TeXhax Digest   Friday, August 12, 1988   Volume 88 : Issue 71
 
Moderator: Malcolm Brown
 
Today's Topics:
 
          How high is this box (\ht\boxno seems to be wrong)
                     TeX inputs and formats paths
                Re:  Problems with Problems (solution)
                             Boxed tables
                         dirty tricks wanted
                  vertical sentences in the margin?
                 commontex 2.9 patches (non-official)
         Standardizing (naming) tfms derived from Adobe afms
         RE: Problems combining \tt, \obeyspaces, and \halign
                                DosTeX
                             Glue problem
             Printer drivers that supports tpic specials
                        DVI previewer for VMS
                          DosTeX limitations
                    LATEX style for IEEE CS book?
                      DVI Previewer for IBM-PC's
 
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Date: 29 Jul 88 10:47:00 MST
From: <drstrip@sandia-2.arpa>
Subject: How high is this box (\ht\boxno seems to be wrong)
 
I am trying to build a strut to force TeX to build a large delimiter
to match the height of the corresponding delimiter that closes an
equation split over two lines. I build a vbox with the what seems to be
stuff of the appropriate height, then try to use its dimensions. These
dimensions don't seem to be right. Here's a code fragment (plain TeX)
\newbox\eqnbox
\setbox\eqnbox=\hbox{\hsize=100pt \vbox{ {$${ M\over F} $$}}}
\showbox\eqnbox
\newdimen\eqnht \newdimen\eqndp
\dimen\eqnht=\ht\eqnbox \dimen\eqndp=\dp\eqndp
\showthe\dimen\eqnht \showthe\dimen\eqndp
\end
 
If you execute this, you get height and depth of 6.0006 pts.
This is, I believe, the height of the F and M, without any allowance for
the line in the fraction, or the space around the line, both of which I
would think should be included.
What I am I doing wrong? How do I get the proper height and depth.
 
David Strip
drstrip@sandia-2.arpa
 
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 14:49:19 EDT
From: Charles R. Martin <crm@summanulla.mc.duke.edu>
Subject: TeX inputs and formats paths
 
When I compile TeX in C on our Sun4, it doesn't seem to handle the
preset paths.h paths for inputs and formats, ie, I have to define
TEXINPUTS and TEXFORMATS in my environment to make virtex &plain work.
Is this a known problem and if so, it there a known fix?
 
I have TeX in C from a tape issued within the last month.
 
 
                        Charlie Martin
                        (...!mcnc!duke!crm, crm@summanulla.mc.duke.edu)
 
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 12:44 PDT
From: MCGLK%MAX.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re:  Problems with Problems (solution)
 
Regarding LaTeX items I wanted to put a star in front of, like so:
 
          ...
      12. problem problem problem problem problem ...
     *13. problem problem problem problem problem ...
      14. problem problem problem problem problem ...
          ...
 
I found a solution, thanks to the generous help of
"grunwald@m.cs.uiuc.edu", who first pointed out the niceties of
\csname...\endcsname to me; Donald Arseneau (ASND@TRIUMFCL), who
pointed out that I shouldn't be using \edef with the
\csname...\endcsname; and George Greenwade (BED_GDG@SHSU), who
enclosed a very useful (and educational) macro package that could put
anything you wanted before the enumeration at any level with ease.  I
recommend Mr Greenwade's package to anyone who needs to use lots of
enumeration with special symbols.  I had a smaller solution (and
smaller lists) in mind, however.
 
I started with the following:
 
     \catcode`@=11
     \edef\itemstar#1{\item[{\bf *}\theenum\romannumeral\@enumdepth]
                      \advance\enum\romannumeral\@enumdepth by 1}
     \catcode`@=12
 
and, after implementing the suggestions, finally wound up with
 
     %   \itemstar is the same as \item, but puts a * in front of the number.
 
     \catcode`@=11
     \def\itemstar{\advance
          \csname c@enum\romannumeral\@enumdepth\endcsname \@ne
          \item [{\bf *}\csname labelenum\romannumeral\@enumdepth\endcsname]
     }
     \catcode`@=12
 
First off, the \advance has to take place before the \item.  The
counter itself is not in \enumi..\enumiv, it's in \c@enumi..\c@enumiv.
\theenum... translates to "1", "b" and so on; \labelenum... translates
to "1.", "(b)" and so on.
 
Thanks so much.
 
                              --Ken McGlothlen
                                mcglk@max.acs.washington.edu
                                mcglk@max.bitnet
 
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 17:10:33 PDT
From: darrell%cs@ucsd.edu (Darrell Long)
Subject: Boxed tables
 
I'm having some trouble with boxed tables.  Using the TeXbook as an example I
create a table with 5 columns.  SOME of the time, the right side has tiny bumps
caused by the \hrule's going through the \vrule's.  As I said, this only
happens SOME of the time.  The bumps are only a few pixels in size, but  they
are visible.
 
My guess is that either Common TeX 2.9, or dvi2ps doesn't do its arithmentic
very carefully.  Has anyone else had this problem?
 
DL
 
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From: oravax!calypso.UUCP!norman@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 88 14:51:11 EDT
Subject:  dirty tricks wanted
 
Appendix D talks about list macros, and shows how to remove the rightmost
element of a list provided that list items contain no expandable tokens.
Does anyone have a macro that will remove the rightmost item, even if
expandable tokens are present?  I've thought of doing this by reversing
the list, removing the leftmost element, and reversing again, but maybe
someone else has come up with something better?
 
Norman Ramsey
norman%oravax.uucp@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu
 
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 15:48:26 EDT
From: Luigi PERROTTA  <hellion@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: vertical sentences in the margin?
 
Help! ....
 
A Question to all Texperts:
 
Is it possible to get TeX to write a sentence in reverse
veritcal fashion in a margin?  What I mean is, after Tex has
finished formating a page, I want (...need..) to be able to
get Tex to start writing a sentence from the bottom of the page
up with the base of the characters  touching the
first colum of text.  Preferable in left  margin.
 
Is there some way to trick TeX into flipping the page around(90 degrees
 clockwise)  and
get it to start writing again thinking that it is a the start of a new
page???????
 
Browsing though back issues of TeXhax, I noticed a partial
solution in vol51.88 (text rotation) but alas, it would take
some time before finding a postscript laser.  Our installation
only has imagen laser printers....
 
I have been trying to understand The Chapters on horizontal &
vertical mode in The Tex book by Knuth but it is going slowly.
I figure that if it was possible , Knuth would of demonstrated
it in his book.
 
If anybody knows of such a macro or style file in existence, or
any clues on how to go about it, I would be very much interested in
knowing about it.  Please email back to me  for we have been
temporarily cut off from receiving news.
 
                             Thanks ........
 
                             -luigi perrotta
                              hellion@opus.cs.mcgill.ca
 
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 14:45:08 PDT
From: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu (Conrad Kwok)
Subject: commontex 2.9 patches (non-official)
 
There are a number of minor problems in commontex 2.9 but none of
them affects the DVI output. Some of the patches have been posted
before but all of them are included here for completeness.
 
The first change is to fix the banner message in preloaded version.
The fix is posted by Mark Davies a few weeks ago.
 
The second one is remove "b" (binary mode) in fopen. I think this
is first posted by Dirk Grunwald but I am sure all people trying
to compile commontex 2.9 on Ultrix will find this out.
 
In char.c, a non-standard escape sequence is used. FORM_FEED
character in C should be specified as \f but \l (%L?) is used in
original file.
 
The next one is actually not a bug. I did that to get around a
SUN CC compiler bug. The change is in eval.c
 
The last one is related to the exit code. In original TeX, it
will not exit with a non-zero exit code if only warning occured
(e.g. underfull box, ... ). In commontex 2.9, it exits with an
error code 1. I changed commontex to exit with non-zero error
code only if more serious errors occured.
 
Here are the patches
 
--Conrad
internet: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu
csnet: kwok@ucd.csnet
csnet: kwok%iris.ucdavis.edu@csnet.relay
uucp: {ucbvax, uunet, ... }!ucdavis!iris!kwok
 
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diff -b -c orig/char.c ./char.c
*** orig/char.c Sun Mar 13 17:53:22 1988
--- ./char.c    Sun Jul 31 10:10:41 1988
***************
*** 119,125
          xchr[i] = ' ';
      for (i = 0200; i <= 0377; incr(i))
          xchr[i] = i;
!     xchr[FORM_FEED] =  '\l';
      xchr[TAB] = '\t';
      xchr[NUL] = '\0';
      for (i = FIRST_TEXT_CHAR; i <= LAST_TEXT_CHAR; incr(i))
 
--- 119,125 -----
          xchr[i] = ' ';
      for (i = 0200; i <= 0377; incr(i))
          xchr[i] = i;
!     xchr[FORM_FEED] =  '\f';
      xchr[TAB] = '\t';
      xchr[NUL] = '\0';
      for (i = FIRST_TEXT_CHAR; i <= LAST_TEXT_CHAR; incr(i))
diff -b -c orig/eval.c ./eval.c
*** orig/eval.c Sun Mar 13 17:53:40 1988
--- ./eval.c    Mon Jul  4 10:17:08 1988
***************
*** 50,55
  main_control ()
  {
      byte    c;
      fnt     f;
      qqqq    i;
      qqqq    j;
 
--- 50,56 -----
  main_control ()
  {
      byte    c;
+     int     intofc;
      fnt     f;
      qqqq    i;
      qqqq    j;
***************
*** 543,549
      l = qi(c);
 
  main_loop_3:
!     if (c < 256) {
          s = sf_code(c);
          if (s == 1000)
              space_factor = 1000;
 
--- 544,550 -----
      l = qi(c);
 
  main_loop_3:
!     intofc = c; if ( intofc < 256) {
          s = sf_code(c);
          if (s == 1000)
              space_factor = 1000;
diff -b -c orig/io.c ./io.c
*** orig/io.c   Sun Mar 13 17:53:54 1988
--- ./io.c      Thu Jun 30 17:09:18 1988
***************
*** 39,45
  b_open_in ()
  {
      if (test_access(READ_ACCESS, FONT_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "rb"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
 
--- 39,45 -----
  b_open_in ()
  {
      if (test_access(READ_ACCESS, FONT_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "r"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
***************
*** 47,53
  b_open_out ()
  {
      if (test_access(WRITE_ACCESS, NO_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "wb"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
 
--- 47,53 -----
  b_open_out ()
  {
      if (test_access(WRITE_ACCESS, NO_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "w"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
***************
*** 55,61
  w_open_in ()
  {
      if (test_access(READ_ACCESS, FORMAT_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "rb"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
 
--- 55,61 -----
  w_open_in ()
  {
      if (test_access(READ_ACCESS, FORMAT_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "r"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
***************
*** 63,69
  w_open_out ()
  {
      if (test_access(WRITE_ACCESS, NO_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "wb"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
 
--- 63,69 -----
  w_open_out ()
  {
      if (test_access(WRITE_ACCESS, NO_FILE_PATH))
!         return (fopen(name_of_file, "w"));
      return NULL;
  }
 
diff -c orig/tex.c ./tex.c
*** orig/tex.c  Sun Mar 13 17:54:14 1988
--- ./tex.c     Sun Jul 31 11:50:49 1988
***************
*** 53,59
      if (ready_already != 314159)
          initialize();
      ready_already = 314159;
-     print(banner);
      selector = TERM_ONLY;
      if (format_ident == 0)
          print(" (no format preloaded)");
 
--- 53,58 -----
      if (ready_already != 314159)
          initialize();
      ready_already = 314159;
      selector = TERM_ONLY;
      tally = 0; term_offset = 0; file_offset = 0;
      print(banner);
***************
*** 55,60
      ready_already = 314159;
      print(banner);
      selector = TERM_ONLY;
      if (format_ident == 0)
          print(" (no format preloaded)");
      else print_str(format_ident);
 
--- 54,61 -----
          initialize();
      ready_already = 314159;
      selector = TERM_ONLY;
+     tally = 0; term_offset = 0; file_offset = 0;
+     print(banner);
      if (format_ident == 0)
          print(" (no format preloaded)");
      else print_str(format_ident);
***************
*** 287,293
      }
      print_ln();
      if (edit) call_edit();
!     exit(history);
  }
 
  initialize ()
 
--- 288,298 -----
      }
      print_ln();
      if (edit) call_edit();
!     if (history == SPOTLESS || history == WARNING_ISSUED) {
!         exit(SPOTLESS);
!     } else {
!       exit(history);
!     }
  }
 
  initialize ()
 
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 23:32:11 PDT
From: mackay@june.cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Subject: Standardizing (naming) tfms derived from Adobe afms
 
Font names for fonts in MF ought to show their origin.  Moreover, there
are many names thatwe really should not use because they are owned by
Stempel-Haas or Monotype, or some other commercial group.  ATypI issues
a registry, and it is probably a good idea to look through that before
appropriating a name.
 
On the other hand, even a trivial change can apparently make it ok to
grab a name that is registered with a font supplier.  I am not sure how
I feel about this.  On the one hand, the restrictions imposed by the
typesetting industry are often paranoid and self-defeating, but on the
other, fonts are harder to protect than just about any commercially
valuable product, so maybe the paranoia is justified.
 
Personal names from the classic past are beyond restriction.  Baskerville,
Caslon, Garamond, etc., are protected only by the courtesy of the people
who use these names. But I can't remember what the status of a name like
Bembo would be.  Bembo was real enough, but he wasn't a type designer
(He was passionately, but cautiously in love with Lucrezia Borgia, among
other things)  I suspect that Bembo as a typeface name is actually the
property of someone.
 
Anyway, the way to distinguish a MF font is to name it as Computer Modern
is named.  "Computer Times" would do, or "Metafont TImes" or even
"MF Times".  The information conveyed by such a naming convention is
actually important, since METAFONT implies not a single face, but a
family of related faces in any style.  That is really rather a novelty,
and ought to be advertised.
 
 
Email:  mackay@june.cs.washington.edu           Pierre A. MacKay
Smail:  Northwest Computing Support Group       TUG Site Coordinator for
        Lewis Hall, Mail Stop DW10              Unix-flavored TeX
        University of Washington
        Seattle, WA 98195
        (206) 543-6259
 
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Date:     Tue, 2 Aug 88 14:06 N
From: <GAVIN%HNYMPI52.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> (Gavin Burnage)
Subject:  RE: Problems combining \tt, \obeyspaces, and \halign
 
\obeyspaces, as you might expect, means that spaces typed become spaces
printed -- even if they were inserted for the noblest of reasons (program
readability, for example). The starkness of this simple truth makes me
wonder whether I ought not to be in Hawaii selling pencils for a living.
 
First correct answer down the line came from one Don Knuth. Thanks also
to the other de-goofers who got in touch: Ken Brown, Julian Bradfield and
David Lau.
 
>    Received: From STANFORD(MAILER) by HNYMPI52 with RSCS id 5665
>              for GAVIN@HNYMPI52; Mon, 25 Jul 88 19:26 N
>    Received: by Forsythe.Stanford.EDU; Mon, 25 Jul 88 10:32:25 PDT
>    Message-ID: <qI9pA@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
>    Date: 25 Jul 88  1025 PDT
>    From: Don Knuth <DEK@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
>    Subject: re: Problems combining \tt, \obeyspaces, and \halign
>    To:   GAVIN@HNYMPI52.BITNET
>
>    TeX is obeying the spaces you inserted before the \strut in the
>    preamble to your \halign. If you move that \strut to the previous
>    line, everything should work fine (unless the text contains the
>    character combinations !` or ?`, which give Spanish-style characters!).
>
>    (I don't usually have time to answer TeX questions, but I had an
>    extra few seconds this morning. I hope there are lots of other
>    people out there able to answer your query easily.)
 
 
Gavin Burnage                                             Reply to:
Centre for Lexical Information                      GAVIN@HNYMPI52.BITNET
University of Nijmegen
Wundtlaan 1                                                 Tel:
6525 XD  NIJMEGEN                                   31-(0)80-515972 (work)
The Netherlands
 
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Date: Tuesday, 2 Aug 1988 15:27:47 NZT
From: CCC032U@aucc1
Subject: DosTeX
 
I have just received a copy of DosTeX ($US75)  for MS/PC Dos machines.
We are evaluating it for possible use around campus.
 
I will now give some first impressions: Installation was easy ( you need 4.5MB
of disk). You just create a directory and load first floppy and type A:install.
 
It comes with preloaded versions of both LaTeX and AmsTeX. I have tried LaTeX
and it processed a 14 page document in under 2 mins on an 8Mhz AT.
 
The preloaded versions need 599300 bytes of free memory. I had room for Dosedit
and buffer=10 and thats it!
It would be painful to use if you are regularly using PC for other jobs and
impossible if you have network software or any thing else that must be resident
. My other complaint is that the set of PK fonts is incomplete. I tried to
use their dvi2herc to preview may LaTeX doucment but it died because it could
not find cmr9.120pk ( the standard size for footnotes in a 10pt article).
As it happens I have access to a full set of PK fonts on our vax and will
try kermiting them down to the PC soon.
I also had problems with dvi2herc becase it ran out of file buffers, so
if you have a reasonable number of fonts then you will need to set the
config.sys parameters buffers and file up. This of course uses up more memory.
 
There is also a dvieps which I have not yet tried (it was labeled experimental)
I think I would rather use Nelson Beebes one. There were no drivers for Laser
Printers.
 
I also have TurboTeX and hope to be evaluating that shortly.
 
Russell Fulton
 
Internet: RJ.Fulton@aukuni.ac.nz
 
Postal:   Computer Centre
          University of Auckland
          Private Bag
          Auckland, New Zealand
'Phone:   +64 9 737-999 x 8955  ( GMT -12 )
 
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Date: Tue,  2 Aug 88 15:17:45 PST
From: Peter Scott <PJS@grouch.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Subject: Glue problem
 
I had no reply to this when I submitted it a couple of months ago, so here
goes again:
 
I'm having a problem with glue that's just got me beat.  Consider the following
fragment of TeX code:
 
\catcode`\@=11
\def\rcases#1{\left.\,\vcenter{\normalbaselines\m@th%
\ialign{$##\hfil$&\quad##\hfil\crcr#1\crcr}}\right\}}
\def\scases#1{\left.\vcenter{\normalbaselines\m@th%
\ialign{$##\hfil$&\quad##\hfil\crcr#1\crcr}}\right\}}
\catcode`\@=12
 
\setbox4=\hbox to2in{\vbox{$\rcases{\hbox{Send 3 blocks}\cr
\hbox{Pause}\cr}\hbox{Repeat 8 times}$}\hss}
\setbox5=\hbox to2in{\vbox{$\rcases{\hbox{Send 3 blocks}\cr
\hbox{Pause}\cr}\hbox{Repeat 8 times}$}\hss}
\setbox6=\hbox to2in{\vbox{$\scases{\box5\cr}\hbox{Repeat 59 times}$}\hss}
 
$$\vtop{\hbox{Repeat}\hbox{10 times}}\cases{
\box4\cr
\noalign{\smallskip}
\box6\cr
}$$
 
\rcases is like \cases, except the brace is on the right.  \scases
is like \rcases, except it omits the \, (thinmuskip), for reasons
which will become apparent.
 
The result I wanted was:
 
                   / Send 3 blocks \ Repeat 8 times
                  |  Pause         /
        Repeat   <
        10 times  |  Send 3 blocks \ Repeat 8 times \ Repeat 59 times
                   \ Pause         /                /
 
                     %%%%%%%%%%%%%
Actually the text of these two blocks was slightly different in the memo
I wanted to create, but things are complicated enough as it is.
 
The problem is that the lower block ("Send 3 blocks/Pause") comes out
shifted ever so slightly to the right of the one above.  I thought I had
fixed it by using \scases instead of \rcases, but no, it still sticks in
a bit.  I used \tracingall, and tried to figure out where the thinmuskip
glue that's still in there is getting stretched by the wrong amount, but
I either got lost in the nest of boxes or it looked fine.
 
HELP!!!!
 
Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)
 
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 16:31:34 PDT
From: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu (Conrad Kwok)
Subject: Printer drivers that supports tpic specials
 
Recently I wrote a LaTeX macro packages that may produce tpic
specials.  Many people asked me where they can find a printer
driver that can handle the tpic specials.  The only three
programs I know are iptex, texx and texsun.  But I am sure
there are many more printer drivers out there that can handle them.
 
So I decided to perform a survey on all printer drivers and
previewers that can handle the tpic specials.  If anyone knows
any public domain programs, shareware programs or commerical
products that do that, please send me a e-mail.  Please also
include information about where the programs can be found.  I
shall summarized them and report the result later.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
--Conrad
internet: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu
csnet: kwok@ucd.csnet
csnet: kwok%iris.ucdavis.edu@csnet.relay
uucp: {ucbvax, uunet, ... }!ucdavis!iris!kwok
 
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 88 09:03:33 edt
From: rcb@rti.rti.org (Randy Buckland)
Subject: DVI previewer for VMS
 
In a recent message listing DVI previewers for VMS, the version I wrote
was not mentioned. So here are the details.
 
This is a previewer for DVI files that runs on a VMS vaxstation. It uses
the PK format font files and also has support for the TPIC specials
for graphics. It is written in Ada, but the compiled object is available
for those that don't have Ada. It can be gotten by anonymous FTP from
argon.rti.org [128.109.139.64]. If any of the major archive sites would
like to make a copy available for ftp also, feel free.
 
Oh, I almost forgot. It's free. No begging. No shareware. No threats
of dire consequences if used without permission. It is *NOT* public domain.
It is copyrighted, but the copyright states that it may be redistributed
freely.
 
Randy Buckland
Research Triangle Institute
rcb@rti.rti.org
 
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 88 11:25:03 CDT
From: beihl%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@mcc.com (Gary Beihl)
Subject: DosTeX limitations
 
The preloaded versions are indeed memory hogs.  The next release will
allow users to create preloaded versions with control over the size of
mem[] and font_info[] arrays.
 
A cmr9 (magstep0) .pk file for use with dvi2herc is part of the DosTeX
distribution.  Due to DOS name restrictions, it is named cmr9.pk and
located in a directory called FONTS\PK\120\ under the installation
directory.  Dvi2herc (like any other program using DOS file i/o) requires
an adequate FILES setting in config.sys.  I believe incrementing FILES
only consumes on the order of 50 bytes.  BUFFERS is a different story
(~500 bytes).  Dvi2herc now does subsampling of the Epson .pk files by
default (similiar to the texsun previewer for SUNs) and the screen
resolution fonts will disappear from the distribution shortly.
 
DosTeX's dvieps is almost completely derived from the corresponding
Beebe driver.  The only modification is swapping code for the output
bitmap.  At 11 x 216 x 240 = 570K, it's not tiny.  Laser drivers are
best obtained directly from the Beebe distribution.
 
Gary Beihl (Arpa address: beihl@mcc.com)
 
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 88 16:40:04 EDT
From: Allan H. Anderson <anderson@ll-vlsi.arpa>
Subject: LATEX style for IEEE CS book?
 
Does anyone have a LATEX style file for the IEEE Computer Society
6" x 9" book style? It is single column, headings at the left
margin, etc.
Thanks,
Allan Anderson
anderson@vlsi.ll.mit.edu
617-981-2615
 
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 88 11:41:07 CDT
From: mcdonald%uxe.cso.uiuc.edu@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (J.D. McDonald )
Subject: DVI Previewer for IBM-PC's
 
    I have written a public domain DVI file previewer for the IBM-PC based
on the series of drivers by Nelson Beebe at Utah. This program is
basically designed for the VGA or MCGA 480x640 monochrome mode. However,
it does work on EGA's, both color and monochrome, but the output is
stretched vertically a small amount. It uses either pk, gf or pxl
files. The output really looks quite nice. Given enough fonts you
can get output any size you wish - it is actually readable even if
you put a whole page on the screen (on a VGA or MCGA).
    Eventually I will send this to Utah, but Beebe is out of town
so I can't do it just yet. I have put the files in a directory
for anonymous ftp on our VAX. The address is b.scs.uiuc.edu, or,
as many name servers choke on this name (which IS correct),
128.174.90.2 .  Included are the executable (arc'ed), a documentation
file (which you MUST read!), a font substitution file, and the part of
the source files that I have written or modified. Also included are
some fonts. You will need to get most of the fonts from science.utah.edu.
I suggest getting all the fonts up through size 208 d.p.i., but
you really don't need all fonts for sizes bigger than 145 d.p.i.
The way the program is presently constituted, it uses ONLY fonts
in the 300 d.p.i. magstep series - using only one series makes it
run a lot faster. This can be changed very easily by recompiling.
 
Doug McDonald
 
mcdonald@uiucuxe
or
mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
 
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