UKTeX Digest Friday, 16 Nov 1990
Volume 90 : Issue 40
Today's Topics:
Thesis regulations
Comments of AdaWEB
Binary BOO files
PHD style file
TeX
Re: TeX
dvi2lj for Sun 4
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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 90 22:48:39 +0000
From: David_Rhead@vme.nott.ac.uk
Subject: Thesis regulations
I've been mailed by Brian Wylie (bjnw@uk.ac.ed.castle), who is in dispute
with the Edinburgh Postgraduate Office about his thesis line-spacing.
He's produced his thesis with standard LaTeX line-length and inter-line
spacing (which would thus be acceptable to a typographic designer). Their
initial reaction was to tell him to reformat, rebind and resubmit. They're
now allowing him to appeal; the appeal will be considered at a meeting
of the relevant Edinburgh committee on 19th November.
He would like evidence to support his appeal. I've sent him:
* some odds and ends about typographic design
* a copy of the sheet from the Oxford regulations which contains
a crucial phrase about "... the layout may be that of a well-designed
book"
* a memo I received from the Nottingham Board for Postgraduate
Studies saying that LaTeX line-spacing is OK as it stands.
He's aware of the revised British Standard.
If you have any evidence from other places, preferably in the form of
specific regulations that have a "form of words" to cater for typeset
(rather than typewritten) theses, he would be pleased to receive it.
His address is:
Brian Wylie
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
James Clerk Maxwell Building
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EH9 3JZ.
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 09:26:39 +0000
From: SMA@UK.CO.NATIONAL-PHYSICAL-LAB.SEG
Subject: Comments of AdaWEB
I am using AdaWEB (part of the SpiderWEB package, available at your local TeX
archive), and would like to receive comments from anybody who has used it. Any
anecdotes, comments etc. on how easy people find it to use, do they find it
useful, how restrictive do they find it and so on. Comments from anyone who has
used it as part of a "real" project are especially welcome. Could you please
send all comments to my e-mail address. I will summarise the responses if their
is enough response and interest.
Thanks in advance,
Steve Austin
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington
Middlesex
England
TW11 0LW
E-mail : sma@seg.npl.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 09:30:52 BST
From: A.T.Watson@uk.ac.salford.sysa
Subject: Binary BOO files
I am having trouble downloading one of the files on your archive. The file
concerned is [tex-archive.metafont.ms-dos.sbmf]sbmf11.boo
I can only get this file to transfer to my local PRIME site using a binary FTP
transfer.
Once on my local system this binary downloaded file has given both me
and the advisors headaches for the past fortnight on how to copy it
from the PRIME computer to a local PC, the problem being that it is binary.
As the idea behind BOO files was to provide a method of transfering binary
files as text files I see very little point to storing BOO files as binary
files so that they have to be transfered as binaries.
Please could you explain why the file is stored as a binary, and also if there
is any other way of obtaining the file other than by FTP.
Also by post I set you a copy of DVILQ a printer driver complete with source
code for Epson LQ printers,I have had no reply from you about it, or seen
it added to the archives, please could you let me know if you received it or
not.
Thanks in advance,
A.T.Watson <A.T.Watson@uk.ac.salford.sysa>
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 14:53:00 +0000
From: CLS016@UK.AC.BANGOR.VAXC
Subject: PHD style file
I am looking for a style file for the prepreation of a PHD for submission in
the UK. Does anyone have such a file. If so where can I get a copy from
Edmund
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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 13:14:47 GMT
From: Dave Osguthorpe <D.J.Osguthorpe@uk.ac.bath.gdr>
Subject: TeX
I would like to get a copy of TeX - in particular I am looking for a TeX
with a driver for an HP Lazerjet+ lazer printer.
Thanks for your help.
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 13:22:34 GMT
From: Dave Osguthorpe <D.J.Osguthorpe@uk.ac.bath.gdr>
Subject: Re: TeX
Sorry - I am looking for a system that runs on a UNIX machine i.e. one that
uses a C compiler - I'd also be interested in a VMS version.
Specifically, in the Molecular Graphics group at Bath (which I head) we
have VMS microVAX II, UNIX Stardent TITAN minisuper and Silicon Graphics
Personal Iris workstations.
Thanks for your time and help on this matter.
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 11:55:47 +0000
From: AXFORDTH@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM.COMPUTER-SCIENCE
Subject: dvi2lj for Sun 4
Does anyone have a working driver for an HP Laserjet printer (from
dvi files) on a Sun 4 (SPARC) system? We have such a dvi2lj program
working on an IBM PC with source code in C, but, although the source
compiles OK on the SPARC the output generated has odd missing
characters! Can anyone offer any helpful advice, e.g. supply a
working program?
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