UKTeX V89 #44 Friday 21 December 1989
*** PKZIP 1.02 for MS-DOS available ***
Re: ``Should fractions be centered on the maths axis ...''
footers different width from text (UKTeX V89 #43)
*** TIE change file merger now available ***
*** Latest version of sbTeX now available ***
*** Latest version of the DVI2XX IBM 3812/HP LaserJet driver available ***
Re: UKTeX #43
GAWK for MS-DOS
dvi to LJ
PCTeX and Novell network
Re: tabbing, font changes (Re: UKTeX V89 #43)
***** Announcing TeX v2.993 for VAX/VMS *****
speakers for UK TeX Users Group on bibliography and indexing
Pagenumbering in letter.sty
LaTeX versions
Unix TeX 2.99/ Metafont 1.7 tape
TeX for the Archimedes
255 character fonts on HP LJ II
Editor Peter Abbott
I would like to take this opportunity of wishing everyone the compliments of
the season. UKTeX will be back on Friday January 5 1990
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From: RMCS_TEX "BHK and CNK (from RMCS)"
Subj: *** PKZIP 1.02 for MS-DOS available ***
Version 1.02 of the PKZIP archiving utility is available from the Aston
archive. Version 1.02 offers a new compression technique ("imploding") which
is more efficient than those offered by the previous version available at
Aston (v0.92). Version 1.02 will unpack ZIP-files made by earlier versions of
PKZIP, but earlier versions are not likely to unpack ZIP-files made by version
1.02.
All MS-DOS software announced after this message will be compressed using this
new version, so if you use MS-DOS TeXware, I recommend that you fetch this new
version.
The files to fetch are:
[TEX-ARCHIVE.ARCHIVE-UTILS.ZIP.MS-DOS]00README.TXT
[TEX-ARCHIVE.ARCHIVE-UTILS.ZIP.MS-DOS]PKZ102.BOO
Niel Kempson
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Date: Fri, 8 DEC 89 14:52:40 GMT
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA
Subject: Re: ``Should fractions be centered on the maths axis ...''
Actually-to: <INFOTEX@ASTON>
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA>
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Reply-to: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vaxa>
Originally-to: $UK-TEX
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.5 ( 13-OCT-1989 14:07:27 )
Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull> recently wrote:
"I had to write about 5$\frac{1}{4}$in disks last week (LaTeX rather
than plain TeX). Should these fractions be centred on the maths
axis or the preceding character or what? The default (maths axis)
looked rather low for an in-line fraction when I was being picky."
In a recent book, I decided to use `old-style' fractions in preference
to the TeX standard; the pertinent macros follow:-
Philip Taylor
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College.
--------
\def \fraction #1#2{%
\begingroup
\setbox 0 = \hbox {(}%
\everymath = {\scriptstyle}%
\setbox 2 = \hbox {$#1$}%
\setbox 4 = \hbox {$#2$}%
\setbox 6 = \hbox {/}%
\dimen 0 = \ht 0
\dimen 2 = \dp 0
\advance \dimen 0 by -\ht 2
\advance \dimen 2 by -\dp 4
\raise \dimen 0 \box 2
\kern -0.333333 \wd 6
\box 6
\kern -0.666666 \wd 6
\lower \dimen 2 \box 4
\endgroup
}
\def \sixteenth {\fraction {1} {16}}
\def \quarter {\fraction {1} {4}}
\def \half {\fraction {1} {2}}
\def \threequarter {\fraction {3} {4}}
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From: Sebastian P Q Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 89 17:06:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP@uk.ac.aston.kirk's message of Fri, 8 DEC 89 14:00:52 GMT <16139.8912081415@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: footers different width from text (UKTeX V89 #43)
>>>>> On Fri, 8 DEC 89 14:00:52 GMT, ABBOTTP@uk.ac.aston.kirk said:
> I'm tring to design a page layout in LaTeX with a widish \marginparwidth
> (about 2 in) and \textwidth around 4 in. The problem is that I would like
> page headers or footers the full width of the page, covering both the
> margin and the text, possibly including a full-width horizontal rule.
> I've tried using \leftskip and \rightskip, which works except that I get
> overfull hbox messages. I would also like to try full-width section
> headers at some point, but I guess it's a similar problem. Can anyone help?
the real gurus will no doubt correct me, but I found that to solve a
similar problem I had to fiddle with LaTeX's page output routines, which
insists that headers and footers have the same LH edge as the main
text. I wanted headers and footers that stuck into the left margin, so
I coerced the headings section into giving me the width I wanted, and
then fiddled output as follows; where I put !!, I have added a line to
move the next thing left the anount of \sectionleftindent (which is
merely the dimension I defined for the difference between textwidth
and desired width.
sebastian rahtz, waiting for phil taylor to pounce
- ---
% we've got our own output routine, because we want the
% footers and headers to stick into the left margin
\def\@outputpage{\begingroup\catcode`\ =10
\let\-\@dischyph \let\'\@acci \let\`\@accii \let\=\@acciii
\if@specialpage
\global\@specialpagefalse\@nameuse{ps@\@specialstyle}\fi
\if@twoside
\ifodd\count\z@ \let\@thehead\@oddhead \let\@thefoot\@oddfoot
\let\@themargin\oddsidemargin
\else \let\@thehead\@evenhead
\let\@thefoot\@evenfoot \let\@themargin\evensidemargin
\fi\fi
\shipout
\vbox{\normalsize \baselineskip\z@ \lineskip\z@
\let\par\@@par %% 15 Sep 87
\vskip \topmargin \moveright\@themargin
\vbox{\setbox\@tempboxa
\vbox to\headheight{\vfil\hbox to\textwidth
{\let\label\@gobble \let\index\@gobble
\@thehead}} %% 22 Feb 87
\moveleft\sectionleftindent\box\@tempboxa %% !! SPQR
\vskip \headsep
\box\@outputbox\baselineskip\footskip%
\moveleft\sectionleftindent% % !! SPQR
\hbox to\textwidth{\let\label\@gobble%
\let\index\@gobble %% 22 Feb 87
\@thefoot}}}\global\@colht\textheight
\endgroup\stepcounter{page}\let\firstmark\botmark}
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From: KIRK::RMCS_TEX "BHK and CNK (from RMCS)" 8-DEC-1989 19:11:17.07
Subj: *** TIE change file merger now available ***
TIE is now available from the Aston TeX archive. TIE is a WEB change file
merger (featured in TUGboat vol7, no 3) by Klaus Guntermann, with
modifications by Joachim Schrod. TIE can accept a master WEB file and up to 9
change files and will produce a new master WEB file or composite change file.
The WEB source is provided along with change files and an executable for
MS-DOS. If you're interested, the files to get are:
Generic TIE files:
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE]00README.TXT
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE]COPYING.TXT
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE]MS-DOS.DIR
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE]TIE.WEB
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE]TIEDOC.TEX
MS-DOS specific files:
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]00README.TXT
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]TIE.CF1
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]TIE.CF2
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]TIE.CF3
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]TIE.CHF
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]TIE.CMD
[TEX-ARCHIVE.WEB.TIE.MS-DOS]TIEEXE.BOO
Niel Kempson
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From: KIRK::RMCS_TEX "BHK and CNK (from RMCS)" 8-DEC-1989 19:47:41.01
Subj: *** Latest version of sbTeX now available ***
The latest version (sb29TeX) of Wayne Sullivan's excellent implementation of
TeX for the IBM PC is now available from the Aston TeX archive.
sb29TeX is a Turbo Pascal v5 port of TeX v2.991 for the IBM PC by Wayne G.
Sullivan <wsulivan@irlearn.bitnet>. The implementation uses a virtual memory
technique to maximize the memory capacity. sb29TeX allows the user to adjust
the size of some of TeX's arrays and also provides support for the 'E' option.
INITeX and VIRTeX programs are provided, along with the PLAIN.TEX macro
package and the TFM files for the Computer Modern fonts. Source code is not
provided.
The TE editor by Peter Sawatski <fe617@dhafeu11.bitnet> is provided as part of
the package. TE enables you to review any errors found during the TeX run,
using the log file to move automatically to the points in the source code
where the errors were detected.
In performance terms, this is easily the best implementation of TeX for the PC
that I have encountered - it's at least twice as fast as its nearest rival
(preloaded DOSTeX v2.93), and with as little as 570,000 bytes free, you have a
full size (64kB main memory) TeX.
The files to fetch are:
[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.SBTEX]00README.TXT
[TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.SBTEX]SB29TEX.BOO
NOTE: you must have PKUNZIP v1.02 to unpack this - fetch
[TEX-ARCHIVE.ARCHIVE-UTILS.ZIP.MS-DOS]00README.TXT
if you need more details.
Niel Kempson
(pp Aston TeX archive group)
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From: KIRK::RMCS_TEX "BHK and CNK (from RMCS)" 8-DEC-1989 20:07:05.65
Subj: *** Latest version of the DVI2XX IBM 3812/HP LaserJet driver available ***
Version 0.48 of the TeX DVI drivers for the Hewlett Packard LaserJet and the
IBM 3812 Page Printer written by Gustaf Neumann <neumann@awiwuw11.bitnet> are
now available from the TeX archive. The drivers provide the (very useful)
facility for sending the output directly to the printer, reducing disk space
usage and avoiding the problems of printing binary files under MS-DOS.
Version 0.48 (which replaces v0.46 on the archive) corrects some minor bugs
produces smaller LaserJet output files.
Both drivers support PK/GF/PXL font formats, but no fonts are provided.
The source code (for Microsoft C v5 or later) is provided. The printer
supported is selected using compiler conditionals.
The drivers also work on most Un*x systems.
The files to fetch are:
[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.NEUMANN]00README.TXT
[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.NEUMANN]NEUMANN.BOO
[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.NEUMANN]SOURCES.BOO
NOTE: you must have PKUNZIP v1.02 to unpack this - fetch
[TEX-ARCHIVE.ARCHIVE-UTILS.ZIP.MS-DOS]00README.TXT
if you need more details.
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Subject: Re: UKTeX #43
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Hi,
Jack Levy asks about a pagestyle that defines the headers to
be as wide as the width of the text plus the marginpars.
This, I happen to have done a couple of months ago. I hereby
submit it to the public domain.
I hope this is what you were looking for. (A copy will be sent
to TeXhax as well)
Regards,
Johannes Braams
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%
% File : lh.sty
% For use with LaTeX version 2.09
%
% Copyright : Johannes Braams (BRAAMS@HLSDNL5.BITNet or JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl)
% This file may be distributed as long as the copyright
% notice is distributed with it.
% Original : 23-MAR-1989
% Modified : 31-JUL-1989 wider headers
%
% This file redefines the headings pagestyle to include a line
% in the header. The width of the line is equal to the width of the text.
%
% This file is intended for use with the book style option because
% it enables the 'headings' pagestyle by default
%
% Define the dimension for the header
%
\newdimen\headwidth
%
% Make the heading as wide as the text plus the marginpar's
%
\headwidth\textwidth
\advance\headwidth by \marginparsep \advance\headwidth by \marginparwidth
%
% We need some extra boxes for the headers
%
\newbox\et@p\newbox\ot@p
%
% Define a box to contain the line
%
\newbox\@linebox
\setbox\@linebox\hbox \bgroup \rule[-8\fboxrule]{\headwidth}{\fboxrule} \egroup
\wd\@linebox 0pt
%
% Now redefine the 'headings' page style (taken from report.doc)
% Definition of 'headings' page style
% Note the use of ##1 for parameter of \def\chaptermark inside the
% \def\ps@headings.
%
\if@twoside % If two-sided printing.
\def\ps@headings{\let\@mkboth\markboth
%
% Define commands to fill two heading boxes
%
\def\mot@p{\setbox\ot@p\vbox to\headheight{%
\hbox to \headwidth{\copy\@linebox%
\hbox{}\sl \rightmark \hfil \rm\thepage}% Right heading.
}\wd\ot@p\textwidth}
%
\def\met@p{\setbox\et@p\vbox to\headheight{%
\hbox to \headwidth{\copy\@linebox%
\rm \thepage\hfil \sl \leftmark\null}% Left heading.
}\wd\et@p\textwidth}
%
\def\@oddfoot{}\def\@evenfoot{}% No feet.
\def\@evenhead{\hskip-\marginparwidth\hskip-\marginparsep\met@p%
\box\et@p\hfill\null}%% Left heading
\def\@oddhead{\mot@p\box\ot@p}%% Right heading.
%
\def\chaptermark##1{\markboth {\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
\@chapapp\ \thechapter. \ \fi ##1}{}}%
\def\sectionmark##1{\markright {\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\z@
\thesection. \ \fi ##1}}}
\else % If one-sided printing.
\def\ps@headings{\let\@mkboth\markboth
%
% Define a command to fill the heading box
%
\def\mot@p{\setbox\ot@p\vbox to\headheight{%
\hbox to \headwidth{\copy\@linebox%
\hbox{}\sl \rightmark \hfil \rm\thepage}% Right heading.
}\wd\ot@p\textwidth}
%
\def\@oddhead{\mot@p\box\ot@p}\let\@evenhead\@oddhead% Headings.
\def\@oddfoot{}\def\@evenfoot{}% No feet.
\def\chaptermark##1{\markright {\ifnum \c@secnumdepth >\m@ne
\@chapapp\ \thechapter. \ \fi ##1}}}
\fi
%
% Reactivate the headings pagestyle
%
\ps@headings
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 89 12:41:09
From: CS1CWM @ UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA
Subject: GAWK for MS-DOS
As an addition to Dave Love's note on SpiderWEB, MS-DOS users can replace
Un*X AWK by GNU's GAWK (v2.10) which I have been using for some time without
problems (except command line programs, an MS-DOS problem).
Chris Martin
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 89 16:27:26 GMT
Message-Id: <1651.8912111627@alonzo.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: dvi to LJ
Users of Gustav Neumann's excellent dvi to LJ driver, of which version
48 recently hit the Aston archive, may like to watch out for a small
nasty - the Makefile defines a symbol FONTAREA, which is where you get
your .pk files from, but the dvi2xx.c program itself (in findfile.h)
does not check that this symbol has been set, and sets it again,
overriding whatever you put in the Makefile. This drives you potty if
you on a Unix system where the fonts live miles from your current
directory, as the default FONTAREA is `fonts'.
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 89 16:29:50 GMT
From: D_ECK @ UK.AC.SALFORD.SYSC
Subject: PCTeX and Novell network
Is anyone successfully running PCTeX (from Personal TeX Inc) on a Novell
Network of PCs? Our Maths and Comp Sci Dept are having trouble with the
PCTEX.EXE menu program, which claims it cannot find TEX.EXE, even though
the directory containing it is on the DOS path. If this rings any bells
for anyone, we would be grateful to hear from you.
Cheers,
Dave Eckersley
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Subject: [R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull: Re: tabbing, font changes (Re: UKTeX V89 #43)]
Subject: Re: LaTeX questions
From: Leslie Lamport <lamport@com.dec.src>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 89 13:41:40 PST
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It is suggested that I send the following two queries to you.
Both have been "solved" by discussion with other UK users, but
both seem to leave outstanding unexplained "features" of LaTeX.
Comments either to me or to the UK TeX bulletin would be
appreciated.
I gather that the two problems are (1) the lack of an error message in
the incorrect tabbing environment, and (2) the problem with the twocolumn
text.
1. The improper handling of incorrect input is regretable, but not
regarded as a bug. Getting proper behaviour on correct input was a
hard enough job; all I can promise is a "best effort" attempt at handling
incorrect input.
2. The example that caused the bad two-column text includes an \hrule
command. \hrule is not a LaTeX command. I do not have time to look at
problems with non-LaTeX input.
Leslie Lamport
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Date: Wed, 13 DEC 89 19:32:36 GMT
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: ***** Announcing TeX v2.993 for VAX/VMS *****
Actually-to: <INFOTEX@ASTON>
Sender: JANET"TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS" <TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS>
Acknowledge-to: RMCS TeX Account
Originally-to: CBS%ASTON::INFOTEX
Originally-from:TEX "RMCS TeX Account"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.5 ( 13-OCT-1989 14:07:27 )
Readers of TeXhax will have seen (v89 #110) that Sch\"opf \& Mittelbach have
once again discovered a bug in TeX, and that Don Knuth has progressed to
v2.993. Although the new .WEB file is not yet available, I have incorporated
his changes into my implementation for VMS, and the revised change file (to be
applied to v2.992 of TeX.web) is now at Aston in [TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.NEW.VMS].
One extra change that I made, not in his announcement, was to change the
version number printed in the banner line. The file TEX-BIGTEX.CH has also
altered to reflect this latter change.
For those who are already using my v2.992 port, and don't want the bother of
collecting a 135kB change file, I have also placed there the file TEX.DIF.
This is a SUMSLP difference file, and will generate the v2.993 change file
from the present v2.992 one, PROVIDED you haven't changed it in any way since
you collected it from Aston. Just say:
$ EDIT/SUM TEX.CH/UPDATE=TEX.DIF
to generate the new version of TEX.CH.
For those too lazy to fetch this, here is the contents of TEX.DIF (between the
lines of asterisks)
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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- 91
13-DEC-1989 BHK <tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs>
Added DEK's changes (bugfix 339 - see TeXhax V89 #110) (V2.993-0)
- 106
<<<<<<Modified 13-DEC-1989 by BHK>>>>>
- 112, 112
<\def\title{\TeX82 V2.993 for VAX/VMS: 13th Dec 1989}
- 116
<<<<<<Modified 13-DEC-1989 by BHK>>>>>
- 123, 123
<@d banner=='This is TeX, Version 2.993-0 on VAX/VMS'
- 1650, 1653
<<<<<<Modified 13-DEC-1989 by BHK [DEK in TeXhax V89 #110]>>>>>
<@x [28] directories delimited with square brackets
<@ And here's the second.
<@^system dependencies@>
<@p function more_name(@!c:ASCII_code):boolean;
begin if c=" " then more_name:=false
else begin if (c=">")or(c=":") then
begin area_delimiter:=pool_ptr; ext_delimiter:=0;
end
else if (c=".")and(ext_delimiter=0) then ext_delimiter:=pool_ptr;
str_room(1); append_char(c); {contribute |c| to the current string}
<@y
<@ And here's the second. The string pool might change as the file name is
being scanned, since a new \.{\\cnamse} might be netered; therefore we keep
|area_delimiter| and |ext_delimiter| relative to the beginning of the current
string, instead of assigning an absolute address like |pool_ptr| to them.
<@^system dependencies@>
<@p function more_name(@!c:ASCII_code):boolean;
begin if c=" " then more_name:=false
else begin str_room(1); append_char(c); {contribute |c| to the current string}
if (c=">")or(c="]")or(c=":") then
begin area_delimiter:=cur_length; ext_delimiter:=0;
end
else if (c=".")and(ext_delimiter=0) then ext_delimiter:=cur_length;
- 1657
<<<<<<Modified 13-DEC-1989 by BHK [DEK in TeXhax V89 #110]>>>>>
- 1711, 1712
else begin cur_area:=str_ptr;
str_start[str_ptr+1]:=str_start[str_ptr]+area_delimiter; incr(str_ptr);
- 1717, 1718
else begin cur_name:=str_ptr;
str_start[str_ptr+1]:=str_start[str_ptr]+ext_delimiter-area_delimiter-1;
incr(str_ptr); cur_ext:=make_string;
/
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From: Sebastian P Q Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 11:13:44 GMT
Message-Id: <243.8912141113@alonzo.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: speakers for UK TeX Users Group on bibliography and indexing
The UK TeX Users Group is holding a meeting in London in late
February on the theme of tools for bibliographies, indexing and all
such items. If any reader of UKTeX has a short paper they wish to
contribute on a related topic, could they contact me as soon as
possible? For instance, if you have got to grips with things like tib,
glotex, the texinfo system, other people would like to gain from your
experience.
Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)
Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)
tel: 0703 592435
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Via: UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL; Fri, 15 Dec 89 15:25 GMT
Via: UK.AC.ABERDEEN.TEST; Fri, 15 Dec 89 15:26 GMT
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 15:21:30 BST
From: D.C.LINDSEY@UK.AC.ABERDEEN
Reply-To: d.c.lindsey@uk.ac.aberdeen
Subject: Pagenumbering in letter.sty
Message-ID: <891215.15264172.052895@ABERDEEN.CP6>
Anyone know how to turn off the page numbering in the footer of second
and subsequent pages of letters when using letter.sty?
Obvious solutions like \pagestyle{empty} don't seem to work
Dave Lindsey (d.c.lindsey@uk.ac.aberdeen)
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From: Sebastian P Q Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 17:28:47 GMT
Message-Id: <1130.8912151728@alonzo.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: LaTeX versions
poking around today at Stanford, I noticed that LaTeX is now dated
December 5th 1989. I append the start of latex.bug, which people may
find useful to see what they need. I will transfer files to Aston
later today:
Sebastian Rahtz
LATEST VERSIONS OF FILES -- LaTeX Version 2.09
ADDENDUM.TEX 31 Oct 89 ARTICLE.DOC/STY 16 Mar 88 LATEX.BUG 7 Dec 89
IDX.TEX 22 Jan 85 ART10.DOC/STY 22 Dec 87 LATEX.DIF 28 Apr 88
LABLST.TEX 5 Jan 85 ART11.DOC/STY 22 Dec 87 LATEX.INS 20 Sep 88
LATEX.TEX 7 Dec 89 ART12.DOC/STY 22 Dec 87 LOCAL.GID 24 Sep 85
LFONTS.TEX 21 Nov 89 BEZIER.DOC/STY 17 Dec 85 LFONTS.AMR 6 May 86
LOCAL.TEX 27 Oct 88 BOOK.DOC/STY 13 Nov 89
LPLAIN.TEX 20 Oct 88 BK10.DOC/STY 19 Jan 88
MAKEINDEX.TEX 17 Feb 87 BK11.DOC/STY 19 Jan 88
SAMPLE.TEX 9 Apr 86 BK12.DOC/STY 19 Jan 88
SFONTS.TEX 27 Oct 89 FLEQN.DOC/STY 26 Sep 89
SLITEX.TEX 4 Dec 89 IFTHEN.DOC/STY 16 Dec 86
SMALL.TEX 5 Jul 85 LETTER.DOC/STY 20 Sep 88
SPLAIN.TEX 11 Oct 87 LEQNO.DOC/STY 14 Jun 85
TESTPAGE.TEX 20 Jul 87 MAKEIDX.DOC/STY 20 Jan 87
TRYFONTS.TEX 11 Nov 86 OPENBIB.DOC/STY 12 Oct 87
PROC.DOC/STY 24 Sep 85
REPORT.DOC/STY 13 Nov 89
REP10.DOC/STY 19 Jan 88
REP11.DOC/STY 19 Jan 88
REP12.DOC/STY 19 Jan 88
SHOWIDX.DOC/STY 11 Oct 89
SLIDES.DOC/STY 17 Jan 86
TITLEPAGE.DOC/STY 27 Jan 85
TWOCOLUMN.DOC/STY 27 Jan 85
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Via: UK.AC.RO-GREENWICH; Tue, 19 Dec 89 16:12 GMT
Date: Tue, 19 DEC 89 16:14:04 GMT
From: PUBS@UK.AC.RO-GREENWICH
Hi,
I am writing to inquire if you can help me find
the following fonts for TeX:-
Times
Plantin
Imprint
I work in the Nautical Almanac Office of the
Royal Greenwich Observatory, where we publish
various annual publications, such as The Nautical
Almanac, The Astronomical Almanac and The Star
Almanac.
At present we have TeX with the CM fonts, running
on a Vax 11/750 and on the STARLINK node, which we
use for reports and drafting papers. We are
considering producing some sections, if not all of our
publications in-house, and therefore would like to
maintain the same fonts.
Needless to say I'm a TeX fan and would like to have
the ability to produce tables, maths, and text in a
similar style to the other parts of the publications.
I have extracted your names (Peter Abbot and Malcolm Clark)
from the TUGboat journal, so I hope that you can help.
Thank you
Catherine Hohenkerk
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Subject: Unix TeX 2.99/ Metafont 1.7 tape
Date: Wed Dec 20 09:03:44 1989
From: judy@uucp.harwell
Dear Peter,
Thanks for copying the Unix TeX distribution for me. However, it did not
compile straight away, and for the benefit of anyone else compiling TeX 2.99
etc., here are the problems I had :
1) ctex/extra.c will not compile on either our Sun (SunOS 3.5) or MicroVax
(Ultrix 3.1), and I suspect on anything much else because tex.h is included
twice (the second time vi texd.h) ! Here are the diffs:
diff extra.c extra.c.dist
11,16c11
< /* JPB removed the following line - otherwise it won't compile */
< /* #include "tex.h"
< #define EXTERN /* Actually instantiate globals here */
< #include "texd.h"
<
< /* This WAS above the define EXTERN - put here to avoid multiple MAXPATHLEN */
---
> #include "tex.h"
20a16,17
> #define EXTERN /* Actually instantiate globals here */
> #include "texd.h"
2) mfware/gftopk (and probably the other utilities) will not compile because
of references in mfwarext.c to strings used by gftodvi (which I think is
only provided in the older version in mfware/CMFware anyway. The following
diffs work, provided you recompile mfwarext.c if you want gftodvi to use it.
diff -h mfwarext.c mfwarext.c.dist
154,158c154,155
< /* JPB - these must be left out for gftopk to compile */
< #ifdef GFTODVI
extern char grayfontpath[], labelfontpath[], slantfontpath[];
extern char titlefontpath[]; /* these four needed only by GFtoDVI */
< #endif GFTODVI
---
extern char grayfontpath[], labelfontpath[], slantfontpath[];
extern char titlefontpath[]; /* these four needed only by GFtoDVI */
204d200
< #ifdef GFTODVI
209d204
< #endif GFTODVI
the last change removes references to the variables!
3) DVIware/.../ln03/ln03dvi compiles, but does not run correctly on Sun
workstations - ln03specials.c uses the "tolower" macro to lowercase
a string before comparing it. Unfortunately on Suns, this does not check
first to see if the string was upper case. Therefore, if anyone wants to
use any specials with ln03dvi on a Sun, they must change this.
4) Finally, it may have been my tape copy, rather than yours, but is Spiderweb
on the original tape corrupt? A number of files, including doc/cacm.tex
disintegrate into nulls (cacm.tex after line 174) after a few sensible lines.
Can you tell me if the copy in the archive is also in this state, or is it
my tape?
Judy Booth,
Computer Science & Systems Division,
Harwell Laboratory,
OXON.
judy%harwell.uucp@uk.ac.ukc
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Fax from Roger C H Horne
7 New Square
Lincoln's Inn
London
WC2A 3QS
Subject: TeX for the Archimedes
Peter,
Graham Toal mentioned in UKTeX on the 14th November that he had seen a new
version of TeX for the Archimedes advertised. He is correct in thinking it is
produced by Edgar FuB of Tools GmbH; it is imaginatively called `ArchiTeX'. A
few weeks ago I was sent (via Malcolm Clark) a pre-release version to test.
TeX itself is, well, TeX. It is plainly a C-version and on my A310 processes
`TeX the Program' in almost exactly the same time as the version which Graham
supplied me with 18 months ago. The only difference between the two versions
is file-naming. The Archimedes operating system uses dots to separate
directories and does not support file extensions. Graham's version of TeX
required the creation of a directory eg `paper', the `tex', `dvi' and `log'
files becoming files in that directory. ArchiTeX does the opposite and stores
a file called `paper' in the directories `tex', `dvi' and `log'. The latter
scheme is the one that Acorn uses for its version of C. Both schemes have
advantages and disadvantages.
ArchiTeX comes with a screen previewer and printer drivers for about half a
dozen printers, including the HP laser jet. The previewer is fast although the
95dpi fonts supplied are not as clear as they might be. (It can use any size
of font.) I have not as yet tested the printer drivers; my first attempt to do
so failed for reasons that are not clear. Then my hard disc sized up and I
have not as yet put the 300dpi fonts onto my replacement disc.
TeX will not work from the DeskTop on a 1 megabyte machine, but it will work
from the command line.
The previewer will work from the DeskTop and can also be run from the command
line.
For \pounds 99 plus VAT (at the odd rate, according to Acorn User of 14%) it is
good value. It is claimed that METAFONT is also available.
Roger
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From: Sebastian P Q Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 89 17:25:30 GMT
Message-Id: <21463.8912211725@caxton.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: 255 character fonts on HP LJ II
Readers of UK TeX who use Neumann's excellent dvi2lj program may like
to know that despite appearances, it does understand 255 character
pk fonts, such as Levy's Greek. Unfortunately, because it takes both .pk
and .pxl format, it assumes you are limited to 127 if USEPXL is
defined (if you have gf format, then its all OK anyway). So to make
it drive a 256 character font, you have to hack the source and define
LASTFONTCHAR to be 255 _even if USEPXL is defined_, and recompile it.
Works a treat at that point.
yrs happily Greeking
Sebastian Rahtz
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