UKTeX V89 #16 Friday 28 April 1989
IMPORTANT - Changes in the format of the Aston Archive.
3rd UKTUG Meeting
MF problem
Re: METAFONT Help
Chinese and Korean coding schemes
redefining \rm
Filters for the Apple Laserwriter
UKTeX V89 #15
Saving z pairs with MF
Material for (La)TeX courses
Wayne Sullivan's CDVI TeX previewer for the IBM PC
Who is going to get OzTeX for the Macintosh ?
Jacques Goldberg
Just starting with TeX
Re: Mike Piff's book-bug.
Skipping characters at high speed with MF
Editor Peter Abbott
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #28
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N2
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Subject: IMPORTANT - Changes in the format of the Aston Archive.
Aston Archive Format
During May there will be a number of changes in the way information is
stored in the Aston Archive. The top level will be labelled
TEX-ARCHIVE
and the last 30 days files etc will refer to this structure. Access to
files via
PUBLIC
will be available for a limited period. Files will disappear from PUBLIC
during MAY. Not all files are currently available in the new archive but
they will be moved during May.
Also note the address for the mail server is now
texserver@uk.ac.aston.tex (UK format)
or
texserver@tex.aston.ac.uk (rest of the world)
As a reminder to get help on using the mail server please send a message to
texserver@uk.ac.aston.tex (UK format)
and include in the message the following lines all starting in column 1
---
return address in UK format
help
Peter Abbott
(on behalf of the Archivists)
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Subject: 3rd UKTUG Meeting
UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG
The 3rd UKTUG meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday July 5 1989 at Aston University, Birmingham
The proposed theme is
`Fonts, Design and Use'
(4th meeting early october in London)
UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG UKTUG
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From: Don Hosek <U33297@EDU.UIC.UICVM>
Subject: MF problem
I would like to define macros beginjchar and endjchar such that if
a certain condition is not met in beginjchar, everything up to endjchar
will be skipped at high speed. My original approach of
def beginjchar (...) =
...
if not skipit:
...
enddef;
def endjchar =
...
fi
enddef;
Will not work since while MF is skipping tokens at high speed it skips
right over endjchar, missing its fi. With TeX I could define some
macro \def\foo#1\endjchar{} that would do, more or less what I want
but I'm not sure how I could do this with MF.
Any suggestions?
-dh
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Subject: Re: METAFONT Help
Reply-To: ken@edu.rochester.cs
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 14 Apr 89 12:13:16 +0000.
<24487.8904141213@mupsy.psy.man.ac.uk>
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 21:39:46 -0400
From: Ken Yap <ken@edu.rochester.cs>
> I have a VMS distribution of V2.9 and a large number of PXL files left
> over from someone else's efforts with TeX in the past. Unfortunately,
> new LATEX macros (I presume) require some fonts for which I have TFM
> files but no PXL files. (I need these for DVI2PS.)
>
> According to my understanding of the documentation MF will output GF
> format fonts (given TFM input), and I can then use GFtoPXL to get PXL
^ you meant MF I think
> files. However, with the necessary fonts, such as CMBX10, MF crashes
> after processing "A [65]" with an internal memory exhaustion error.
I couldn't be sure I had the right return address so I've cc'ed
UKTeX. Submitters to the list should specify return addresses
in the header or signature so that replies can get to them.
Assuming you didn't really try to feed a binary TFM file to MF,
the next thing to look for is a *.2602gf file in your directory.
This is always a sign that you are in proof mode and you should
specify the correct mode_def for your device in the command line.
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From: Don Hosek <U33297@EDU.UIC.UICVM>
Subject: Chinese and Korean coding schemes
Can anybody supply me with code tables for the Chinese and Korean national
character sets?
Thanks in advance
-dh
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Date: 24-APR-1989 10:25:49 GMT
From: RBAILEY@UK.AC.AFRC.RESB
Subject: redefining \rm
Sender: JANET"RBAILEY@UK.AC.AFRC.RESB" <RBAILEY@UK.AC.AFRC.RESB>
I am not surprised that redefining \rm has bad side-effects. If Malcolm
wants \rm to mean different things in different places, surely the
thing to do is
\newcommand{\malcolmrm}{\rm}
and then use \renewcommand to redefine \malcolmrm in some
environments.
Rosemary Bailey
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From: ctw@uk.ac.umist.cns
Message-Id: <4605.8904241051@merak>
Subject: Filters for the Apple Laserwriter
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 11:51:13 BST
X-Mailer: Elm [version 2.1 PL1]
I had one suggestion for producing a filter for the Apple laserwriter,
namely modify the Beebe driver. This I have done, the result is
extremely succesful.
For the workstation/X windows users among the TeX community the latest
version of texx (2.8) and the modified Beebe driver enable you to
print documents without ever coming out of the previewer!
Here are the patches to main.h to allow use as a filter. I am afraid
it is a horrible hack but it works.
sun# diff -rc2 main.h.old main.h
*** main.h.old Mon Apr 24 11:24:45 1989
--- main.h Thu Apr 20 15:09:19 1989
***************
*** 141,145 ****
register int file_args; /* count of file arguments */
!
(void)strcpy(g_progname, argv[0]); /* save program name */
--- 141,146 ----
register int file_args; /* count of file arguments */
! int filter = 0;
!
(void)strcpy(g_progname, argv[0]); /* save program name */
***************
*** 156,173 ****
#endif /* OS_UNIX */
for (k = 1; k < argc; ++k)
{
! if (*argv[k] == '-') /* -switch */
! (void)option(argv[k]);
}
- if (!quiet)
- {
- (void)fprintf(stderr,"[TeX82 DVI Translator Version %s]",VERSION_NO);
- NEWLINE(stderr);
- (void)fprintf(stderr,"[%s]",DEVICE_ID);
- NEWLINE(stderr);
- }
-
if (npage == 0) /* no page ranges given, make a large one */
{
--- 157,182 ----
#endif /* OS_UNIX */
+ /* Ensure we are not being called as a filter */
+
for (k = 1; k < argc; ++k)
+ if (strcmp(argv[k], "-h") == 0) filter++;
+
+ if (!filter)
{
! for (k = 1; k < argc; ++k)
! {
! if (*argv[k] == '-') /* -switch */
! (void)option(argv[k]);
! }
!
! if (!quiet)
! {
! (void)fprintf(stderr,"[TeX82 DVI Translator Version %s]",VERSION_NO);
! NEWLINE(stderr);
! (void)fprintf(stderr,"[%s]",DEVICE_ID);
! NEWLINE(stderr);
! }
}
if (npage == 0) /* no page ranges given, make a large one */
{
***************
*** 181,192 ****
file_args = 0;
! for (k = 1; k < argc; ++k)
{
! if (*argv[k] != '-') /* must be file argument */
{
! file_args++;
! (void)dvifile(argc,argv,argv[k]);
}
}
#if OS_UNIX
--- 190,205 ----
file_args = 0;
! if (!filter)
{
! for (k = 1; k < argc; ++k)
{
! if (*argv[k] != '-') /* must be file argument */
! {
! file_args++;
! (void)dvifile(argc,argv,argv[k]);
! }
}
}
+
I also changed dvialw.c to cope with approximately A4 paper. I would
be interested to know whether anybody else has done this.
#if OS_UNIX
sun# diff -rc2 dvaialw.c.old divialw.c
*** dvialw.c.old Mon Apr 24 11:24:36 1989
--- dvialw.c Mon Apr 24 10:54:20 1989
***************
*** 293,297 ****
--- 293,301 ----
#define YDPI 300 /* vertical dots/inch */
+ #ifdef A4
+ #define YPSIZE 12 /* vertical paper size in inches */
+ #else
#define YPSIZE 11 /* vertical paper size in inches */
+ #endif
#define YSIZE (YDPI*YPSIZE) /* number of vertical dots */
***************
*** 532,537 ****
OUT_IMMEDIATE; /* need immediate output here */
OUT_STR("%!\n"); /* magical file header */
OUT_STR("%%Dimensions: 0 0 612 792\n"); /* 8.5 x 11 inch page size */
!
OUT_STR("%%Title: ");
OUT_STR(argv[0]); /* start of our command line */
--- 536,544 ----
OUT_IMMEDIATE; /* need immediate output here */
OUT_STR("%!\n"); /* magical file header */
+ #ifdef A4
+ OUT_STR("%%Dimensions: 0 0 597 845\n"); /* 8.25 x 11.7 inch page size */
+ #else
OUT_STR("%%Dimensions: 0 0 612 792\n"); /* 8.5 x 11 inch page size */
! #endif
OUT_STR("%%Title: ");
OUT_STR(argv[0]); /* start of our command line */
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In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@uk.ac.aston's message of 21-APR-1989 17:12:39 GMT <9556.8904211652@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: UKTeX V89 #15
Has anybody ever written a macro that would produce the equivalent of
\input using a subset of lines on a file? I'd like to input TeX
and verbatim input from a subset of a file and want to keep myself
from re-inventing the wheel.
Would Don mind saying WHY he wants to accomplish this apparently
obscure task? It seems to me to fall into the heading of tasks that
could be accomplished a lot more easily by allowing TeX access to the
operating system. All we need is a single new primitive which pokes a
named OS task and treats the output as if it came from a file, and all
problems like this would be easily solved. Whoever is working TeX-Two
(and I hereby claim to have invented this name) should add it to their
list. Whats the betting, incidentally, that TeX-Two will come out of
Europe, not America?
Sebastian Rahtz
PS don't bother to tell me that not all OSes would permit opening a
sub task on the fly. I know the great attraction of TeX is its `lowest
common denominator' status, but someday we have to raise the
assumptions that it makes about its host machine and OS
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From: Don Hosek <U33297@EDU.UIC.UICVM>
Subject: Saving z pairs with MF
In my Oriental fonts project, I have decided that it would be reasonable
to use the same set of suffixes in different radicals of the same character.
(this will simplify top level coding).
I am able to "renew" some z.? by using an assignment with whatever, but
I have been unable to figure out how best to be able to restore old
values when they are later needed. Enclosing the whole mess with
begingroup ... endgroup and using save x,y doesn't work since this loses
ALL values of x and y. Furthermore, I can't say save x101,y101 (or save
z101) since each of those consists of more than one token.
Any ideas?
-dh
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From : Nico Poppelier (Poppelier@Hutruu51.Bitnet)
Date : April 25, 1989
Subject: Material for (La)TeX courses
In the end of June this year the Dutch TeX users group will organize
its first (mini) conference. Part of the program will consists of
courses in LaTeX (introduction), LaTeX document styles, and METAFONT.
Since there have been many similar courses at both international and
European TeX meetings it would be a case of re-inventing the wheel if
people here would develop their teaching material from scratch.
Would it be possible to receive material from people involved in
similar courses at the Exeter meeting,
- 1. in English
- 2. TeX `coded'
that we can use for our conference this summer?
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Date: Tue, 25 APR 89 13:45:31 BST
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: Wayne Sullivan's CDVI TeX previewer for the IBM PC
Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" <TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Message-Id: <000002D9_00192790.00923CE94B5EB420$29_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Originally-to: UKTEX
Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.2 (27-Oct-1988)
I'm afraid that I misinformed UKTeX readers about CDVI v1.2 in UKTeX v89 #15.
Version 1.2 supports only the basic 16 TeX fonts, not the LaTeX fonts. Those
fonts are:
cmr10 cmr7 cmr5
cmbx10 cmbx7 cmr7
cmmi10 cmmi7 cmmi5
cmsy10 cmsy7 cmsy5
cmsl10
cmti10
cmtt10
cmex10
If you want support for LaTeX fonts, you'll need to buy version 2.0.
Niel Kempson
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Date: 25-APR-1989 15:10:55 GMT
From: EETFD@UK.AC.STAFPOL.CR83
Subject: Who is going to get OzTeX for the Macintosh ?
I have received an number of updates from Andrew Trevorrow in Australia
reagarding the status of OzTeX for the Macintosh. Evidently it is finished
and is being documented (in TeX of course).
Has anyone in the UKTeX community already sent off the requisites to
Andrew ? If they have could they please mail me. If not does UKTeX have
the necessary funds to acquire it for the archive ? Either way we need
to get it into the archive for the benefit of depressed Macintosh
Microsoft Word users.
Fraser Dickin. [JANET:eetfd@uk.ac.stafpol.cr83]
+++Editor - I sent MAC disks to Andrew many moons ago and they may already
be on the way back. Andrew reads UKTeX so no doubt an update message will
soon appear. We have already decided how to store the information in the
archive using PD facilities to ensure that it can either be FTP'ed or
mailed. I shall also be able to offer disks (at cost to includ P & P) and
will announce full details as soon as the software is available. +++
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From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) <UCGADKW@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 15:46
Subject: Jacques Goldberg
Message-Id: <25 APR 1989 15:46:14 UCGADKW@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID>
I have not had any luck recently getting a response from Jacques Goldberg,
at <phr00jg@technion.bitnet> (i.e., ... %technion@earn-relay).
Has anyone else had more success? I am particularly interested in his
Pharsi fonts.
Dominik
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From: Jonathan Knight <jonathan@uk.ac.kl.cs>
Message-Id: <4872.8904270152@derek.cs.kl.ac.uk>
Subject: Just starting with TeX
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 1:52:37 WET DST
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL1]
Hi,
I have just found a 900 page manual that I need to format using TeX. It
says its in TeX and SliTeX format. What do I need to set up TeX on this
Ultrix (BSD 4.2) system and where do I get it from? I would like something
that is likely to format most of the TeX documents that get sent around
with application packages and the like (LaTeX?).
I am running BSD 4.2 with an apple laserwriter (Postscript).
I have tried to read files from aston.kirk but all I get is an
error message saying the record format is incompatable with the
transfer code from aston. I'm using unix-niftp 5.2, it reads text
files like [public]000aston.readme fine but most other files
don't work.
Any help would be appreciated.
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/ BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science
/ _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele,
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+++Editor - I would suggest that if you are starting from scratch then you
should send a tape for the UNIX distribution. +++
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 09:35:04 BST
From: Dave Cook 4448 <CH1DBC@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.IBM>
Message-ID: <27 Apr 89 09:46:39 BST #4613@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM>
Does anyone have the changes necessary to make
\documentstyle{book}
have Appendices AT THE END OF EACH CHAPTER
so that, for example, saying
\appendixon
if the Chapter just completed is 3
will make Appendix 3.A and all the associated
changes to equation numbering etc.etc
and then saying
\appendixoff
will make Chapter 4 and so on, the next
\appendixon
will make Appendix 4.A and 4.B (say)
and
\appendixoff
makes Chapter 5 etc. etc.
I think the generation of \appendixon and \appendixoff
must be simple but I hope someone else has done it!!
Dave Cook (Sheffield Chemistry)
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Date: Thu, 27 APR 89 09:56:50 GMT
From: CCZDGR@UK.AC.NOTTINGHAM.CCC.VAX
We are interested in evaluating implementations of TeX on PCs.
Ewart North, of UniTeX Systems, used to have a Sheffield address and
telephone number, and used to market "Personal TeX"'s proprietary PC-TeX
and associated printer drivers and previewers. I believe that he has now
moved to the Bristol area. Does anyone have the current address and
telephone number for UniTeX Systems?
There was a sheet about ArborText's offerings in with a recent TeXline.
I see that they too offer software for IBM-PCs. Does anyone happen to know
whether they have a UK distributor?
As regards the pros and cons of proprietary software versus public domain
software for PCs, has anyone done any systematic benchmarking (of TeX itself
and previewers) to compare proprietary and public domain offerings as regards
speed, storage requirements, usability, etc.?
- David Rhead
+++Editor - yes Ewart is a UK distributor - try Bristol University +++
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Date: 27-APR-1989 16:50:48 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: Re: Mike Piff's book-bug.
Sender: JANET"CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX" <CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX>
From one "busy man" to another:
Apologies for not sending this earlier, it is a known bug in LaTeX which was
corrected during 1987.
Thus the optimal answer is: get the latest version of LaTeX and all the
.STY (and .DOC) files installed on your system (the problem is not unique
to the BOOK style).
Since this may not be practical solution within an acceptable time-scale,
I offer the following temporary fix, with no guarantee that it will work
other than for the particular example which you sent in.
The problem, as you correctly surmised, is in the combination of a "theorem"
environment (or any environment which is a "trivlist") with \small (in common
with certain other size-changing commands). I therefore suggest the following
amended definition of the environment:
\newenvironment{Example}{\begin{Exampleno}\small
\leftmargin\leftmargini
}{\end{Exampleno}}
chris rowley
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From: Don Hosek <U33297@EDU.UIC.UICVM>
Subject: Skipping characters at high speed with MF
I recently sent a query about skipping characters at high speed using
MF. This morning while walking to the bus I realized that I've had the
answer all along: in appendix E of the MFbook the iff macro of cmbase
mf is explained. The key feature which I had been neglecting is to
use the MF command
let endchar = fi;
with a few adjustments to the beginjchar and endjchar I should be able
to do what I want.
-dh
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