UKTeX V89 #25 Friday 7 July 1989
macros for Concrete Mathematics
Another implementation of BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS
Compressed archive files, uncompressing
Thanks, James
PostScript and LaTeX, font encoding
fillin
8th Annual Meeting of German TeX Users
Re: texserver return path
The future of TeX
TeX on IBM 6150 (RT)
New address of Rainer Rupprecht
Sun 3 binaries
upgrade to OzTeX 1.1
TeX stuff at Aston.
Editor Peter Abbott
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #62
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 89 20:30:24 BST
Message-Id: <7808.8907011930@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: macros for Concrete Mathematics
The macros used for typesetting Knuth et al's `Concrete Mathematics'
are available at Aston as
[tex-archive.tex-style]gkpmac.tex
People wanting to know how to set things up to use the Euler and Concrete
fonts (rather than plain CM) will find this useful.
Sebastian Rahtz
pp archive working party
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Date: Fri, 30 JUN 89 16:24:54 BST
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: Another implementation of BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS
Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" <TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
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Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account"
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Since announcing my implementation of BibTeX v0.99c for MS-DOS, I've been sent
another implementation! Thanks to Ken Yap <ken@cs.rochester.edu> and
Goncal Badenes <icnm2@ebccuab1.bitnet>.
The 00README.TXT file for the distribution says:
> This is a BibTeX implementation for the IBM-PC done by J.Demel
> (Technical University Vienna Bitnet:Z3000JD@AWITUW1) and
> Dimitri Vulis (CUNY, Bitnet: DLV@CUNYVMS1). For the implementation
> the Professional Pascal Compiler from Metaware Version 2.7 was used.
> This implementation is based in BibTeX Version 0.99c.
There are 2 files in the distribution:
00README.TXT - general information
BIBTEX99.BOO - a BOO encoded ARC compatible archive containing a
BIBTEX.WEB change file for the Professional Pascal
compiler and the executable program BIBTEX.EXE
The files are in the archive in the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.BIBTEX.PC.DEMEL]
Niel Kempson
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:49:49
From: CS1CWM @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA
Subject: Compressed archive files, uncompressing
Peter:
I have seen a note recently about uncompressing the files in the archive with
_Z terminator but I haven't been able to find it again? Can you point me at
it?
Chris Martin
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:50:31
From: CS1CWM @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA
Subject: Thanks, James
I would like to use this newsletter to thank James Clark for his DVITOPS
which we have begun to use. It's an excellent program and it is most
generous of him to put it into the public domain.
Chris Martin
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:51:31
From: CS1CWM @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA
Subject: PostScript and LaTeX, font encoding
Further to our use of DVITOPS, I have also tried Philip Taylor's PS-LATEX
with good results except for my confusion over the TFM's and PS
font reencoding.
I changed PS-LFONTS.TEX to use the PS... forms of the TFM files which was
fine except that Courier printed was wider than TeX thought and would
overwrite the following character.
I thought this might be due to using the wrong encoding which would get the
widths for the punctuation marks (say) instead of the letters and changed to
the PSM... files. Now I found that ligatures had gone missing.
Could somebody give me a reference to an explanation which I can then read
and pretend I knew all along?
Chris Martin
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From: Don Hosek <U33297@EDU.UIC.UICVM>
Subject: fillin
I'm putting together an article on how to develop mode_def's and I'm
trying to illustrate the effects of fillin using a simple MF file along
the lines of:
smode="specmode";
mode_setup;
beginchar(0,0,0,0);
penpos1(5,45);
penpos2(5,45);
z1=(0,50);
z2=(20,0);
penstroke z1e--z2e;
endchar;
with the file specmode.mf reading:
blacker:=0;
pixels_per_inch:=300;
proofing:=2;
fontmaking:=0;
tracingtitles:=0;
fillin:=-3.0;
"fillin -3.0";
o_correction:=1;
xerox_pixel;
(xerox_pixel sets the grey font so that it is a font with each pixel
represented by a bitmap resembling:
.....
.XXX.
.XXX.
.XXX.
.....
in this way, each pixel can be clearly distinguished on the proof sheet).
I've tried changing the value of fillin to values in the set
{-3, -1.1, -.7, -.4, -.2, -.1, 0, .1, .2, .4, .7, 1.1, 3) and printed
proofsheets of the whole thing and cannot find any difference in
the bitmaps produced.
I presume I am correct that the effect of fillin is to cause
pixels near something like
XXXYY
XXXYY
XXXXX
XXXXX
to change from X to Y. So why do I not see any differences in the
proof sheets? How can I get some printed sheets to demonstrate the
effect of fillin?
Thanks in advance,
-dh
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Never give a gun to ducks
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%=============================================================================
First Announcement and Call for Papers
8th Annual Meeting of German TeX Users
October 11--13, 1989, Eichstaett, FRG
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This year's Annual Meeting of German TeX Users will take place at the
Catholic University of Eichstaett
from Wednesday, October 11, to Friday, October 13, 1989.
The conference will be organized by the Computing Center of the Catholic
University of Eichstaett and the recently founded German TeX Users Group
DANTE e.V.
Starting with the general meeting of DANTE on Wednesday afternoon, several
tutorials on TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont will be organized on Thursday;
finally, papers and discussion groups on all TeX-related problems will
be scheduled on Thursday and Friday.
If you are interested in participating in this conference and/or if you
plan to present a paper, please send the attached pre-registration form
to the address given below.
Further questions or suggestions for this meeting should be directed to
Joachim Lammarsch (rz92@dhdurz1.bitnet), the Chairman of DANTE, or to
Dr. Wolfgang A. Slaby (slaby@urz.ku-eichstaett.dbp.de)
Please give copies of this form to your colleagues,
as the mailing list is incomplete.
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From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark)
Message-Id: <8907030941.AA10344@vulcan.>
Subject: Re: texserver return path
Sender: JANET"alien@uk.ac.essex.ese" (Adrian Clark) <alien@uk.ac.essex.ese>
In UKTeX V89 #24, David Shepherd writes:
> I can confirm that putting your user name in capitals in a texserver request
> gets a reply !!!
I'm the author of the much-maligned mail-server, and this phenomenon
comes as a bit of a surprise to me. The mail-server works by
generating DCL commands to prepare the files and mail them out.
Out-going mail is sent by the POST command, written by UWIST, I
believe. The username and return address generated *is* the same as
that specified in the user's request, but DCL will normally fold the
command line to upper case before passing it to the POST program.
Hence, if you are experiencing the effects of case-sensitivity in
return addresses, POST is somehow managing to circumvent the
mechanisms and restrictions imposed by DCL. Are there any VMS gurus
reading this message who can explain this to me?
(An aside: I originally *did* preserve the case of usernames and
return addresses, but this caused problems when requests from VMS
VAXen had their usernames specified in lower case, since the software
which receives incoming JANET mail does not fold the username to upper
case and rejects it.)
In the same issue, Peter Ilieve reports that he has no problems (on a
Unix host, I believe) with usernames in lower case. Nor do I, also on
a Unix host connected to JANET. He makes the interesting point about
RFC822 requiring that case be preserved. Now, who can advise me?
Adrian F. Clark
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 12:29:21 NZT
From: Russell Fulton <ccc032u@nz.ac.aukuni.aucc1>
Subject: The future of TeX
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From: Russell Fulton <ccc032u@aucc1>
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Subject: The future of TeX
I wish to comment on two items that appeared in issue #24, namely those from
Mike Piff and Ken Yapp. I believe that these two items touch on
fundamental issues that effect TeX's future.
Firstly I aggree with Mike's comments about the structure (or lack of it) in
TeX. There is evidence that Knuth likes to work at a `low' level. ( The example
s in "The Art of Computer Programming" are all in assembler.) There is nothing
wrong with this per se. It certainly does not make Knuth's contribution to
computer science or typesetting any less valid. It does however place time
limits the usefulness of some of the products. In particular the TeX82 program
and the 3 volumes of "The Art..". ( How many non specialist, or even under grad
comp sci students, are familiar enough with assembler to appreciate the example
s?) If they are to remain useful as a general reference I believe that they
will have to be updated. I believe the same applies to TeX. What was acceptabl
e and appropriate 10 years ago may not survive the next 10.
This brings me to my main point. That TeX must be updated if it is to survive
as a popular tool. I believe that the following areas must be addressed
1/ More support for macro writers. At the moment it requires a great
investment in time to become a competent macro writer. Every
organisation of any size using LaTeX needs at least one such person
to develop custom style.
2/ (Re Ken Yapp's item) Must address the inclusion and generation of
graphics. I believe that the only satistfactory way of dealing with
this is by building it in to TeX. TeX needs a set of basic graphic
operators.( The GKS set is more than adequate.) The graphics output
should go out to a separate file ( dgi ?) Since a 'picture' must be
on a single page they don't have to be stored in memory, they can be
dumped straight to disk. The div driver then recombines them.
3/ There are issues related to non English languages and non Roman alphabe
that need addressing. This is not an area in which I have have any
expertise so I won't comment further.
4/ Ken Yapp's final point "incorperate TeX typesetting into a more
encompassing model of document layout.
Russell Fulton, Computer Centre, Univeristy of Auckland.
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Date: 07/03/89 15:27:56 GMT+1
From: QZDMGN@EARN.RUIPC1E
Subject: TeX on IBM 6150 (RT)
Dr. Reinhard Wonneberger qzdmgn @ drueds2 . BITNET
Neulich hatte sich jemand beklagt, dass die von
Rick Simpson in Exeter gezeigte TeX-Portierung in Deutschland
nicht erhaeltlich sei.
Ich habe diesen Wunsch an IBM weitergegeben und er ist
inzwischen erfuellt worden; hier die Daten:
RPQDATA P91019IBM RT PC TEX and METAFONT
Mach-MOD 5799-PFG
Mit diesen Daten sollte Ihr IBM-VB in der Lage sein,
Ihnen das Produkt zu besorgen.
Schoene Gruesse
Reinhard Wonneberger
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Subject: 8th Summer School
Announcement and Call for Papers
8th Summer School on
Computing Techniques in Physics
``Man-Machine Interface in Scientific Environment''
19-28 September 1988
Skalsky dvur, Czechoslovakia
The conference will put some stress on Document Processing.
Program and other information can be obtained from:
Dr. J. Nadrchal
Summer Schools on Computational Physics
Institute of Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
Na Slovance 2
CS 180 40 Praha 8
Czechoslovakia
Regards
Reinhard Wonneberger
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From: Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX <DANTE@EARN.DHDURZ1>
Subject: New address of Rainer Rupprecht
UK.AC.ASTON>, TEX-EURO@EARN.DHDURZ1
Rainer Rupprecht from Karlsruhe/Germany has asked me to send this mail
to all:
Because of a change in mainframe at Karlsruhe the nodes
DKAUNI46 and DKAUNI48
doesn't exist any longer! Mail, which will be send to this nodes, will
not be accept. Please send your mail to
RZ32 at DKAUNI2
And please change the entry in your names file.
Kind regards
Joachim Lammarsch
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 10:50:57 BST
Message-Id: <1656.8907060950@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Sun 3 binaries
anyone building TeX on a Sun 3 may care to pick up a set of precompiled
binaries (remember to use binary FTP!) from
[tex-archive.binary.sun3]
at Aston, comprising
aftopl virtex298
bibtex virtex298.small
dvitops initex298
dvidvi tex.pool
makeindex
texx2
texsun
textool
weave
tangle
Note: 1) the virtex2.98 is a `gargantuan' version with support
for multi-language hyphenation. virtex298.small is a normal
version
2) the following paths are compiled in:
fonts .:/u/tex/mftfm:/u/tex/pstfm
formats .:/u/tex/formats
inputs .:/u/tex/inputs
If there is any interest, all the utilities and the Metafont family could
join this little band.
Sebastian Rahtz
PS don't worry, these files were all (I think) compiled with Gnu CC,
so they are biologically degradable
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 10:32:08 BST
Message-Id: <1648.8907060932@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: upgrade to OzTeX 1.1
The two files
[tex-archive.tex.pc.oztex]patch1.hqx
[tex-archive.tex.pc.oztex]patch2.hqx
are BinHeXed Stuffit archives of the two upgrade disks for Andrew
Trevorrow's OzTeX, to bring it up to 1.1. The improvements are
important (see announcement in UKTeX recently), so anyone who has
downloaded OzTeX will probably want to get these files.
Please note that the other files at Aston are still the old version,
so *new* OzTeX users need first to get everything but the patches and
install it, then install the patches. The entire distribution will be
upgraded as soon as possible but it does mean quite a lot of assorted
processing. The font files will not, of course, need to be changed.
Sebastian Rahtz
pp archive working party
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 89 15:46:22 +0100
From: John.Aspden @ uk.ac.newcastle
Subject: TeX stuff at Aston.
Message-id: <emu-ul04.1989.0706.154623.cl50@uk.ac.ncl.mts>
I saw the stuff in UKTeX #24 about OzTeX version 1.1, and tried to get
it from aston.kirk, but the stuff there is still the older version 1.0.
Are you in the process of putting up version 1.1?
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At the same time I noticed that the sources were also available, which weren't
there when I grabbed the rest of OzTeX, so I got those too. sources1.hqx
is ok, but sources2.hqx gives an EOF error when I try to de-BinHex it.
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Incidentally, network connectivity is now so good that I can have a program
*executing* on my Mac within about 10-15 minutes of *requesting* the BinHex
version from the Aston archives!
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