UKTeX V90 #11 Friday 6 April 1990
TeXserver has had a hiccup :-< but is better now :-)
Drawing Feynman diagrams in TeX/METAFONT or Postscript
Re: DVI to PostScript drivers
Editor Peter Abbott
I have a cheque and labels from Dr Francesc Cornellas, Barcelona, Spain but
no information on what to send from the archive.
I have a cheque and details of items required from Gustav Jeppesen, Denmark
but no return address.
Note that Friday April 13 is Good Friday and there will be no UKTeX.
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #36
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V3N4 (in 2 parts)
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Date: Mon, 2 APR 90 12:55:26 BST
From: ARCHIVEGROUP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAX.KIRK
Subject: RE:
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From spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs Fri Mar 30 14:44:02 1990
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 90 13:51:45 gmt
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Subject: RE:
> > Can you help please, I tried to process the UKTEX.TEX set of files
> >with LaTeX but do not have TREE.STY. I cannot find it either in
> >TEX-ARCHIVE.LATEX or TEX-ARCHIVE.DOC.LATEX. Our system library doesn't hol
> I have to confess, I don't know what `the UKTEX.TEX set of files'
> is! Can you confirm (or deny) that TREE.STY is Anne
> Bruggeman-Klein's tree-drawing macro package ?
tree.sty is NOT Bruggeman-Klein, but another, simpler system
tree.sty should be [tex-archive.latex.contrib]trees.sty, a misspelling
appeared somewhere. my apologies
Sebastian Rahtz
I am now sorted out and thanks for that. There is an enormous volume of ma
material in the archive. It would be good to be able to log onto it
interactively as with the pdsoft archive here at Lancaster. Any chance
of that coming ?
Thanks again
John Crookes
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Date: Wed, 4 APR 90 19:22:42 BST
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: TeXserver has had a hiccup :-< but is better now :-)
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Reply-to: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TeX@Uk.Ac.Cranfield.RMCS>
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Originally-from:TEX "Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TeX@Uk.Ac.Cranfield.RMCS>"
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(For UkTeX)
The TeXserver experienced a problem between 30-MAR-1990 and 04-APR-1990. I
have only now been able to fix it, because my connection via Janet to Aston
was sundered in the interim.
Somewhere in the system, a rogue mailer decided to start delivering the same
request from a user at intervals of less than a minute: TeXserver honoured as
many requests as it could before running out of workspace; the message
continued to be delivered, and after the batch job had failed (late on the
evening of Friday 30th), a further 3699 messages were delivered.
I've had to assume that all these were the same rogue messages, because by the
time the receipts have been issued, I am unable to select messages based on
the originator: they have all been deleted. Therefore all requests received
since Friday 30th may have been lost. If you haven't received information
requested, please request it again. If you have received an acknowledgement,
but not the information requested, I suggest that you too should request the
information again.
(And if you think this is hard on you, pity the poor guy who kept on getting
hundreds of copies of the files that he'd requested!)
Many apologies for this hiccup in the service
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Date: Thu, 5 APR 90 14:15:38 BST
From: ARCHIVEGROUP@UK.AC.ASTON.VAXA
Subject: Drawing Feynman diagrams in TeX/METAFONT or Postscript
Reply-To: njr@uk.ac.ed.castle (Nick Radcliffe),
Aston TeX Archivists <Archivegroup@Uk.Ac.Aston.VaxA>
Originally-sent:30 Mar 90 16:55:16 GMT
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Originally-from:njr@uk.ac.ed.castle (Nick Radcliffe)
I am interested in producing Feynman diagrams in TeX or LaTeX documents.
I really need one of the following, therefore:
1. some METAFONT definitions together with, perhaps, some macros
to allow them to be used reasonably easily;
2. some kind of a Feynman diagram compiler which takes a specification
of some sort and produces Postscript as its output;
3. failing either of these, some raw Postscript procedures which
draw useful things.
If anyone has anything along these lines that they'd be willing
to share, I'd be most grateful as I don't have time to write
any of these at the moment.
*Please* mail me if you do, as I don't always manage to read these groups.
Thanks.
--
Nick Radcliffe <NRadcliffe@uk.ac.ed>
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From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 14:13:55 gmt
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Subject: (for uktex) Re: DVI to PostScript drivers
Tony J Ibbs writes
> 3) DVI to PostScript drivers
> DVItoPS
> UNIX and MS-DOC program, with VMS DIFFERENCE output for how to convert
...
> Relatively basic options, and UNIX style command line
`basic'? I'd have said it had a good set of options.
> Snags: Landscape mode is per-page - this is not really too good.
its not that tricky to put the \special in at the end of every page:
\edef\@PlainOutput{\the\output}%
\def\@LandScapeOutput{\@PlainOutput%
\ifnum\outputpenalty<-'1000000000\else\special{dvitops:landscape}\fi%
}%
\output={\@LandScapeOutput}\fi
.
.
.
> DVIPS
...
> Good PS comment structure, and the comments can be suppressed (it says
> that some printers get confused by them)
note that though Rokicki's PostScript is good, it isn't
perfect. At least two programs I use (`up' and `mpage') to produce `2
up' or `6 up' small pages on one physical sheet of paper fail with
dvips, but work perfectly with dvitops.
please also note that Rokicki already supports the new `virtual fonts'
now recommended by Knuth. These are a great boon for the PostScript
mapping problem.
> I'm not interested). If people care, I can send my modified DVItoPS to
> the archive, but it's in the traditional `I want to improve it later'
> state (unless someone else has already done so...)
the current release of DVITOPS in the archive has the VMS changes merged in by
the author
sebastian rahtz
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