UKTeX V90 #08 Friday 16 March 1990
UKTeX V90 #07
TeX-scissors
PostScript preview
(for UKTEX) Gnu Plot version 2
Proof environment
message
dvitovdu in C (UKTeX V90 #06)
dvitovdu in C (UKTeX V90 #06)
Enhancement to TeXserver at Aston University
Editor Peter Abbott
Apologies once again for the delay, this time it was nothing to do with the
hardware. I was unavailable last Friday or yesterday.
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #30
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N4 (in 2 parts)
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 16:57:25 gmt
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Subject: UKTeX V90 #07
> From: Christoph Viebahn <UMV200@EARN.DBNRHRZ1>
> Subject: TeX-scissors
>
> My search for the symbol of a pair of scissors (intended to replace
> "please cut here" at perforation lines) has so far been unsuccessful
> within the German TeX-community. Could you give me an indication
> how I could get hold of it or how to do it myself (not a TeX- wizzard)?
If you use a PostScript printer, you will find an excellent pair of
scissors in the Zapf Dingbats font, which is easy to access from TeX
if you have a suitable Dvi driver. Otherwise, I am sure I recall
scissors in a back issue of TUGboat. If you can get access to back
issues, read there. It won't be easy, tho, to create it in Metafont if
this is your first go with it
Sebastian Rahtz
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Subject: PostScript preview
> you. Have you ever heard of a previewer which is capable of previewing
> LaTeX and a Postscript picture included in the LaTeX via \special{psfile=...}
in principle, as you say, its easy. In practice, few people seem to
have done the work. The ones I know of are for NeXT (Display
PostScript) and for GoodNeWS (the Turing Institute's enhancement of
NeWS). The latter is the easiest to try out - if you dont have
goodnews, then get back to me.
If you get a decent dvi to PS program that generates EPS (such as
dvitops), you can often just hurl pages at NeWS. Forget about CM
fonts, tho. Contact lac@uk.ac.soton.ecs (Les Carr) for further discussion.
Sebastian Rahtz
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Subject: (for UKTEX) Gnu Plot version 2
I have just installed the new version of gnuplot (2.0) at Aston. This brings
together the threads of the old gnuplot, and the variant gnutex. A
brief description follows. The files may be found in
[tex-archive.gnuplot]
at Aston.
Sebastian Rahtz
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What is Gnuplot?
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Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for
UNIX, MSDOS, and VMS platforms. The software is free. It was originally
intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students
to visualize mathematical functions and data. Additions to this version
of the software allow production of publication quality plots and data graphs.
Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers
and is easily extensible to include new devices.
Gnuplot Features:
Free!
Cartesian and Polar plots.
Logscale graphs.
Intelligent Tic spacing.
Optional Autoscaling.
Support for complex numbers.
VMS-like online help.
User-definable functions and variables.
All the builtin functions C,FORTRAN,BASIC provides.
All the unary and binary operators supported by C, and more.
MANY formatting features, such as labels, grids, and arrows.
Support for Saving and Loading work in progress.
Command line subsitution.
And lots more....
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From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP @ UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
Subject: Proof environment
Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 90 12:18:51
Resent-From: Mike Piff <PM1MJP @ SHEFFIELD.PRIMEA>
From Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sheffield,
The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, SHEFFIELD S3 7RH, England.
Tel. SHEFFIELD(0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEF.PA or PM1MJP@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM
Martin Ward asks how to set up a `Proof' environment.
What you want is \trivlist. The following is what I am using in my book. It
uses a general purpose envt-producing command to set up the style, which can be
used on things other than Proofs too:
\def\newthing#1#2#3#4#5{\newenvironment{#1}{#3 \trivlist
\item[\hskip \labelsep{\bf #2}]}{#4\endtrivlist#5}%
}
\def\QED{{\unskip\nobreak\hfil\penalty50 \hskip 5pt \hbox{}\nobreak\hfil
\vrule height 1.2ex width 1.1ex depth -.1ex
\parfillskip=0pt \finalhyphendemerits=0 \par}}
\newthing{Proof}{Proof}{\medbreak}{\QED}{\aftergroup\medbreak}
\newthing{Definition}{Definition}{\medbreak}{}{\aftergroup\medbreak}
then
\begin{Proof}
This is obvious, but too difficult to even contemplate proving.
\end{Proof}
Mike.
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I recently bought L-AmS-TeX which is very interesting but requires
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Subject: dvitovdu in C (UKTeX V90 #06)
Peter,
This got bounced from info-tex@aston. Do you have some problems
there?
/mjh
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 90 08:30:08 EST
From: mjh
Subject: dvitovdu in C (UKTeX V90 #06)
Sebastian,
Glad you like DVItoVDU in C (regards to Terry Riley!) Sorry about
the (slight) non-portability in the makefile: The code itself should be
very portable as we have run it on a variety of USG and BSD machines. The
GCC stuff was necessary on our Sequent because the native compiler is as
flakey as a pie crust (just my opinion - no slight intended!). GCC is
*much* better. As you will have noticed, the trailing dependency rules
were automatically generated - maybe there should be a `make depend' which
constructs them specifically for each site. Roll on the next release!
If you use the `fixincludes' script in your GCC distribution (we
run 1.37 if I recall correctly), then you will get the gcc-include
directory (wherever you want it) and you will not need the `-traditional'
flag.
Mark J. Hewitt
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