TeXhax Digest Wednesday, 3 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 009
Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott
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Today's Topics:
Regulations for theses
Euler with LaTeX?
PK files for PostScript fonts
Lucida TFM/VF's for TeX
Please HELP: "How to succesfully make TeX 3.14 on HP9000/720 ?"
TR2LATEX 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord
Structure/style of law publications
Why does \font freeze \jobname?
TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord
Free TeX for PC exists ?
PSTRICKS available on FILESERV/Niord
TeXhax Digest V92 #007
Euler LaTeX style?
PC version of tex
Correction to PC version of tex
PC version of tex
tfm files for postscript fonts
Re: Output from bibliographic databases services into (La)TeX ...
E D I T O R ' S N O T E
Apologies for the non-appearance of TeXhax during my absence
in the USA on my honeymoon during the last three weeks.
--Ed.
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 15:28:56 +0000
From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme
Subject: Regulations for theses
Keywords: theses, regulations
From time to time, I've seen queries in TeXhax along the lines
My university's regulations specify that theses should have
double-spacing or one-and-a-half line-spacing. How can I get LaTeX
to do this?
to which Leslie Lamport would reply along the lines
My advice in all such cases is to get your college to modify its
obsolete requirements, which were developed for typewriters, not
laserprinters.
(For example, there was such an exchange dated 8th June 1988.) I think
Leslie is right, and that universities should modify their regulations.
But we rarely get to hear "what happened next?". Did the enquirer manage
to get his/her institution to change their outdated regulations? What
proportion of institutions have changed their regulations? What proportion
have changes under consideration?
In the UK, there has been some progress:
* the British Standard for theses (BS 4821) now allows standard typesetting
conventions for "typeset" theses. (It takes careful analysis of their
wording to deduce this. But I've had indirect confirmation from
the chair of the BS committee that this was their intention.)
Associated with this is a recommendation that lines should contain
between 60 and 70 characters (including spaces).
* York cites BS 4821, and suggests that people contact the York computing
service for advice about typography.
* I seem to remember hearing that Cranfield requires single-spacing.
* Oxford has a nice phrase about "output ... imitates letterpress, then
the layout may be that of a well-designed book".
* Nottingham regulations say that the combination of standard LateX
line-spacing and line-length is OK for postgraduate theses. We still have
problems with undergraduate reports (since each department makes its own
regulations, so its more difficult to negotiate with them all), but I
anticipate that we'll get "if typesetting, then adopt typesetting
conventions" into most undergraduate regulations within the next year.
* I have the impression that many places adopt a pragmatic attitude
"if it looks alright, it is alright" rather than bothering what the
letter of the regulations actually say.
* On the other hand, I was in e-mail correspondence with someone at
Edinburgh last year who had to make a formal appeal to get his
"standard typesetting line-spacing" thesis accepted. (Otherwise, he'd
have had to re-format with increased spacing, re-print and re-bind.)
I understand that his appeal succeeded, but I don't know whether that
means that other Edinburgh people can now be confident that if their
thesis is done "like a well-designed book", it will get past the
bureaucrats.
Arguments I've found useful are:
* Draw people's attention to experimental results on readability as
shown, for example, on page 179 of Richard Rubinstein's "Digital
Typography" ISBN 0-201-17633-5. The gist of it is that "standard
typesetting conventions give typeset text that is nearly optimal for
continuous reading". Hence one can say "Do you really want to make
your thesis more difficult to read than it would be with standard
typesetting conventions?".
* Quote the Oxford regulations about "well-designed book". (Prestigeous
place, Oxford!)
* In the UK, quote the British Standard.
* To people who say that they want the inter-line space for examiners to
scribble comments, point out that "well-designed books" limit their
line-length so, in practice on A4, examiners will get big side margins
in which to scribble.
* If someone is arguing that "double-spaced is easier to read", and they
have a traditionally typeset book on their desk, ask "do you think
that this book would have been easier to read if its line-spacing had
been drastically increased?"
* If someone is arguing that "double-spaced is easier to read", and you
know that they edit a journal, note that "but you don't have such
line-spacing when your journal is printed".
* Quote books on typography at them.
Would any readers like to share their experiences of what is a successful
strategy for getting their regulations changed (or circumvented), or to
report dismal failures? Are LaTeX style-files such as MITTHESIS.STY,
UCTHESIS.STY and SUTHESIS.STY (which increase the line-spacing "as the
typewriter-oriented regulations require") now heading for obsolescence?
David Rhead
JANET: d.rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 22:50:10 -0800
From: darrell@edu.ucsc.cse
Subject: Euler with LaTeX?
Keywords: LaTeX, fonts, Euler
Does anyone have a style file to use the Euler fonts with straight LaTeX? I'm
not anxious to learn AMSLaTeX, but I'd like to use the Euler fonts.
Thanks, DL
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 13:06:53 -0500
From: karl@edu.umb.cs (Karl Berry)
Subject: PK files for PostScript fonts
Keywords: fonts, PostScript, utilities
I've replaced ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/psfonts.tar
with another set of PK files, generated by Rich Wales (thanks, Rich), at
the sizes that NFSS wants. The fonts were made with the gsrenderfont
program, part of the GNU font utilities, on prep.ai.mit.edu
[18.71.0.38]:pub/gnu/fontutils-0.4.tar.Z.
Enjoy.
karl@cs.umb.edu
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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 15:03:35 -0500
From: karl@edu.umb.cs (Karl Berry)
Subject: Lucida TFM/VF's for TeX
Keywords: TFM, metrics, fonts, PostScript, Lucida
I've put metric files for using the PostScript Lucida fonts with TeX on
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/lucida/lucida.tar.Z
These files will be of no use to you unless you also have the Type 1
PFA/PFB/etc. files with the outlines.
This includes the math fonts as a (more or less) drop-in replacement for
Computer Modern. I've worked some on the magic math font parameters,
but no doubt improvements are possible.
I used virtual fonts to do this. I suggest using Tom Rokicki's dvips as
your DVI-to-PostScript program. dvips is on
labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*.tar.Z.
Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz, who did much of the initial work, and Chuck
Bigelow and Kris Holmes, who designed the typefaces.
karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 14:05:21 +0100
From: Laurent Demailly
Subject: Please HELP: "How to succesfully make TeX 3.14 on HP9000/720 ?"
Keywords: TeX, installation, HP 9000
Please Help !!! I've got TeX 3.14 on our HP 9000/720 and I
can't get it working, Is there anybody that could help me ? I can
make initex (big one), but the program does not work : for instance :
>initex ; I launch 'initex'
This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (INITEX) ; I get the prompt
**plain.tex ; I type plain.tex
; I got nothing !
*\dump ; I try \dump
; I got nothing ! * ; I
enter noting () (Please type a command or say
`\end') ; I got this
*x ; I try x
; I got nothing !
*\end ; I try \end
; I got nothing ! *^C ; Only
way to exit (^C or ^D) ! Emergency
stop. ; that's what I get... <*>
plain.tex ; ...
No pages of output. ; ... Transcript
written on ?. ; ... 'make run-triptrap' don't work
(same king of messages...) and small version of TeX crash on plain
format with 'not enough memory' error (on my 64Mb RAM station !!!)
I've tried some changes in "site.h" and "makefile" without success...
Please HELP.... If someone can mail me
(dl@hplyot.obspm.circe.fr) "site.h" and "makefile" and/or hints it
would save me ... (I have succesfully build, if you're interested
emacs18.57, ghostscript-2.4, ghostview-1.1, gnuplot-3.1, rayshade.4.0,
saoimage, tcsh-6.01, xfig-2.1.3, transfig-2.1.4, xloadimage,
xlock-2.2, ... [but not gcc2.0 but that's another tale...]) [My
collegues here are wait to send their articles and publications...]
Thank you in advance.
Laurent Demailly.
et un bonjour de Paris, France
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 92 14:26:21 -0600
From: "George D. Greenwade"
Subject: TR2LATEX 2.0 on FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: LaTeX, troff, conversion, SHSU Archive
In (comp.text.tex, 22 Apr 92 14:57:18 GMT),
krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted the
UUENCODEd tar archive of version 2.0 of the troff to LaTeX converter
tr2latex. I caught it in the incoming box for ctt-Digest (to ctt-Digest
subscribers: yes, the 1,300 or so lines have been cut out for tomorrow's
edition) and went ahead and processed it. Below is the description file
from our site for this new version.
- --George
===========================================================================
TR2LATEX
--------
The TR2LATEX package includes the files of the April 22, 1992, release of
Christian Engel's
modifications and enhancements of Kamal Al-Yahya's tr2latex, Troff-to-LaTeX
conversion program. Significantly, the source code can now be compiled and
run under VMS and DOS, as well as the original U*ix. See the README file
for instructions on how to handle these new systems.
Since all of the files in this package are required for for a complete
distribution, include the command:
SENDME TR2LATEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
If for some reason, you should need a specific file, say, TR2LATEX.README,
include the command:
SENDME TR2LATEX.README
in your mail message to FILESERV.
For anonymous ftp access, there is a compressed U*ix tar file, a VMS backup
saveset, and a ZIP file of the package available in the directory
[.TR2LATEX.FTP] on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8) under the filenames
TR2LATEX-2_0.TAR_Z, TR2LATEX-2_0.BCK, and TR2LATEX-2_0.ZIP, respectively.
Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File Blocks Save file as:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
TR2LATEX.DIFFS_TEX 8 DIFFS.TEX
TR2LATEX.FLIP_H 2 FLIP.H
TR2LATEX.FORBID_H 4 FORBID.H
TR2LATEX.GREEK_H 2 GREEK.H
TR2LATEX.HISTORY 7 HISTORY
TR2LATEX.MACROS_H 6 MACROS.H
TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_MMS 3 MAKEFILE.MMS
TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_MSC 5 MAKEFILE.MSC
TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_TC 5 MAKEFILE.TC
TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_UNIX 6 MAKEFILE.UNIX
TR2LATEX.MAKEFILE_VMS 2 MAKEFILE.VMS
TR2LATEX.MAKE_TR2LATEX_COM 2 MAKE_TR2LATEX.COM
TR2LATEX.MATHS_H 3 MATHS.H
TR2LATEX.PROTOS_H 5 PROTOS.H
TR2LATEX.README 11 README
TR2LATEX.SETUPS_H 7 SETUPS.H
TR2LATEX.SIMIL_H 3 SIMIL.H
TR2LATEX.SUBS_C 43 SUBS.C
TR2LATEX.TESTFILE 6 TESTFILE
TR2LATEX.TESTFILE_TEX-ORIG 8 TESTFILE.TEX-ORIG
TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_C 15 TR2LATEX.C
TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_HLP 3 TR2LATEX.HLP
TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_MAN 9 TR2LATEX.MAN
TR2LATEX.TR2LATEX_MAN_TEX-ORIG 10 TR2LATEX_MAN.TEX-ORIG
(or TR2LATEX.MAN.TEX-ORIG)
TR2LATEX.TROFFMAN_STY 11 TROFFMAN.STY
TR2LATEX.TROFFMS_STY 11 TROFFMS.STY
TR2LATEX.TR_C 56 TR.C
TR2LATEX.VAXCRTL_OPT 1 VAXCRTL.OPT
TR2LATEX.VERSION_C 1 VERSION.C
Approximate total blocks in full TROFFtoTeX package = 255
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 16:54:23 +0000
From: David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme
Subject: Structure/style of law publications
Keywords: LaTeX, law, citations
I'm helping someone LaTeX a law thesis, so have been looking at:
* conventions for in-text citations of law cases
* how to list such cases in a "table of cases" in a book's front matter.
(A "table of cases" seems to be a type of index.)
I have some tentative ideas about the structures involved and how to handle
them, but would like to get comments from someone who knows about:
* the conventions to be adopted when typesetting books about law
* the possibilities with which any citation commands may have to cope.
If you might be "the someone", could you let me know so that I can send you
some stuff for comment?
David Rhead
JANET: d.rhead@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.vme
[P.S. I apologise for sending so many items to TeXhax within such a short
period of time. The first 2 are re-submissions of items I sent to
TeXhax@edu.washington.cs a few months back, which never appeared.]
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 22:21:41 +0000
From: Chris Thompson
Subject: Why does \font freeze \jobname?
Keywords: TeX, \font, \jobname
This is a somewhat updated version of the question I posted in UKTeX
on 13 April: I thought I would try it out here as well. This couldn't
conceivably have anything to do with measuring the turnround time of
the new TeXhax setup, of course. Perish the thought.
Barbara Beeton has asked me to write an item for TUGboat on the
circumstances in which \jobname gets set to "texput". There are a
lot of cases, many quite obscure. There is one particular one which
I can't understand the rationale for at all: \font forces \jobname
to "texput" if it is not already set. For example, if your response
to the ** prompt (or command line input, if your favourite TeX
implementation supports it) is
\font\gerbil=cmr12\input wombat
you will find that the DVI file is "texput.dvi", not "wombat.dvi",
and so on.
The code that is responsible for this is the following line at the
start of |new_font| in section 1257 of tex.web:
begin if job_name=0 then open_log_file;
{avoid confusing \.{texput} with the font name}
However, I can't understand the reasoning behind the comment here: how
can confusion arise? Nor can I make anything obvious go wrong in a TeX
in which this line is removed.
Any ideas? I have received suggestions that the test is an historical
relic that is no longer necessary. Note that there is no similar test
or effect for \openin or \openout. The list of things that freeze
\jobname and open the log file is, very briefly: explicit or implicit
\input, prompting for more terminal input, expanding \jobname,
executing \shipout, executing \font, normal or abnormal termination,
and a really recondite case which you will have to wait for the TUGboat
article for (I can't give everything away here, can I?). It *doesn't*
include \write (to log), \message, or \errmessage.
Chris Thompson
Cambridge University Computing Service
JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx
Internet: cet1@phx.cam.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 16:27:34 -0600
From: "George D. Greenwade"
Subject: TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: LaTeX, troff, conversion
In (comp.text.tex, 27 Apr 92 15:40:57 GMT),
krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted:
> This is the new version 2.2 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. It
> is a compressed tar archive. Follow steps 1 through 6 to unpack it.
Christian's obviously been busy! I caught this while going through the
ctt-Digest receipts and it has been removed from that distribution (and so
noted). The changes between version 2.2 and 2.1 (announced and installed
last week) are listed as follows:
# Revision 2.2 1992/04/27 15:13:51 Christian_Engel
# - Fixed a bug in flip_twice I have brought in with revision 1.02 but didn't
# notice earlier. It lead to wrong translation of nested flipping math
# commands like ``a under hat''.
# Bug reported by Richard Walker .
# - Some modifications to calm down some strange warnings on strange
# compilers reported from the net
# - Fixed bug in getopts: now input of stdin by pure command line argument `-'
# works properly.
# - Fixed bug in main: multiple command line arguments work properly now.
To retrieve the new version, include the command:
SENDME TR2LATEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
For anonymous ftp users of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), a compressed U*ix
tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file reside in the
directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] as TR2LATEX-2_2.TAR_Z, *.BCK, and *.ZIP,
respectively.
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
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 18:05:00 +0800
From: 7913557@TWNCTU01.bitnet
Subject: Free TeX for PC exists ?
Keywords: TeX, PC, implementation
Hi, netter:
Could somebody tell me where to find a free (used not for commercial)
TeX implementation on PC. I heard TeX is a very good program to produce
a nice report in high quality. I will use it to write my report only.
Whether a free TeX for PC exists or not, please reply the mail.
very thanks.
K.S. Chen
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Date: Fri, 01 May 92 15:17:54 -0600
From: "George D. Greenwade"
Subject: PSTRICKS available on FILESERV/Niord
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX, PostScript, macros
Timothy Van Zandt (another economist!) posted:
> I have a new package of PostScript macros for LaTeX that I would like to
> submit to the archives.
Thanks! I've done the necessary things to make it available from FILESERV
and Niord; below is the description file from FILESERV.
- --George
===========================================================================
PSTRICKS
--------
The PSTRICKS package includes the files for version 0.9 (April 28, 1992) of
Timothy Van Zandt's pstricks.
pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible
with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX , LaTeX and AmS-LaTeX.
Included are macros for color, graphics, rotation and overlays. It has
several special features:
* There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with
a flexible interface and with color support. All lines and outlines
can be solid, dotted or dashed. Lines and curves can have arrowheads,
t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends. Closed regions can be filled
with solid colors, lines or crosshatch.
* With nested rotations, you can specify rotations with respect to
the coordinate system before the previous rotations. For example,
this lets you put a piece of text right side up even though it
is inside a rotated structure.
* There is "\dbox" which lets you use things analogous to \hfill and
\hrulefill, but in any direction.
* There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for making pictures.
* There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables.
* There are rotation macros that create a box with the appropriate
dimensions, for any angle of rotation.
To retrieve the files via e-mail, include the command:
SENDME PSTRICKS
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
If, for some reason, you should only need one of these files, say
PSTRICKS.PST-READ_ME, include the command:
SENDME PSTRICKS.PST-READ_ME
in your message to FILESERV. For anonymous ftp retrieval from
Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), there is a compressed U*ix tar file, a
compressed VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file
(PSTRICKS-V0_9.TAR_Z, *.BCK_Z, and *.ZIP) available in the directory
[.PSTRICKS]
Files in this package: (1 Block = 512 bytes)
File Blocks Save file as:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
PSTRICKS.PST-CODE_TEX 4 PST-CODE.TEX
PSTRICKS.PST-READ_ME 14 PST-READ.ME
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_1OF7 79 PST-USER.PS (in 7 parts)
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_2OF7 79
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_3OF7 79
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_4OF7 79
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_5OF7 79
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_6OF7 79
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_PS_7OF7 51
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_TEX_1OF2 79 PST-USER.TEX (in 2 parts)
PSTRICKS.PST-USER_TEX_2OF2 52
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_CON 10 PSTRICKS.CON
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_1OF4 79 PSTRICKS.DOC (in 4 parts)
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_2OF4 80
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_3OF4 80
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_DOC_4OF4 24
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_PRO 13 PSTRICKS.PRO
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_STY 1 PSTRICKS.STY
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_TEX_1OF2 80 PSTRICKS.TEX (in 2 parts)
PSTRICKS.PSTRICKS_TEX_2OF2 71
PSTRICKS.TVZ-HAX_STY 33 TVZ-HAX.STY
Approximate total blocks in full PSTRICKS package = 1,145
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Date: Fri, 01 May 92 20:39:45 -0500
From: abw@edu.bu.bucrsb
Subject: TeXhax Digest V92 #007
Not a submission, but just a cheery "welcome back" to TeXhax in its
new home in Blighty. May you prosper!
| Al B. Wesolowsky abw@bucrsb.bu.edu or arc9arn@buacca.bu.edu |
| Managing Editor, Journal of Field Archaeology, Boston University |
| 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 (617) 353-2357 |
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Date: Wed, 06 May 92 11:45:13 -0800
From: Darrell Long
Subject: Euler LaTeX style?
Does anyone have an Euler LaTeX style? I'd like to use the fonts, but I'm not
ready to switch to AMSLaTeX.
Thanks, DL
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Date: Thu, 07 May 92 13:59:54 -0500
From: bdbryan@edu.clemson.eng (Ben Bryant)
Subject: PC version of tex
Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above?
I am a new-comer to the world of tex, and I would also like to
get some good documentation on the use of tex for thesis/book
writing. Can anyone recommend any good books? Thanks in advance.
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Date: Thu, 07 May 92 14:07:53 -0500
From: bdbryan@edu.clemson.eng (Ben Bryant)
Subject: Correction to PC version of tex
Does anyone know where I can get a freeware version of the above?
I am a new-comer to the world of tex, and I would also like to
get some good documentation on the use of tex for thesis/book
writing. Can anyone recommend any good books? Thanks in advance.
I need to correct the above address to be
Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 07 May 92 16:17:00 -0500
From: "Dr. Jim Walker @CRL"
Subject: tfm files for postscript fonts
Could somebody tell me how (where) I can obtain the postscript tfm files,
so that I can use postscript fonts with dvips on my VaxStation.
Thanks,
Jim Walker
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Date: Thu, 07 May 92 21:15:40 -0100
From: Thomas-Martin Kruel
Subject: Re: Output from bibliographic databases services into (La)TeX ...
David Rhead asks about incorporating the output of bibliographic database
searches into (La)TeX via BibTeX.
What I know about is the program R2BIB from Rusty Wright, which converts the
REFER format used in UNIX environments into BibTeX format. The REFER format is
similar to most of the common formats of commercial citation manager, e.g.
SciMate. So it should be no greater problem to rewrite the program to handle
the desired input format.
Besides that, I have written two converters from CAS-Online and PHYS-Online
into REFER format. These in conjunction with R2BIB could be used to
incorporate at CAS-Online and PHYS-Online searches into your LaTeX document.
I do it this way for my thesis.
If one doesn't mind to rewrite the C sources one can easily write a direct
converter from CAS or PHYS into BibTeX.
If there is a general interest, I can put the stuff in public domain.
Hope this helps a bit,
Thomas.
- --
Thomas-Martin Kruel Institut f. Physikalische Chemie / Universitaet Wuerzburg
Marcusstr. 9-11, D-8700 Wuerzburg, Tel. +49 931 31579
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