UKTeX Digest Friday, 24 Aug 1990
Volume 90 : Issue 28
Today's Topics:
Euler fonts in strange sizes
LAST30DAYS.FILES stuck?
Re: Landscape mode for HP LaserJet
HP LaserJet driver for HP 300 workstations?
Re: HP LaserJet driver for HP 300 workstations?
Re: HP LaserJet driver for HP 300 workstations?
Any X previewers support colour?
Mode_def for LPS-20?
mega TeX runs out?
LaTeX Course - Help needed!
UK TeX Archive sweatshirts
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 13:03:37 -0000
From: Tim Bradshaw <tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr>
Subject: Euler fonts in strange sizes
I am in the early stages of working up a LaTeX document style which
will use the concrete fonts with Euler maths (as in `Concrete maths').
I am using the new font selection scheme for LaTeX, and I've been
looking at the `concrete.sty' file provided with it. in this file, a
whole bunch of small-size Euler fonts (eurm & euex) are used. I would
like to use these too, especially the euex, but we have a much more
limited set of pk files (5,7,10 for euex, 9,10 for eurm).
I know the metafont source isn't available for these, but obviously
someone, somewhere, has the pks & tfms. So... can anyone tell me
where they are?
Thanks
- --tim
Tim Bradshaw. Internet: tim%ed.cstr@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cstr!tim JANET: tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 16:25:09 -0000
From: Chris Martin <CS1CWM@uk.ac.sheffield.primea>
Subject: LAST30DAYS.FILES stuck?
Peter:
Is there something amiss with 000LAST30DAYS.FILES? The latest change in it
is dated 5th August and UKTeX issue 27 has notices of a number of later changes
Chris Martin
{ The batch job which generates 000LAST30DAYS.FILES and 000DIRECTORY.LIST
has now been resurrected and the files are up-to-date. --Ed. }
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 10:46:25 -0000
From: Mike Glendinning <GLENDINNING@SDSTC>
Subject: Re: Landscape mode for HP LaserJet
Some weeks ago, Nick North from NPL posted a query about landscape printing
on the HP LaserJet. Since Nick seems to be interested in using the Beebe
driver, and the query seems to have gone only half answered, I'll chip-in
a few details about HP LaserJet landscape support for the Beebe driver.
About two and a half years ago, I posted a similar request to UKTeX, which
was promptly answered with some source code from a very helpful chap from
Zengrange ltd. in Leeds. I've long since forgotten exactly who it was,
but I'm fairly sure it was someone from Zengrange! The source code
consists of a set of modifications to the Beebe DVIJEP program to allow
printing in landscape mode. I used them quite successfully with a
Kyocera (LaserJet compatible), and experienced no problems. I also seem
to remember sending a copy to Mark Damerell, one Sunday afternoon!
Anyway, if these modifications (or an equivalent) have not found their
way into the general Beebe distribution, I will be glad to dig into my
archives at Manchester and find the relevant mail messages and source
code. At least then I can properly credit the people involved, and
(with permission) make the source code more generally available if
anyone wants it. It would probably need updating to work with the current
Beebe release.
Mike Glendinning,
SD-Scicon Software Technology Centre (0276 686200).
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 16:57:51 -0000
From: Peter Maksym <MAP@UK.AC.LEICESTER>
Subject: HP LaserJet driver for HP 300 workstations?
Can I get a driver to print tex files on a HP laserjet II printer? I have
HP 300 series workstations, running HP-UX 6.2 and a 3340AB laserjet with
an extra 1 M byte of memory.
Please send reply to MAP@tp.le.ac.uk.
Regards,
Peter Maksym
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 17:57:53 -0000
From: Peter Maksym <MAP@UK.AC.LEICESTER>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet driver for HP 300 workstations?
Thanks for your prompt reply to my query about laserjet drivers.
The term "BOO encoded ZIP archives" is meaningless
to me. Can they be decompressed by any of the programs I know about ie
decompress, uncompact and unpack under unix or zoo on the vax?
Regards,
Peter Maksym
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 18:06:22 -0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet driver for HP 300 workstations?
MAP@UK.AC.LEICESTER writes:
> The term "BOO encoded ZIP archives" is meaningless
oh dear
> to me. Can they be decompressed by any of the programs I know about ie
> decompress, uncompact and unpack under unix or zoo on the vax?
no. you need a copy of deboo.c (compile it) - appended, and a copy of
PKUNZIP on a PC. i will send you a shar archive of a program you can
compile ona Unix machine.
{ The source of deboo.c can be found in the archive in
[tex-archive.archive-utils.boo]deboo.c --Ed. }
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 00:21:56 -0000
From: Adrian F. Clark <alien%uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Any X previewers support colour?
I need to make some colour slides for a conference presentation, and
the least painful way to do this would be to photograph my
workstation's screen. The thing is, the slides need to be in colour
(ideally, they'd also contain grey-scale pictures, but I guess that's
asking for too much). Do any of the X previewers support changing the
colour of the background or current font via \specials? If it's any
help, the target workstation is a Sun 386i.
Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex
INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 10:19:32 -0000
From: Robin Fairbairns <robin@uk.co.lsl>
Subject: Mode_def for LPS-20?
Once, long ago, I remember talk of a library of canonical values for mode-defs
to be maintained in the archive. It doesn't seem to have happened.
Laser-Scan is now the proud owner of a DEC LPS-20 PostScript printer. Does
anyone know what mode_def values are appropriate for it? I have spotted a hint
(though nowhere anything explicit) in the manuals that it's a write-black
engine; thus I wouldn't expect our previous LN03-targetted fonts to be remotely
useful for it...
Robin Fairbairns, Senior Consultant, postmaster and general dogsbody
Laser-Scan Ltd., Science Park, Milton Rd., Cambridge CB4 4FY, UK
Tel (+44) 223 420414; Fax (+44) 223 420044; Telex 817346 LSLCAM G
Email: robin@lsl.co.uk --or-- rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (don't believe the header!)
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 90 16:40:03 -0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Subject: mega TeX runs out?
a LaTeXer here has produced a monstrous file for PiCTeX (by running
fig2tex on a monstrous Fig file). Our normal LaTeX (memory of 262141)
runs out of main memory. So I built a TeX with 1049560 words of
memory by changing the values of mem_top and max_halfword (this using
web2c, by the way) in the change file. This ran for 3 hours on an
unloaded HP 9000 Unix machine, then ran out of memory again. So
- is it legitimate to build a gross TeX simply by changing those
numbers? did I miss something else?
- anyone got any debugging suggestions?
- are there known limits in PiCTeX?
sebastian
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 90 17:11:05 -0000
From: Terry Hewitt <HEWITT@UK.AC.MANCHESTER-COMPUTING-CENTRE.GRAPHICS.VAX2>
Subject: LaTeX Course - Help needed!
In a rash moment I committed to giving a LaTeX course
at my institution! Well it was months ago...
I am now starting to develop such a course!
I would appreciate any advice and/or materials anybody
wishes to give.
If I am indundated with material, I would be prepared
to make a generic LaTeX course and make it avilable
through the archive, e.g. a set of OHPs in SliTeX.
Thanks in anticipation
Terry Hewitt
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 15:03:28 -0000
From: Our Fashion Editor <spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs>
Subject: UK TeX Archive sweatshirts
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