TeXhax Digest Monday, October 7, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 045 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: Request for opinions on HP LaserJets DVI driver for HP Laserjet III and IIIP Beginners' LaTeX (essential.tex) Re: TeXhax Digest V91 #043 TeX utility converter program PLTOTF.EXE space dependencies in LaTeX FC font encoding scheme -- 2nd draft New version of SHADOW.STY available on FILESERV TeX version 2.93/3.14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 17:37 EDT From: Phil Hirschhorn Subject: Request for opinions on HP LaserJets Keywords: HP LaserJet, opinions I'm finally about to get a laser printer for use at home, and I'm writing to ask if anyone has advice/opinions on what works best. I've got an IBM AT-clone computer, a TeX and a screen previewer that work fine, and I've just obtained (by email) Gustaf Neumann's driver to print DVI files on HP-LaserJets. (He's neumann@awiwuw11.bitnet) I'm thinking of getting either an HP IIP or an HP IIIP. I'll mostly be printing mathematics in TeX, only rarely (if ever) using graphics, but I'll also sometimes use a classical PC word processor. Does anyone have an opinion on whether the IIIP's advantages are worth the cost? How much memory will I need in order to be happy? Do you think this is all a terrible idea, and that I should get some other machine? (Or is this all a terrible idea, and I should go back to using pen and ink, as the good Lord intended?) Thanks, Phil Hirschhorn phirschhorn@lucy.wellesley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 10:13:52 EDT From: David.A.Jaeger@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: DVI driver for HP Laserjet III and IIIP Keywords: HP LaserJet III, IIIP Does anyone know of a DVI driver for an HP LaserJet III or IIIP that will make use of their resolution enhancement technology? Many thanks, David A. Jaeger Computer Consultant : Statistical Consultant Department of Economics : Population Studies Center The University of Michigan : 1225 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220 : Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2590 office: (313) 764-6258 : office: (313) 998-7150 fax: (313) 764-2769 : fax: (313) 998-7415 : Internet: : BITNET: David.Jaeger@um.cc.umich.edu : USERECAN@UMICHUM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 13:52 GMT From: Peter Flynn Subject: Beginners' LaTeX (essential.tex) Keywords: essential.tex, Beginners' LaTeX The file I was searching for is in tex.ac.uk::[tex-archive.doc]essential.tex but it contains a reference to 'handbook.sty' which I cannot find anywhere. Has anyone got this file? ///Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 13:43 +0100 From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V91 #043 Keywords: fonts, Edh and Thorn The letters Edh and Thorn (both upper- and lowercase) as well as the ogonek (aka reverse cedilla) are included in the ec font encoding scheme, which is the coming standard for 8-bit fonts. There are two implementations known to me, called em-fonts (a virtual font approach) and dc (Metafont approach). The dcfonts are available from every good server (ymir, aston, stuttgart,...). Yours sincerly, J"org Knappen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 19:03:47 UCR From: "Eduardo J. Piza" Subject: TeX utility converter program PLTOTF.EXE Keywords: PLTOTF.EXE Dear TeXhax people: Also, I'm searching for the TeX utility converter program PLTOTF.EXE, to convert .pl into .tfm files. Do you now where can I get it? Eduardo Piza (COSTA RICA) Bitnet e-mail: epiza@ucrvm2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 13:20:12 EDT From: toms@ncifcrf.gov Subject: space dependencies in LaTeX Keywords: LaTeX, space dependencies Hi LaTeXers: With the exception of comments, LaTeX is supposed to be free format. However there are two cases where this is not allowed, and I wonder why. First, citations cannot have spaces between them: \cite{Smith1982, Jones1985} is objected to. So is \cite{Smith1982, Jones1985} although this would be very useful to use. (One has to do it like \cite{Smith1982,% Jones1985} which means one must have a % in the midst of the text. If the paragraph is reformatted (a convenience for cleaning up the text file while one works, not to replace the typesetter!), bingo - it will crash. Can this be fixed in future versions?? The second case I just came across. \title{Demonstration of \LaTeX space problems} \author{P. Pan\thanks{ Laboratory of Boondogle, National Space Institute, Tyco, Moon}, and Me M. I \thanks{ Laboratory of Picky Details, BSOT, Moon, Internet address: me@bsot.moo } \thanks{To whom correspondence should be addressed.}} ^ With the space there, two symbols appear on the author line, and two footnotes. Without the space, only one symbol appears, but there are still two footnotes! Looks like a bug to me! Is it? Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 17:40 +0100 From: KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de Subject: FC font encoding scheme -- 2nd draft Keywords: FC font scheme, encoding Second Draft for the African Font Encoding Scheme FC This is the second draft for the FC font encoding scheme. I want to fix this scheme at 1-nov-1991 and change it no more. If you see any flaw in it, complain now, before it is too late. I'm nearly ready with a METAFONT fount according to the fc scheme, and I want to make it accesible to the public in the beginning of 1992. It will be copyrighted, but free according to the GNU licence. Send any suggestions to: knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de or to: J"org Knappen Institut f"ur Kernphysik Postfach 39 80 D-W 6500 Mainz Allemagne The TUG (TeX User Group) conference of Cork 1990 has proposed a 256 character font encoding scheme well suited for european languages. This scheme does not fit for the various african languages with latin writing. So I want to propose a scheme suited for the so called critical languages of africa. It should be named FC or FCM for aFrican Computer. The coding is arbitrary besides the following rules: * The lower 128 codes are identical to the Cork scheme * A glyph also occurring in the Cork scheme is placed on the same code point as in the Cork scheme * Each letter from the 128-char cm-font is saved (Thus !', \L,\O etc. will work) * The uppercase/lowercase mechanism holds The following languages are covered: Akan, Bamileke, Basa (Kru), Bemba, Bete, Ciokwe, Dinka, Efik, Ewe-Fon, Fulani (Fulful), G\~a, Ganda, Gbaya, Hausa, Igbo, Kamba, Kanuri, Kikuyu, Kikongo, Kpelle, Krio, Luba, Mandekan (Bambara), Mende, More, Ngala, Nyanja, Oromo, Rundi, Kinya Rwanda, Sango, Shona, Somali, Songhai, Sotho (two different writing systems), Suaheli, Tiv, Tsonga, Yao, Yoruba, Xhosa and Zulu. Also covered are: Maltese and Sami (European languages not covered by the Cork scheme). Not included are: Tamasheq (Berber): The UNESCO suggests an alphabet with hooktop t, s, and z. Since I have not seen this in real print, I'm not sure about the relevance of this alphabet, I don't even know if it was adopted by one coutry in which Tamasheq is spoken. Nama: The symbols for the click sounds in Nama are not included. They can, however, be created by macro calls. Serer: I have a secondary reference that Serer uses hooktop p. If I had a primary reference, this character is a candidat for inclusion. \.Igb\.o: The catholic orthography includes an horizontal crossed o, which is not included in the fc scheme, since this system is considered obsolete. I tried to consult the most recent dictionaries. A good part of the mentioned languages has not yet a standardised writing system. I considered accents which are only tonal marks and optional in writing not to be a part of a letter. These should be created by using floating accents. (Even double accenting is possible, e.g. Open e with tilde and acute.) Accented letters, where the accent is a part of the letter, are included. Here are first the changes since the first draft: I newly included: A with trema Ezh T with tail Latin letter Iota Double universal accent I moved to other code points: Open E with Tilde O with macron I removed: A with circumflex A with grave U with circumflex W with breve small raised w Only by typo, in some versions an A with acute occured. This was never really in and is not included now. Support is weak for the following characters: E with acute C with cedilla G with dot above A with trema Enj These are the most likely ones to dissappear for new insertions. If you know facts supporting them, let me know. The table: octal code description 200 Capital letter hooktop B 201 Capital letter hooktop D 202 Capital letter open E (\varepsilon-like) 203 Capital letter reversed E (like \exists) 204 Capital letter long F 205 Capital letter E with ha\v{c}ek 206 Capital letter ipa Gamma 207 Capital letter double barred H 210 Capital letter hooktop K 211 Capital letter Enj 212 Capital letter open O (reversed C) 213 Capital letter N with acute 214 Capital letter Esh 215 Capital letter Eng 216 Capital letter Round V 217 Capital letter hooktop Y 220 Capital letter G with dot above 221 Capital letter M with acute 222 Capital letter S with ha\v{c}ek 223 Capital letter N with dot above 224 Capital letter N with line below 225 Capital letter S with dot below 226 Capital letter Ezh 227 Capital letter crossed T 230 Capital letter E with dot above 231 Capital letter E with dot below 232 Capital letter I with tilde 233 Capital letter T with tail 234 ligature t-esh 235 ligature fj 236 Lowercase letter crossed d 237 double grave accent 240 Lowercase letter hooktop b 241 Lowercase letter hooktop d 242 Lowercase letter open e 243 Lowercase letter inverted e 244 Lowercase letter long f 245 Lowercase letter e with ha\v{c]ek 246 Lowercase letter ipa gamma 247 Lowercase letter crossed h 250 Lowercase letter hooktop k 251 Lowercase letter enj 252 Lowercase letter open O 253 Lowercase letter n with acute 254 Lowercase letter esh 255 Lowercase letter eng 256 Lowercase letter round v (\upsilon) 257 Lowercase letter hooktop y 260 Lowercase letter g with dot above 261 Lowercase letter m with acute 262 Lowercase letter s with ha\v{c}ek 263 Lowercase letter n with dot above 264 Lowercase letter n with line below 265 Lowercase letter s with dot below 266 Lowercase letter ezh 267 Lowercase letter crossed t 270 Lowercase letter e with dot above 271 Lowercase letter e with dot below 272 Lowercase letter i tilde 273 Lowercase letter t with tail 274 double universal accent 275 inverted exclamation mark 276 inverted question mark 277 universal accent 300 Capital letter Iota 301 Capital letter I with dot below 302 Capital letter Open E with tilde 303 Capital letter A with tilde 304 Capital letter A with trema 305 Capital letter Open O with tilde 306 Capital letter ligature AE 307 Capital letter C with cedilla 310 Capital letter E with grave 311 Capital letter E with acute 312 Capital letter E with circumflex 313 Capital letter E with trema 314 Capital letter E with line below 315 Capital letter E with macron 316 Capital letter E with tilde 317 Capital letter I with diaresis 320 Capital letter crossed D (Edh) 321 Capital letter N with tilde 322 Capital letter O with grave 323 Capital letter O with dot above 324 Capital letter O with circumflex 325 Capital letter O with tilde 326 Capital letter O with trema 327 Capital letter ligature OE 330 Capital letter crossed O (\O) 331 Capital letter O with dot below 332 Capital letter O with line below 333 Capital letter O with macron 334 Capital letter O with ha\v{c}ek 335 Capital letter U with dot below 336 Capital letter U with tilde 337 cross piece for polish L and l (and maybe other letters, like I and J) 340 Lowercase letter iota 341 Lowercase letter i with dot below 342 Lowercase letter open e with tilde 343 Lowercase letter a with tilde 344 Lowercase letter a with trema 345 Lowercase letter open o with tilde 346 Lowercase letter ligature ae 347 Lowercase letter c with cedilla 350 Lowercase letter e with grave 351 Lowercase letter e with acute 352 Lowercase letter e with circumflex 353 Lowercase letter e with trema 354 Lowercase letter e with line below 355 Lowercase letter e with macron 356 Lowercase letter e with tilde 357 Lowercase letter i with diaresis 360 Lowercase letter d with tail (note: not edh!) 361 Lowercase letter n with tilde 362 Lowercase letter o with grave 363 Lowercase letter o with dot above 364 Lowercase letter o with circumflex 365 Lowercase letter o with tilde 366 Lowercase letter o with trema 367 Lowercase letter ligature oe 370 Lowercase letter crossed o (\o) 371 Lowercase letter o with dot below 372 Lowercase letter o with line below 373 Lowercase letter o with macron 374 Lowercase letter o with ha\v{c}ek 375 Lowercase letter u with dot below 376 Lowercase letter u with tilde 377 Lowercase letter scharfes s (\ss) J"org Knappen email: knappen@vkpmzd.physik.uni-mainz.de Institut f"ur Kernphysik Postfach 3980 D-W6500 Mainz Allemagne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1991 16:06:37 CDT From: "George D. Greenwade" Subject: New version of SHADOW.STY available on FILESERV Keywords: shadow.sty Mauro Orlandini , who is the author of shadow.sty (creates "shadowed" \fbox'es) forwarded me a fix (dated 10 May 1991) to the style so it can now work within a \twocolumn environment. The updated file may be retrieved by including the command: SENDME STY.SHADOW in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu). General information on FILESERV can be retrieved by including the command HELP in the body of your mail message. This file is also available for anonymous ftp retrieval from Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) in the [.STY] directory. Thanks are extended to Mauro (who just joined INFO-TeX today!) for contributing this file update. 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: Thu, 26 Sep 91 11:20 -0300 From: Gus Gassmann Subject: TeX version 2.93/3.14 Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, 2.93/3.14 One of our users here has observed a curious spacing problem in LaTeX after we upgraded from TeX 2.93 to 3.14 recently. The snippet below puts some vertical space (about one quarter-inch) between the first rule and the name when running under 2.93, but no space when running under 3.14. There is about a quarter-inch separation between the name and the horizontal rule below it in *both* versions of TeX. Can anyone give an explanation of this phenomenon? Is this a bug? feature? In which package? Any thoughts would be appreciated. I read the digest and will summarize private communications. gus gassmann ( gassmann @ earth.sba.dal.ca --- internet ) gassmann @ dalac --- bitnet ) % --------------------cut here--------------------------- \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \textheight 9.25in \textwidth 6.2in \voffset -1in \hoffset -.92in \parskip .15cm \newfont{\head}{cmssbx10 scaled\magstep 3} \begin{document} \hspace*{9.0em}\rule{13.3cm}{.02in}\\ \hspace*{10.6em}{\head Name of student} \\ \hspace*{10.6em}\rule{13.3cm}{.02in} % etc.... \end{document} ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%% 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 ************************** -------