UKTeX V89 #06 Friday 10 February 1989
PD BibTeX 0.99c for VMS
TeX on Apollo
Collecting driver information
Metafontery, RNOTOTEX
Availability of MSDOS versions of TEX
More on verbatim file listings
Editor Peter Abbott
The washington tape has been updated see the trailer for details. It has
been loaded into the archive into [public.unix_30_01_89]. For obvious
reasons I have removed the november set.
This maybe the second copy of this weeks issue, the system folded in the
middle of the distribution and I cannot tell what was lost.
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #07
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V2N6
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From: Don Hosek <DHOSEK@EARN.YMIR>
Subject: PD BibTeX 0.99c for VMS
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I sent a copy of the files for my change file (derived from work by Nelson
Beebe derived from work by Jerry Leichter) for BibTeX to someone at RMCS who
said that they would put it up on the archive. Features include
o CLD interface.
o stat and trace options available via DCL switches
o miscellaneous problems with earlier implementations fixed.
This is the beginning of the "HMCTeX" project, which will eventually result in
a complete set of change files for all TeX- and MF-ware (and TeX & MF too, of
course :-)) driven through the CLI. Contributions of code are welcome... please
send them to me at U33297@Uicvm.Uic.Edu (internet) or U33297@Uicvm (bitnet).
The BibTeX change file (date 12/8/88) is the only publicly released HMCTeX
program currently available.
-dh
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm>
Subject: TeX on Apollo
TeX and Metafont compile normally on an Apollo, if one uses the 'web2c'
TeX translation into C, according to the README. So all the personwho
wanted a setup for his Apollo need do is acquire a recent Unix TeX Tape
and proceed as normal. There is a X previewer in the standard distribution,
and mention of a special 'dviapollo' but i am not sure if this is in the
directories or not.
so far as I am aware, the C translation of TeX which is the standard Unix
distribution method works on all normal Unix machines. It compiles on
our Masscomp and David Osborne's Clan, for instance, neither of which
are mainstream. It also likes System V, unlike the Pascal versions (well, likes
is perhaps the wrong, who 'likes' System V?, but it tolerates the beast).
sebastian rahtz, computer science, southampton
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From: Don Hosek <U33297@EARN.UICVM>
Subject: Collecting driver information
cc: DHOSEK@EARN.YMIR
Looks like it's about that time again...
If you're using TeX, you most likely are using it with a device driver
of some sort (unless you're very strange). If you can identify the source
of any of your device drivers/previewers please send me a note listing
1) The computer it runs on
2) the printer/display it drives
3) where it came from.
4) frequently I'm asked to comment on the utility of various drivers,
so if you could supply me with some of your *opinions* on the driver
I'd appreciate it.
If you distribute drivers, I would appreciate the following information:
1) a list of drivers that you distribute with the information listed
above. I will send you a follow-up note asking for more detail, plus
a listing of what I currently have.
2) all the ways to contact you that are acceptable (viz e-mail, postal
mail, phone, telex, etc.)
3) information on obtaining the programs (from FTP, file servers, on
tape or disk etc.) and costs.
4) support for anything you sell/give away
5) other sources for obtaining your drivers (commercial vendors, etc.)
6) anything else that may be of interest.
If you have access to TUGboat, I would appreciate it if you could look at
the device driver listings in the most recent issue of TUGboat you can get
and let me know about any errors/omissions.
Addresses for replying to me are:
Internet: U33297@Uicvm.Uic.Edu
Bitnet: U33297@Uicvm.Bitnet
Dhosek@Ymir.Bitnet
Uucp: dhosek@jarthur.claremont.edu
dhosek@jarthur.UUCP
USMail: 3916 Elmwood
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-dh
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From: R Fairbairns <rf@uk.ac.cam.cl>
Subject: Metafontery, RNOTOTEX
Message-ID: <8902081338.aa23013@scaup.Cl.Cam.AC.UK>
First, about a discussion that went on the recent past about logos in Metafont:
I have also programmed my firm's logo (pretty geometrical-looking, but not
terribly easy in practice), and there is, indeed, no Meta-ness about the
definition. However, as I came into the factory the other day, I noticed that
the logo etched into the glass of the front door (about 5' high!) has a subtly
different design to that used on letterheads, etc! Oh dearie me: should I
Meta-icise my design?
Second, I've seen reference to work that's been done on implementing `proper'
Metafont versions of the CMR fonts at the intermediate \magstep s (thus
providing a CMR11, etc.). I believe the work was documented in TUGboat, so
that in principle I could go and find the copy; however, this seems a bit daft,
as there must be electronic copies somewhere. Are they in the archive (and
I've failed to recognise them), or does anyone know where they can be got?
Finally, about the DECUS `RNOTOTEX' (or some such name) program. Since this is
a PD program, is there a chance that someone who has it from a DECUS tape could
stick it in the archive (Peter permitting, of course!). For the likes of me,
that'ld be much preferable to acquiring the entire DECUS TeX tape for this one
program....
Robin Fairbairns Tel: 0223 420414
Laser Scan Laboratories Fax: 0223 420044
Science Park Email: rf@uk.ac.cam.cl (Janet)
Milton Road (courtesy of Cambridge
Cambridge, CB4 4FY University Computer Laboratory)
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Date: 8 Feb 1989 17:19:17-GMT
From: C.NEILSON@uk.ac.city <sf389@uk.ac.city>
Subject: Availability of MSDOS versions of TEX
Can you give me any information on DOS TEX
(Electronetics, Inc, 119 Jackrabbit Run, Round Rock, TX 78664 or
on any other available version of tex running on MSDOS. I have also
heard mention of TURBOTEX and MICROTEX. Can you give any advise on
running tex on AT PCs) within an academic department.
Any information on getting TEX and its updates would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Date: 9-FEB-1989 18:36:06 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: More on verbatim file listings
Sender: JANET"CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX" <CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX>
% Here is a version of Adrian's VERBATIM.STY, for inputting whole files
% verbatim, which is "more LaTeX-like" in that it uses the actual LaTeX
% macros which set up the `verbatim' environment.
%
% As a matter of interest, it is much nicer for TeX if you input large
% quantities of "verbatim material" from an "external file" rather than by use
% of the `verbatim' environment (i.e. putting the material in the main input
% file. This is because this environment, in common with most (but not all)
% other "verbatim macros", makes the whole of the "vebatim material" a macro
% argument and therefore eats up TeTeX's internal memory.
%
% Chris Rowley
%
% --- V E R B A T I M F I L E S . S T Y
%
% --- This LaTeX style-file defines two user-callable macros:
% --- \verbatimfile{<filename>} for verbatim inclusion of a file
% --- \verbatimlisting{<filename>} for verbatim inclusion with line numbers
%
% --- The macros are based on those distributed with Sunil Podar's
% --- `EPIC.STY' macro package, attributed to Tim Morgan,
% --- modified to keep internal macros internal by Adrian F. Clark,
% --- alien@uk.ac.essex.ese
% --- ---and further latexification by Chris Rowley,
% --- ca_rowley@uk.ac.open.acs.vax.
%
% --- Note that the precise layout of line breaks in this file is important!
%
\def\verbatimfile#1{\begingroup
\@verbatim \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces
\input#1 \endgroup
}
\newcounter{lineno}
\def\verbatimlisting#1{\setcounter{lineno}{0}%
\begingroup \@verbatim \frenchspacing \@vobeyspaces \parindent=20pt
\everypar{\stepcounter{lineno}\llap{\thelineno\ \ }}\input#1
\endgroup
}
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