UKTeX V89 #26 Friday 14 July 1989
LaTeX style-file author wanted
Varityper 400 AFMs anyone?
LaTeX Problems
Oostrum's dvi2ps and LaTeX
Suggested modification regarding WEAVE's philosophy
PostScript Chess font
TeX/LaTeX with WordPerfect 5.0
OzTex/DosTex/General information
240 dpi Fonts for DVIEPS
Re: Sun 3 binaries in archive.
is TeX a hack?
Editor Peter Abbott
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Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #64
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Date: Tue, 4 JUL 89 10:56:35 BST
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB
Subject: LaTeX style-file author wanted
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Reply-to: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vaxb>
Originally-to: JANET%"TeX-Unmoderated,UK-TeX@Aston"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989)
Kaveh Bazargan of Focal Image Ltd. is seeking a LaTeX style-file designer.
If you are interested, please contact him on 01-229 0107, and let me know
via e-mail that you have done so. His office is in the London (W11) area.
He also asks me to let you know that he is currently offering ``TeXtures''
at an educational price of \pounds 295-00.
** Phil.
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Date: 07 Jul 89 15:43:36 bst
From: G.Toal @ uk.ac.edinburgh
Subject: Varityper 400 AFMs anyone?
Message-ID: <07 Jul 89 15:43:36 bst 050063@EMAS-A>
We support a site which uses the Varityper 400 Postscript typesetter,
with Bitstream fonts (Garamond is a favourite with our users).
To get TeX to work well with this setter, we need a set of metric files,
preferably Adobe compatible AFM ones as we can read these easily.
Adobe are very helpful with AFM files and they can even be had from
the Adobe mail server; I'm not sure about the bitstream fonts though.
Does anyone know if they are available by mail? (Not FTP unless the
site in in the UK) or whether there is a postal address I can write
to for a set of floppies?
Unfortunately our typesetter is in Philadelphia, and we are in London (UK),
so we have a bit of a communications problem... it may well be the case
that the typesetting company got a set of metrics with the hardware,
but after several long distance phone calls we haven't been able to get
any sense out of them :) Anyway, I would prefer an 'official' release
and not have to rely on one particular machine.
I also explored the option of getting the AFMs out the machine directly,
but that route doesn't give all the info we need unfortunately.
Thanks if you can help,
Graham. (gtoal@ed.ac.uk)
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From: Peter King <pjbk@uk.ac.hw.cs>
Message-Id: <26978.8907071445@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Subject: LaTeX Problems
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 15:45:44 BST
X-Mailer: Elm [version 2.1 PL1]
Can anyone enlighten me as to how to make the spacing around
the central filed in an `eqnarray' the same as it would be in an
equation environment. At the moment,
\begin{eqnarray}
a & = & b+c
\end{eqnarray}
gives a much larger space around the = than does
\begin{equation}
a = b+c
\end{equation}
and my copy editor would like the spaces to be identical. Easily done?
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Heriot-Watt University ARPA: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk
79 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HJ or pjbk%cs.hw.ac.uk@ucl-cs
Phone: (+44) 31 225 6465 Ext. 555 UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!pjbk
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From: Peter King <pjbk@uk.ac.hw.cs>
Message-Id: <27013.8907071451@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Subject: Oostrum's dvi2ps and LaTeX
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 15:51:36 BST
X-Mailer: Elm [version 2.1 PL1]
I'm having two small problems with this combination, using the
Postscript fonts builtin to the Apple Laserwriter.
1. In the table of contents, I get messages about overfull hboxes
and the chapter number of the main chapter headings are overwritten.
It doesn't happen in the section and subsection contenets entries.
I would suspect the TFM files, except that the same doesn't happen to
the bold numbers that appear in the text before the section and
subsection names.
2. A number of the accents and diacriticals supplied by TeX, such as
a cedilla are ommitted when the file is printed. Any solution known?
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Peter King, Computer Science Department JANET: pjbk@uk.ac.hw.cs
Heriot-Watt University ARPA: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk
79 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HJ or pjbk%cs.hw.ac.uk@ucl-cs
Phone: (+44) 31 225 6465 Ext. 555 UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!pjbk
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Date: Fri, 7 JUL 89 19:18:09 BST
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: Suggested modification regarding WEAVE's philosophy
Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" <TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Message-Id: <000001A0_000698C0.00927674DB319760$11_2@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Originally-to: TEXHAX,UKTEX
Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989)
The 95% of users whose only contact with a WEB change file is to build
TeXware, etc, using a .CH they've been given, need read no further...
OK, the other 5% of you: I'd like to make a small suggestion regarding the
philosophy of WEB regarding section numbers. At present, when WEAVE is
applied to a .WEB and .CH file combination, the resultant output puts stars
against the section numbers of those sections that have been changed (and
notes them in the index). So one CAN follow what's happened by referring to
the original (unCHanged) WEAVEd output (like TeX: The Program, for example)
and the changed sections (as produced with \let\maybe=\iffalse in the source).
However, if the modifications necessitate the addition or deletion of some
complete sections, then the module numbers get out of kilter. Now perhaps
this is no big deal for those marvellous people who generate for us
appropriate change files for each machine type, and who just tweak this a bit
when a new version of TeX or whatever is released --- in fact, the change file
that we have for TeX under VMS manages to keep in step right up to the system-
dependent bit at the end (which is after all what Knuth says in the WEB source)
On the other hand, I created and maintain DVItoLN03 for VMS (it's not
portable, for all that it's written in WEB) and by the nature of things,
adding extra functionality means adding new modules to the WEB. OK, so it's
not that big by comparison with TeX or MF, but there's still a goodly amount
of code there. Naturally enough, I do this through a change file (although
the upgrades that I've distributed hitherto have all been a WEB that needs no
changes, generated by applying WEBMerge to the files). It makes a great deal
of sense to me to include the number of the section that's being CHanged in
the @x line of the change file. But when I WEAVE, etc, the newly printed
version is difficult to correlate back to the numbers in the file as I make
further changes.
What I would like to see, and I think that DEK should have done this in
the first place, is for WEAVE to keep track of |module_count| separately
within the @x--@y and @y--@z sections, so that it can know if modules have
been deleted or added by the CHanges. Then any module that is itself changed
needs to be starred in the usual fashion, but additional modules ought to be
``numbered'' something like 301a, 301b, etc. Any module that's been dropped
in its entirety needs to have some sort of indication in the final output, so
that the original numbering scheme can be maintained. If (or when) something
like WEBMerge is used to combine all the changes into one file, then the new
WEB source will have ordinary numbering throughout.
As an example of what I'm driving at, let's suppose that a portion of the
change file reads as follows:
@x
some text from the end of module 29, say
@The beginning of module 30
.
.
the end of module 30
@The beginning of module 31
.
.
@y
some text from the end of module 29, say
but modified
@Some extra new module
.
@Some extra new module again
.
@Some extra new module (yet another)
.
@The beginning of module 31
again, it's modified
.
@z
(Hopefully, people don't put so much in a single change section, but I'm
sure you catch my drift)
When this is printed, I'd like to see something like:
29*. .......
.
.
some text from the end of module 29, say
but modified
29a. Some extra new module
.
29b. Some extra new module again
.
29c. Some extra new module (yet another)
.
30*. <<<This module was deleted by the change file>>>
31*. The beginning of module 31
again, it's modified
Possibly, since it may be hard to detect the missing module any other way,
it might have to come out like this:
29*. .......
.
.
some text from the end of module 29, say
but modified
30*. Some extra new module
.
30a. Some extra new module again
.
30b. Some extra new module (yet another)
.
.
31*. The beginning of module 31
again, it's modified
Now my question is this --- has anyone else thought of this idea, or even
better, implemented it. If not, I might try to see what I can do with WEAVE
myself. Knuth uses a |sixteen_bits| field for the module number in the data
structures, but limits the numbers to 1..2000. He also uses the value 10240
(defined through an @d) as a flag to indicate a defining occurrence. Now this
suggests to me that there's enough bits left over (with a little judicious
rearrangement) to be able to have a few to indicate which letter is going to
get tacked on to the number.
One final thought: I suppose TANGLE too needs to do this because it puts
the module numbers into the Pascal code, as comments.
Am I wrong in wanting this? Am I taking on an impossible task???
Any suggestions (direct or through the digests) welcomed.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Date: Mon, 10 JUL 89 21:03:09 BST
From: EFIA4580@UK.AC.QUEENS-BELFAST.CENTRE.VAX1
Stephen Gilmore
Department of Computer Science
The Queen's University of Belfast
University Road
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
Could anyone answer a query about Andrew Trevorrow's PSPRINT utility for
VAX/VMS systems? His DVItoPS program inserts a CTRL/D character at the
end of the Postscript file. Sadly, this gets lost on the way to our
Apple Laserwriter. This means that all files converted and printed in
this way produce a page at the end with the message:
POSTSCRIPT ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND:
OPERAND STACK:
Other than this, the output is fine. Could anyone suggest a command to
add to the LWPRINT.COM file to suppress this message?
Thank you.
Stephen Gilmore
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 10:55:07 BST
From: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese.vulcan (Adrian F. Clark)
Message-Id: <8907110955.AA00873@vulcan.>
Subject: PostScript Chess font
Sender: JANET"alien@uk.ac.essex.ese" (Adrian Clark) <alien@uk.ac.essex.ese>
A down-loadable PostScript chess font, PL file and Macintosh support
has been made freely available by Adobe. These have been put into the
archive as follows:
Directory $1$DUA14:[TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.ADOBE.CHEQ]
filename size content
00README.TEX;1 5 introduction
CHEQ-F.SIT-HQX;1 86 Mac printer font
CHEQ-SF.SIT-HQX;1 36 Mac screen fonts
CHEQ-TXT.SIT-HQX;1 11 Mac demo
CHEQ.AFM;1 6 AFM description of the glyphs
CHEQ.PL;1 11 Property List file for TeX
CHEQ.PS;1 117 down-loadable font definition
CHEQ.STY;1 4 LaTeX and TeX style file for the font
DEMO.TEX;1 4 demo of CHEQ.STY
EXAMPLE.PS;1 6 PostScript example of CHEQ.PS
Total of 10 files, 286 blocks.
The font and CHEQ.STY have been tested with James Clark's DVItoPS
under Unix and proved quite satisfactory. (The style file simply
loads the font and assigns meaningful names to the various characters.)
Adrian F. Clark
pp Aston Archivists (and who thought AA stood for something else?)
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 16:04:02 BST
From: Chris Wooff <QQ43@UK.AC.LIVERPOOL>
Subject: TeX/LaTeX with WordPerfect 5.0
I was interested in an article on page 67 of TUGBoat volume 10. The
author has written a TeX driver for WP which he is prepared to make
available for the costs of the media. Do you have any plans to include
this software in your server?
Thanks,
Chris
+++Editor - I have ordered the discs and an announcement will be made as soon
as they are available. +++
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Subject: OzTex/DosTex/General information
X-Original-To: info-tex@aston.ac.uk, OGIGUCHTE
L.S.
I have three questions, probably discussed in previous UKTeX's, but I
have only the last four issues. I hope someone can help me.
Question 1.
I have downloaded the file [TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.PC.OZTEX]DOCS.HQX.
The file must be converted with BInHex 4.0.
I've never heard of that program. Can anyone tell me how it works
and/or where to retrieve it?
Question 2.
For DosTeX v2.93 I want cm-fonts for a 300 dpi Postscript Laserprinter.
The printer driver which I have is DVIALW.EXE v2.10 from Nelson Beebe.
Can I use the fonts from the OzTeX-package?
(My system : IBM-clone, 8088 processor, 8087 co-processor, MS-DOS 2.11,
640 kB RAM)
An alternative would be the fonts in the directories:
[TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.CMFONTS.PK.PK300] or
[TEX-ARCHIVE.FONTS.CMFONTS.PK.PK300W]
What is the difference?
Question 3.
There are many subjects in the TeX-archive unknown to me.
Is there somewhere a documentation file with general information?
Thanks.
Wisse J. van de Guchte
Leiden University
e-mail : OGIGUCHT@HLERUL52 (BITNET)
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 14:58:53
From: Edmund Sutcliffe <SUTCLIFFE_EJ @ LANCSP.P1>
Subject: 240 dpi Fonts for DVIEPS
Has anyone built a full set of 240dpi CM fonts to work with Nelson Beebes
dvieps program. There is in the archive with DosTeX a partially complete
set of fonts but not enough to make the driver really usefull and as I do not have acc
have access to MetaFont I am unable to build a set.
I would be very grateful if any one has a set if they could let me have a copy
Edmund Sutcliffe
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 10:39:43 BST
From: peter@uk.co.memex (Peter Ilieve)
Message-Id: <8907130939.AA01730@doc.memex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sun 3 binaries in archive.
Sebastian Rahtz has generously donated a fair weight of Sun 3 binaries
to the archive. I have some reservations about this. They must take up
a lot of space, the previewers are either very large with all the SunView
libraries or they use shared libraries and are no use to people running
SunOs 3.x. There are also the hard coded paths.
I am always amazed at the seemingly infinite amounts of disk space that
Peter has for the archive, but it must fill up eventually. When it starts
getting tight I would not want new stuff rejected or old stuff removed
while all this binary code was taking up space.
If the fact that they were gcc compiled is seen as an advantage then I
would prefer to see the gcc source code take this space rather than binaries.
Sorry to sound ungrateful, but everyone with a Sun has a C compiler so source
should be sufficient, in fact better.
Peter Ilieve peter@memex.co.uk
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 17:32:37 BST
Message-Id: <233.8907131632@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: is TeX a hack?
A colleague's comment follows; is this significant?
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Subject: TeX is Hacking?
further to the debate about whether TeX encourages hacking, there
are 49 lines out of 8459 in the latex.tex file which mention `hack's
Les
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