UKTeX V89 #30 Thursday 17 August 1989
Advanced TeX and METAFONT Courses
Lucida maths fonts
** Announcing a public domain screen previewer for the IBM PC **
Re: UK.AC.UKC refusing INCOMING mail
Mittelbach's Multicol.sty
Recent additions to the archive
Citing all refs in BibTeX
DVIJEP
Editor Peter Abbott
The next scheduled issue is Friday September 1 1989.
(TeXhax seems to be taking a summer break)
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #71
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Via: [000060500004.SPCP+MAIL]; Fri, 11 Aug 89 17:28 BST
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 17:29:26 BST
From: BOOTH.CM@UK.AC.EXETER
Subject: Advanced TeX and METAFONT Courses
Message-ID: <BOOTH.CM.RXTA@UK.AC.EXETER>
A REMINDER ABOUT THE EUROPEAN TUG TeX COURSES THIS COMING SEPTEMBER....
ADVANCED/MACRO WRITING COURSE 18TH--22ND SEPTEMBER 1989
BEGINNING METAFONT COURSE 26TH--29TH SEPTEMBER 1989
BOTH TAKING PLACE AT EXETER UNIVERSITY, DEVON, UK
...IN WONDERFUL SCENIC SURROUNDINGS...
RARE, POSSIBLY NEVER TO BE REPEATED APPEARANCE BY DOUG HENDERSON
(OF PC-METAFONT FAME, NOW OF BLUE SKY RESEARCH AND MAC-METAFONT)
TEACHING THE METAFONT COURSE.
...IF INSUFFICIENT NUMBERS, THIS MAY BE CANCELLED!!!
To obtain booking form and further details, contact:
Mr. Clive Nicholas
Continuing Education and Training Officer
University of Exeter
Cotley
Streatham Rise Telephone: (0392) 411906
Exeter EX4 4PE Fax: (0392) 263108
U.K. Janet email:
NICHOLAS.CS@UK.AC.EXETER
DON'T CONTACT ME (BOOTH.CM) AS I WON'T BE HERE... (CALIFORNIA BOUND)
Cathy Booth
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Via: UK.AC.OU.ACSVAX; Fri, 11 Aug 89 18:10 BST
Date: 11-AUG-1989 18:12:02 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: Lucida maths fonts
Sender: JANET"CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX" <CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX>
SPQR writes:
Can anyone advise me:
a) whether the Lucida maths fonts are available anywhere
b) how to get them
c) what they are like
a) We were sent some rather crummy photocopies of the symbols themselves about
six months ago, but with no indication of when, if ever, they would be
available.
Rumour had it last summer that they were having trouble getting the extra .TFM
parameters needed to typeset maths with them correct.
Following may have more info:
Richard Southall, Paul Bacsich, Adobe
(apologies for my sense of humour towards the end of the list!).
c) Nothing special to my untutored eye, but impossible to comment as have not
seen them in use, ie in context of maths typesetting and with the other fonts in
the family.
The family as a whole seems to me to do little for high resolution
phototypesetting but they may well be what every 300dpi machine has been
waiting for.
chris
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Via: UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS; Fri, 11 Aug 89 18:36 BST
Date: Fri, 11 AUG 89 18:37:56 BST
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: ** Announcing a public domain screen previewer for the IBM PC **
Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" <TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Message-Id: <00000699_002A4738.009291F00965C980$13_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Originally-to: UKTEX
Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989)
Doug McDonald <mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> has written a TeX screen previewer
for the IBM PC and has kindly placed it in the public domain. The previewer,
DVIVGA, is based on the Beebe family of DVI drivers and supports the
following:
Display adapters: EGA, VGA and MCGA (colour and monochrome)
Font formats: PK, GF and PXL
Computers: IBM PC or compatible running MS/PC-DOS with
at least 512kB RAM. All CPUs are supported, but
ideally, you will have at least an 80286 CPU clocked
at 8MHz or faster and a reasonably fast hard disk.
DVIVGA is now available from the Aston archive as 6 BOO-encoded, self-
extracting ZIP files in directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.MS-DOS.DVIVGA].
They are:
DVIVGA.BOO - the program and its documentation
SOURCES.BOO - the source code for Microsoft C v5.1
FONTS1.BOO - screen font files in PK format (part 1 of 4)
FONTS2.BOO - screen font files in PK format (part 2 of 4)
FONTS3.BOO - screen font files in PK format (part 3 of 4)
FONTS4.BOO - screen font files in PK format (part 4 of 4)
Niel Kempson
(of the Aston archive group)
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Via: UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS; Mon, 14 Aug 89 13:02 BST
Date: Mon, 14 AUG 89 12:32:55 BST
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: Re: UK.AC.UKC refusing INCOMING mail
Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" <TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Message-Id: <000006D6_00146F78.009294188AC8D7E0$12_1@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Originally-to: UKTEX,TEXHAX
Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.4 (23-May-1989)
A short while ago, I posted a ``flame'' about the UK's uucp gateway (UK.AC.UKC)
refusing delivery of incoming international mail crossing between the uucp and
Janet networks. Naturally, I had previously queried this with UKC directly,
but their reply had been delayed for quite cogent reasons, and I was so
incensed at the time that I wanted to ensure that all persons who might be
trying to correspond with us were informed that their mail would not reach us
if it were to be routed via uucp.
I now understand why it is that UKC charge the recipient for incoming mail
(put simply, it's because they have to poll Europe and America for incoming
mail, and thus bear the costs of reception as well as delivery). Because of
this, we are now taking steps to become registered so that we can continue to
receive uucp mail (although we currently don't seem to have any requirement to
originate such traffic).
I STILL am disappointed that it is necessary for UKC to cut off incoming mail
in this manner, in particular, that the ADDRESSEE is informed that mail has
been received, but rejected, and the poor old originator doesn't even get told
of the failure --- however, I can appreciate that it's cheaper to inform the
addressee than to send a rejection response to the originator. Still, it's
not very useful for the addressee to be told about the refusal of the mail, if
the only address given for the originator is via uucp!
The situation can, I am given to understand, escalate still further ---
apparently, if an unregistered site continues to receive incoming messages,
the latter will eventually be discarded without notifying either sender or
addressee.
I seems a great shame that UKC is so starved of funding that they have to make
any charge AT ALL to the academic community (commercial customers should [and
do] make appropriate payments). There must be something that JANET users
can do to try to ensure that UKC is given an appropriate grant to fund what is
the only UK gateway between two important networks. Any suggestions received
will be posted on to the appropriate authorities --- but please, contact me
directly --- UKTeX and TeXhax are not really the correct fora in which to
conduct this correspondence.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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+++Editor - I agree that this is not the correct place for this discussion.
Further messages relating to this topic will NOT be included. +++
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Via: UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID; Tue, 15 Aug 89 9:47 BST
From: Wujastyk (on GEC 4190 Rim-D at UCL) <UCGADKW@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 09:48
Subject: Mittelbach's Multicol.sty
Message-Id: <15 AUG 1989 09:48:46 UCGADKW@UK.AC.UCL.EUCLID>
I fetched Mittelbach's multicol.sty and multicol.tex files from the
Aston Archive recently (ver.1.0d). I already have ltugbot.sty and
tugbot.dat(es), so I was all set to run it off and have a read. I
had already had success with the doc.sty/tex files, so I was confident.
But after doing four pages, multicol.sty packed up, having overflowed
TeX's save stack.
Has anyone else had the problem? Error log follows:
- ------------------------ multicol.log (extracts) -----------------
This is TeX, Version 2.1 (preloaded format=mllplain 89.8.11) 14 AUG 1989 10:24
(Multi-Lingual PCTeX 2.10, (c)Personal TeX, Inc 1987. S/N 20176)
**&mllplain multicol
(D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\MULTICOL.TEX
LaTeX Version 2.09 <8 Feb 1989>
(D:\PCTEX\LATEX\ARTICLE.STY
Document Style `article' <16 Mar 88>.
(D:\PCTEX\LATEX\ART10.STY)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% deleted stuff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
) (D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\LTUGBOT.STY
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% deleted stuff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
(D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\TUGBOT.DATES)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% deleted stuff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
) (D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\DOC.STY
Style-Option: `doc' v1.5h <89/5/7> (FMI)
English Documentation <89/5/17> (RMCS and FMI)
Warning: This style option should be used as last option
Warning: in the \documentstyle command !
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% deleted stuff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
(D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\MULTICOL.STY
Style-Option: `multicol' v1.0d <89/5/12> (FMI)
English Documentation <89/5/17> (FMI)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% deleted stuff %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Writing index file multicol.idx
) (D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\MULTICOL.AUX) (D:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MISC\MULTICOL.STY
Starting multicolumn output with 3 columns:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% loads of diagnostics deleted %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
[4]
Colroom: 648.0pt after float space removed = 648.0pt
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=600].
<recently read> {
\@donoparitem ... \global \setbox \@labels \hbox {
\hskip -\leftmargin \unhbo...
\@item [#1]->\if@noparitem \@donoparitem
\else \if@inlabel \indent \par \fi ...
\macro@ ... \PrintMacroName {\string #1}]}\@tempa
\SpecialMainIndex {#1}\nob...
l.598 % \begin{macro}{\partial@page}
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
335 strings out of 1440
3377 string characters out of 13369
43927 words of memory out of 65535
2278 multiletter control sequences out of 3000
19597 words of font info for 74 fonts, out of 23745 for 127
17 hyphenation exceptions out of 307
18i,6n,15p,195b,604s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,1024b,600s
Output written on D:\PCTEX\DVI\MULTICOL.DVI (4 pages, 24136 bytes).
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Via: [000020120001.FTP.MAIL]; Tue, 15 Aug 89 16:08 BST
Date: Tue, 15 AUG 89 16:08:40 GMT
From: A_CLARK@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK
Subject: Recent additions to the archive
Sender: JANET"A_CLARK@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK" <A_CLARK@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK>
Message-Id: <20401E93_00146F38.009294FFD88F5840$166_1@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK>
Originally-to: JANET%ASTON::INFO-TEX
Originally-from:A_CLARK
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.3a (02-Feb-1989)
Following two days of furious activity in the archive, the following have
been made available in the archive:
o Adrian Clark's halftone stuff in [TEX-ARCHIVE.HALFTONE]. This comprises
Knuth's halftone font, software for translating image data to TeX input
files, examples and documentation.
o VMS object modules for the following programs:
dvitype 2.9
gftodvi 1.7
gftopk 1.4
gftype 2.2
mf, inimf 1.7
pktype 2.2
pltotf 2.3
tangle 2.9
tex, initex 2.991
tftopl 2.5
weave 2.9
These were compiled under VMS 5, but should be able to be linked under
any version of VMS. The important programs were compiled /OPT. They are
to be found in the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.BINARY.VMS].
o WEB and Change files corresponding to these object modules are all to
be found below the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.SRC]. (There are duplicates
of these files elsewhere in the archive; these will be removed in the
next few days.) The TeX change file incorporates the big-memory and
editor interfaces previously described in UKTeX.
Change files and object modules for the other useful utilities
(e.g., BibTeX) will be made available in the immediate future.
Adrian F Clark
(alien@uk.ac.essex.ese)
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From: jg@uk.ac.oxford.prg
Message-Id: <8908151753.AA07852@uk.ac.oxford.prg.client14>
Subject: Citing all refs in BibTeX
I have seen several clever programs and shell scripts for creating a
LaTeX file which cites all the entries in a bibliography; they all
work through the .bib file, and convert every entry into the corresponding
\nocite or whatever.
I recently discovered a much better way to do the same thing. BibTeX
has an (undocumented, as far as I can tell) feature whereby you can say
\nocite{*} to cite the entire bibliography. For example, the LaTeX file
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\bibliographystyle{alpha}
\bibliography{foo}
\end{document}
will cite every entry in the bibliography file foo.bib.
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Via: UK.AC.HW.VAXB; Wed, 16 Aug 89 9:57 BST
Date: 16-AUG-1989 09:58:48 GMT
From: CENSWM@UK.AC.HW.VAXB
Subject: DVIJEP
Is there anyone out there who has a working version of BEEBES DVIJEP,
for VAX VMS. I am unable to compile this version. I would be gratefull
if someone could perhaps send me a copy via FTP.
Thanks
Stuart Munn
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