UKTeX V89 #33 Friday 15 September 1989
Re: MF/INIMF etc. for the PC (UKTeX V89 #32)
Re: MetaFont for MS/DOS systems
Re: DYNA.STY (UKTeX V89 #32)
DYNA.STY
Looking for PD Tex
Pc-TeX?
HPGL to DEC Sixels converter wanted
UKTeX: dviselect for VM/CMS wanted
TeX
Editor Peter Abbott
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #82
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N3
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From: CCZDAO@UK.AC.NOTTINGHAM.CCC.VAX
Subject: Re: MF/INIMF etc. for the PC (UKTeX V89 #32)
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Ewald,
the latest release of DosTeX now includes METAFONT, though i can't
recall if TFtoPL/PLtoTF are also included. the latest DosTeX is being
installed in the archive and should be available soon.
dave osborne
(on behalf of Aston archive group)
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Subject: Re: MetaFont for MS/DOS systems
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Originally-from:CHAA006 "Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vaxb>"
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Ewald JENISCH <A4421DAD@EARN.AWIUNI11> asked about MetaFont for MS/DOS based
systems. At TUG '89, Richard Kinch, with incredible generosity, gave away
copies of TurboTeX to all those attending; for those who could not attend,
he sells copies for $150 (executable only), $300 (source included). TurboTeX
includes TurboMetaFont, which I have used to generate a 15cm-high crest.
Richard's trading address is:
The Kinch Computer Company
501, South Meadow Street,
Ithaca, New York 14850
Tel: (607) 273-0222
Fax: (607) 273-0484
Philip Taylor
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
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Subject: Re: DYNA.STY (UKTeX V89 #32)
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The following query from A42JR@UK.AC.NE-LONDON-POLY appeared in UKTeX89 #32,
regarding DYNA.STY...
>A user here has received a document from Germany in LaTeX format. It
>uses the BOOK.STY, but also looks for DYNA.STY. I can find no trace of
>this either from our distribution tape, or in the Aston archive. Has
>anyone ever heard of this?
Heving seen similar correspondence elsewhere, might I be right in thinking
that the style option is called dIna.sty --- in which case, I think A4.STY
might fill the bill.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Subject: DYNA.STY
One `A42JR' from NE-LONDON-POLY asks about the style DYNA.STY, mentioned
in a LaTeX document from Germany. Might this be a misreported (or even
mistyped) DINA4.STY? I *have* seen one of these somewhere. Presumably,
the DIN is as in the German (or is it European?) standards organisation,
and it is an A4 style. If this is the case, you can probably get away with
using A4.STY (from the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.LATEX.CONTRIB] in the archive,
thought you probably already have one).
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Subject: Looking for PD Tex
Cc: pgh@uk.co.stc.stl
I am looking for a PD Tex for a PC clone, can anybody help?
Peter
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Date: Tue, 12 SEP 89 08:59:48 GMT
From: KMC@UK.AC.RUTHERFORD.DEC-E
Subject: Pc-TeX?
Please can you tell me where I can get PC-TeX from? We need TeX, a DVI
previewer, and a Postscript driver for a PC clone, and we have no money.
is there any chance of a CHEST deal for PC-TeX? Kate Crennell
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Subject: HPGL to DEC Sixels converter wanted
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Certain users at this site (which is generally committed to using DEC
LN03 printers for output) are making use of a PC-based package (MathCAD) to
generate figures which they would like to include in their LaTeX-formatted
theses, etc.
Although the package supports the concept of configuration files to describe
output devices (and is capable of sending the output to a file, for later
transfer to the physical device), the only graphics output supported on what
it terms ``plotters'' (as opposed to ``printers'') is HPGL. (Producing a
configuration definition for a ``printer'' is of no help, because it will then
send textual information assuming the device supports an IBM printer character
set [we have the IBM-PC ROM for our LN03, but intermingling this with DVI
output seems rather hairy!].)
Therefore, my question is this: has anyone written a program (which runs on,
or could be ported to either a Vax or IBM-PC), which can interpret HPGL and
generate the corresponding bitmap in DEC's sixel format? Such an output
could then readily be incorporated using Rose's \special{ln03:plotfile xxx}
support in his or my DVI-LN03 driver.
Please mail me direct and I will summarize to the digests.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Subject: Wanted: Hypertext/Hypermedia Product with (La)TeX Input
Reply-To: whwb@cgchd6.UUCP (Hans W. Barz)
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Dear Netlanders
A colleague of mine asked me to post the following question:
: I'am looking for a hypertext/hypermedia product which is capable of
: processing LaTeX- and TeX-input-Files for generation of all necessary
: cross-link information for the hypertext/hypermedia product.
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: Hans W. Barz, R.1032.3.34, CIBA-GEIGY, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
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From: J M Hicks <cudat@uk.ac.warwick.cu>
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Subject: UKTeX: dviselect for VM/CMS wanted
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Cc:
We have TeX running on our IBM VM/CMS system.
It would be nice if we could get a program which would copy one DVI
file to another DVI file, the second file to contain only a selection
of pages from the first file.
There is something called "dviselect" written in C, but we don't have
a C compiler for CMS. We do have a Pascal compiler, though.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
- -
Jim Hicks (a.k.a. Hilary),
Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL
Office: Coventry (STD O2O3) 523262
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Subject: TeX
Having discovered how to talk to your TeX archive, I see that there is rather
a lot of it. What I am trying to find is an upgrade from TeX C Version 2.95
to Version 2.99, which I understand to be the current one. Is there any chance
that there may be a diff or something handy to do this ? Do you in fact have
2.99 (the tex82/readme still says 2.95) ??
Regards
Andy Michael
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