX o TeXTYL o DVI2TTY o LSE Templates for LaTeX and BibTeX o MFWARE (GFtoPK, GFtoPX, etc) o PICMODE o TR2TEX o WS2LATEX o AmS-TeX Macro Package o AmS-LaTeX Macro Package o PHYZXX Macro Package o PHYSE Macro Package o ScriptTeX Macro Package o MuTeX Package (including METAFONT files) o Clarkson LaTeX & BibTeX Style Collections o DECUS TeX Help Library o Beebe Utah DVI Driver Collection with additional submissions o DVI2PS o Many Font Additions (Concrete, Duerer, Chess, DECUSLOGO, among others) o Support for Foreign Languages including Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. o TeX for the Amiga with some DVI Drivers and the LaTeX Picture Editor (LPE) o TeX for the Macintosh (OzTeX), along with BibTeX, and DVI drivers. o TeX for MS-DOS, plus previewers and DVI drivers. o Various TeXware for UNIX, including WEB2C and XTeX (for DECStations). The following output devices are supported: o DEC LN03 (requires a RAM Cartridge) [DVITOLN03] o DEC LN03 Plus (uses bitmaps) [DVIL3P] o DEC LA75 [DVI175] o PostScript (LPS40, Apple LaserWriter, LN03S) [DVIALW, DVIPS, DVIOUT, GTEX] o Hewlett Packard Laserjet [DVIJET] o Hewlett Packard Laserjet Plus [DVIJEP] o Cannon Engine Laserprinter [DVICAN] o EPSON Printer [DVIEPS] o Printronix Printer [DVIPRX] o Okidata Pacemark 2410 (72 or 144 DPI) [DVIOKI] o VT terminals, ReGIS Terminals, Tektronix Terminals [DVITOVDU] o VAXStations running VWS [DVIDIS] o DECWindows [XDVI, TeXX] o Version 3.10 BBN BitGraph Terminal [DVIBIT] o Golden Dawn Golden Laser 100 printer [DVIGD] o Imagen imPRESS-language laser printer family [DVIIMP] o Apple Imagewriter 72 or 144 dpi printers [DVIM72 or DVIMAC] o MPI Sprinter 72 dpi printer [DVIMPI] o Toshiba P-1351 180 dpi printer [DVITOS] o Generic Output [DVI2TTY] o QMS Laser Printers [GTEX] The collection includes numerous example files including A Gentle Introduction to TeX by Micheal Doob and Essential LaTeX by Jon Warbrick. For more information on getting a copy of the DECUS TeX Collection, contact your DECUS Local User Group or the DECUS Library at: DECUS Library (BP02) 219 Boston Post Road Marlboro, MA 01752-1850 (508) 480 3418/3659/3446 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 SEP 90 13:39:52 BST From: TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk Subject: Aston archive 00* listing files Keywords: Aston, archive In response to customer suggestions (and to make use of a program that I wrote a year ago), I've made some changes to the 00*.* listing files scattered around the archive. ARCHIVE LISTINGS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the top of the archive you will now find the files: disk$tex:[tex-archive]00directory.list disk$tex:[tex-archive]00directory.size disk$tex:[tex-archive]00last7days.files disk$tex:[tex-archive]00last30days.files Their contents are summarised briefly below: 00directory.list - all of the files in the archive grouped by directory. 00directory.size - all of the files in the archive grouped by directory. The size and date of each files is also listed. 00last30days.files - files in the archive which have been changed in the last 30 days listed in descending date order. The date, size, contents and full file specification is listed for each file in '00files.txt' format (see below). 00last7days.files - files in the archive which have been changed in the last 7 days listed in descending date order. The date, size, contents and full file specification is listed for each file in '00files.txt' format (see below). NOTES: With the exception of 00last7days.files (which didn't exist), these names used to begin with THREE zeros. The old files will remain for a while but will not be updated. The new files will be updated every day at about 0130 UK time (BST/GMT). DIRECTORY LISTINGS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In every (non-empty) directory of the archive, you should find a file called 00files.txt which lists all of the files in that directory in descending date order. The date, size, contents and full file specification is listed for each file. For example, here is the 00files.txt from the directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.AMSTEX] > Files matching DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.AMSTEX]*.* > listed in reverse time order (listing updated: 26-Aug-90 15:52). > > Last change Size Type File specification > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 30-Apr-90 11:13 - DIR disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]trip.dir > 30-Apr-90 11:13 - DIR disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]doc.dir > 30-Apr-90 11:13 - DIR disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amstex-style.dir > 13-Jul-89 20:06 12110 BIN disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amstex.doc_z > 13-Jul-89 20:05 10166 BIN disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amsppt.doc_z > 13-Jul-89 20:05 30856 BIN disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amsman.tex_z > 13-Jul-89 20:05 1296 BIN disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amsman.hdr_z > 13-Jul-89 20:05 1014 BIN disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amsman.errata_z > 14-Apr-86 21:32 1018 TXT disk$tex:[tex-archive.amstex]amstex.chg > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTES: The size is in bytes (not VMS blocks). The Type will be one of: BIN - binary file (use /ENCODE with the mail server) DIR - VMS directory (don't try to fetch these) TXT - ordinary text file The directory contents are checked every day, and the 00FILES.TXT files updated only if something has changed in the directory. The contents of 00LAST7DAYS.FILES and 00LAST30DAYS.FILES in the top level directory are in this format, except that the first two lines are slightly different: > Files matching DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE...]*.* > modified since 21-Aug-90 00:00 (listing updated: 27-Aug-90 01:49). > > Last change Size Type File specification > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you find any problems, errors, or have any comments to make, please direct them to me or . 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