TeXhax Digest Monday, October 7, 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 045
Moderators: Tiina Modisett and Pierre MacKay
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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
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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 17:37 EDT
From: Phil Hirschhorn <PHIRSCHHORN@LUCY.WELLESLEY.EDU>
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
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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
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1991 13:52 GMT
From: Peter Flynn <CBTS8001@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE>
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
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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
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 19:03:47 UCR
From: "Eduardo J. Piza" <EPIZA@UCRVM2>
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
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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
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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
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1991 16:06:37 CDT
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Subject: New version of SHADOW.STY available on FILESERV
Keywords: shadow.sty
Mauro Orlandini <ORLANDINI@HEAVAX.GSFC.NASA.GOV>, 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
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 91 11:20 -0300
From: Gus Gassmann <GASSMANN@EARTH.SBA.DAL.CA>
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}
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