TeXhax Digest Sunday, August 4th, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 032 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: LaTeX -> TeX conversion? Re: Help! dvips? hp output for dvi for unix HP drivers landscape with plain-TeX "cmsa10" OzTeX and fonts Re: TeXhax Digest V91 #026 Elvish fonts available Macros for Flow-diagrams and Nassi-Schneidermann-- available now from LISTSERV@HEARN web2c releases Laserjet IIIp driver TeX 3.?? .tfm to .pk or .gf conversion ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 11:08:48 PDT From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) Subject: LaTeX -> TeX conversion? Keywords: LaTeX, TeX, conversion Hi. We have some LaTeX code that we wish to integrate with TeX code into a document which is part of a series we are producing in TeX with in-house macros. Is anyone aware of any conversion program that can take LaTeX code and produce TeX code that generates the same DVI file? Thanks. Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech Internet: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov SPAN: GROUCH::PJS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 00:39 MST From: John Galt Subject: Re: Help! dvips? Keywords: dvips I struggled with DVIPS too. Where did you get your copy? I found that the DECUS TeX collection was not correctly setup. ( Get what you pay for, huh? ;-) ) If you installed DECUS TeX, there will be more problems with DVIPS. Send me email for details... As to the inability to find the header file "tex.pro", DVIPS does not neccessarily look in TEX_INPUTS *or* the default directory. To find out where it is really looking, you must invoke DVIPS with the debug flag requesting a trace of all files. This is done with the following command: $ dvips /debug=64 filename This is the output that I got when I gave the above command, with some intentional errors added in (I edited for clarity. The input file is "ACD2.DVI" and the intentionally incorrect font is "ps-zc-medita"): succeeded This is dvips 5.47 Copyright 1986-91 Radical Eye Software succeeded ' TeX output 1991.06.24:2347' -> ACD2.PS failed failed failed failed failed failed - MakeTeXPK ps-zc-medita 600 300 2+0/300 %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling \MAKETEXPK\ failed DVIPS%ERROR: Font ps-zc-medita.600pk not found, characters will be left blank. succeeded failed failed failed failed DVIPS%ERROR: Font ps-zc-medita.390pk not found, characters will be left blank. succeeded failed succeeded succeeded succeeded . [1] As you can see, my copy checks for tex.pro in TEX_POSTSCRIPT. Yours may check in a different area. As for the fonts, DVIPS looks for the correct files behind the scenes, and gives UNIX type error messages to the user. This can also be double checked with the /DEBUG=64 qualifier. Please note that the hierarchy appears to be: 1. Look for psfonts.map ( to see if it is a resident font ) 2. Look for font.vf file ( to see if it is a virtual font ) 3. Look for font.pk file ( to see if it is a TeX font ) 4. Look for font.tfm file ( to find the metric file at least ) Make sure that all of the logicals that you have listed are actually defined, and that they point in the right directions. Cheers, -John %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % "Dr. John Galt" Internet : johngalt@ccit.arizona.edu % % University of Arizona BITNET : johngalt@arizrvax % % P.O. Box 3328 Voice : (602) 623-5444 % % Tucson, AZ 85722 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 17:29:27 EDT From: jeh@mech1.COE.Northeastern.edu (James Hinds) Subject: hp output for dvi for unix Keywords: dviware, UNIX, HP June 24, 1991 We here are wondering if there is an HP version for dvi output that would work on SUN Unix machines. We have TeX and LaTeX and can produce output to our PS laser printer, but we also have faculty with HPIIP's who are printing local ascii text and would like to do local TeX printing. Is this an option like dvips? Can we get it? Or must we create it? We would be using this on SUN-4's. Thanks in advance. James E. Hinds jeh@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu 129.10.1.191 till 7/9/91 then ??? Mechanical Engingeering Dept. Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 617-437-5558 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 10:32:58 -0400 From: ms361@leah.Albany.edu (Mark Steinberger) Subject: HP drivers Keywords: HP drivers Our local HP printing environment has been upgraded to the latest version of the HP printer language: PCL5. At the same time, we've experienced problems printing with the Beebe driver dvijep: the hard copy document comes out garbled. Has anyone else had similar problems? And assuming that the upgrade to PCL5 is indeed the cause of the problem, is there an HP driver that produces PCL5-printable output? Thanks. --Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 15:51 EDT From: Mark Weber Subject: landscape with plain-TeX Keywords: TeX, plain tex, landscape mode Does a landscape mode exist for PLAIN-TeX? Where can i receive style files which would permit printing some pages in landscape mode in a norMAL (potrait) text. I am almost sure that a solution to this problem exists of which i am not aware. I'd appreciate any info related to that matter. I am using TeX 3.0 in MS-DOS environment. kind regards Mark Weber Dept. of Physics University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1200 IN%"xweber@utcc.utkvx.edu" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 16:17:34 -0500 From: svb@cs.purdue.edu (Stephan Bechtolsheim) Subject: "cmsa10" Keywords: fonts, cmsa10 Any idea what font "cmsa10" is? Can't find anything in the TeX book about it.... Thanks. Stephan v. Bechtolsheim Computer Sciences Department svb@cs.purdue.edu Computer Science Building (317) 494 7802 Purdue University FAX: (317) 494 0739 West Lafayette, IN 47907 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 08:01:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Glen Berger Subject: OzTeX and fonts Keywords: fonts, OzTeX Hi. My problem: 1) I love OzTeX. 2) I hate devoting 4 megs of disk space to fonts that shouldn't be necessary. 3) OzTeX's docs on postscript font usage are quite obtuse. So, solutions I am seeking: A) Quick explanation of how to use DOWNLOADABLE postscript fonts with OzTeX. B) A pointer to a postscript version of the computer modern font OzTeX uses. I guess the problem is that it seemed as if it needed tfm files for any and all ps fonts ... which I did not have. Any help?? Anyone? Pete Berger || ARPA: peterb@cs.cmu.edu Professional Student || Pete.Berger@andrew.cmu.edu Univ. Pittsburgh School of Law || BITNET: R746PB1P@CMCCVB Attend this school, not CMU || UUCP: ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!pb1p "Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism." -Bernard J. Hibbits ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 16:29 +0100 From: KNAPPEN%VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V91 #026 Keywords: fonts, european languages There is a 256 character font layout for european languages. It was accepted as a standard at the Cork TeX conference 1990 and published in TeXhax, uktex and on some discussion lists. I'll send it to you (it is a plain TeX file). This scheme is now implemented: The dc-fonts of Bochum are to find on the famous TeXservers (aston, ymir, listserv@dhdurz1,...). Yours sincerly, J"org Knappen. knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de % ... and no other e-mail address --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 17:37:15 BST From: Julian Bradfield Subject: Elvish fonts available Keywords: Elvish, fonts My METAFONT implementations of Tolkien's tengwar and cirth scripts are available by NIFTP and Internet FTP. They should be considered as an alpha release---even though I haven't done anything to them for five years, there are still things I want to do before relinquishing control! (In particular, please don't copy these to other archive sites, Aston and ymir excepted.) Filenames: export/jcb/Elvish/README export/jcb/Elvish/cirth.mf export/jcb/Elvish/teng.tex export/jcb/Elvish/teng10.mf export/jcb/Elvish/tengdev.mf export/jcb/Elvish/tengmacs.mf export/jcb/Elvish/tengmacs.phx export/jcb/Elvish/tengmain.mf export/jcb/Elvish/tengsecs.mf export/jcb/Elvish/tengteht.mf or for Unix types, just get export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Z NIFTP from Janet: site: uk.ac.ed.lfcs user: ftp pass: user80 Anonymous FTP from Internet: ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk (129.215.160.150) Julian Bradfield jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 16:09 MET From: "Johannes L. Braams" Subject: Macros for Flow-diagrams and Nassi-Schneidermann available now from LISTSERV@HEARN Keywords macros, Flow-diagrams, Nassi-Schneidermann Hi, Available now from LISTSERV@HEARN is a set of LaTeX-style files that enable the user to create flow-diagrams or Nassi-Schneidermann diagrams as a part of his document. Below I include the README file. The files are available from LISTSERV@HEARN in the TeX-NL FILELIST. They are called: NASSFLOW README the readme file, telling what's available (see below) NASSFLOW UUE A UUencoded ZOO archive containing the style files and manual pages. How to get the files from LISTSERV@HEARN To get an overview of what's available send the command GET TEX-NL FILELIST to the address LISTSERV@HEARN, either as an interactive command or in a mail-message. To get the package send the command GET NASSFLOW UUE to the same address. Regards, Johannes Braams (NTG WG14, communications) PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421, 2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl Fax : +31 70 3326477 This set contains the document style options with macros to create either flow charts or nassi-schneidermann diagrams in a LaTeX document. The Nassi/Flow style options-set contains the following files: AAREAD.ME This file FLOW.STY Style option file with flow chart macros FLOW_MAN.TEX Manaul page describing how to use the flow macros NASSI.STY Style option file with NS-Diagram macros NASS_MAN.TEX Manual page describing how to use the nassi macros MANUAL.STY Style file to create both manual pages STRUCT.LSE LSEDIT support for both flow and nassi ADD.LSE LSEDIT support for both flow and nassi Unfortunately there are hardly any comments in the .STY files. The manual pages however fully descibe the use of the macros. The .LSE files are included in the set for those of you already using the LSEDIT environment and section files made for LaTeX, which are part of the Decus TeX collection. When included you'll have full support on the macros of both nassi and flow. STRUCT.LSE is a complete file which can be added to the current set of files, ADD.LSE contains a few definitions to be included in the current file LATEX_ENVIRONMENTS.LSE Marion van Geest-Slort, Center for the Automation of Weapon and Command Systems (CAWCS) Royal Netherlands Navy P.O. Box 10000 1780 CA Den Helder The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 16:18:12 EDT From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: web2c releases Keywords: web2c > Could you say a few words to this list (+ UKTeX & TeXhax) about > installation of updates to web2c? I'm not sure what you mean by ``updates''. All the web2c releases I have made consist of two files: 1) web2c-.tar.Z 2) web-.tar.Z The web-*.tar.Z archive is just the master web files. These can be retrieved from anywhere; labrea.stanford.edu is The Ultimate Source. They are put into a slightly different directory structure than on labrea. The web2c-*.tar.Z file is all the remaining files needed to compile TeX. It untars into the same directory structure as the web-* archive, of course. Neither archive has TeX macros, fonts, or other things needed for a complete distribution. You can order a Unix TeX distribution which includes all these things from the University of Washington (email elisabet@max.acs.washington.edu); or you can ftp from byron.u.washington.edu. (The Unix TeX distribution on labrea is old.) I have never released any patches or other partial updates or distributions. David, I don't know what uktex's address is, so feel free to forward this there. karl@cs.umb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Jun 91 17:09:00 EDT From: "YEE-TAK FUNG" Subject: Laserjet IIIp driver Keywords: dviware I would appreciate if anyone can tell me where to get the printer driver for HP Laserjet IIIP, in public domain if possible. We have the PC Tex 2.93 version. Thanks. YTF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 10:16:39 EDT From: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry) Subject: TeX 3.?? Keywords: TeX 3.0 tony@marcam.dsir.govt.nz asked where he could get the latest Unix TeX. Since this question comes up a lot, I thought I'd post the answer (I am currently maintaining web2c, the basis of Unix TeX). You can get the complete Unix TeX distribution by ftp from byron.u.washington.edu [128.95.48.32]. This has all the usual macros, fonts, etc. If you're installing TeX for the first time, go here. If you just want the web2c part (the sources and change files for the Stanford project programs), you can get that by ftp from ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23] or ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]. Do not trust labrea for anything that is Unix-specific. It is the ultimate source for Knuth's sources, macros, and fonts. It is definitely out of date wrt web2c and the rest of Unix TeX. I have never distributed any patches to web2c, so if you have any file that claims to be such a patch, be wary. karl@cs.umb.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 91 21:14:11 -0500 From: bulsara@ecn.purdue.edu (Vispi H Bulsara) Subject: .tfm to .pk or .gf conversion Keywords: convert files, .tfm, .gf, .pk Hi, Is there any way to convert .tfm files to .*pk/.*gf files of the requested resolution? Though the TeX files are compiled correctly due to the presence of the .tfm file in the font directory, any attempt to preview it (I am using dvipage on the SUN 3/60 and SUN SPARCstation 1 workstations) or print the file out on the IMAGEN or POSTSCRIPT printers results in junk. Alternatively, is there any ftp site where the .pk or .gf font files are stored? 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