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] *****************************************