UKTeX Digest Friday, 30 Nov 1990
Volume 90 : Issue 42
Today's Topics:
TeX output on Epson LQ500
Wasy Fonts
Japanese TeX for DOS
Tenth Meeting of the German Speaking TeX Users in Vienna
The TeX Book (soft cover)
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 90 17:25:33 +0000
From: BENSON_AR @ LANCSP.P1
Subject: TeX output on Epson LQ500
I would appriciate it if you could release this message to TeX users
ASAP, and please add me to the TeX mailing List. I appologise for
posting via you but I hav been unable to get through any other way.
I have a problem printing TeX pages on an Epson LQ500 printer. I am
using SBTeX 3.0 and DVIFX V1.3i of EMTeX.
The problem is that no matter what length I set the page I can't get
it to print outon one sheet of A4 or printer paper or anything.
If I set the pagestyle to a4 the page is overrun by about 1in. If this
is not set the pagenumber is printed at the very top of the next page.
The following form feed seems to take it towards, but not quite to the
end of, the 2nd page. Setting \h in the FX.CNF file seems to make no
difference.
Part of my problem would seem to be that no text is printed on the
first page for about 2in whatever the pagestyle.
Any help, guidence or hints anyone can give would be appriciated.
Yours
(DV)
Alan Benson.
(BENSON_AR@UK.AC.LANCSP.P1)
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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 90 15:00:00 +0100
From: FISICA%IT.ASTRO.ASTRPD@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
Subject: Wasy Fonts
Thanks to Roland Waldi, the Wasy Fonts are now also available on the SPAN
archive. For infos mail to 39003::calvani
Max Calvani
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Date: 24 Nov 90 18:31:00 -0800
From: JALBERT%CA.UBC.CS@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY
Subject: Japanese TeX for DOS
I recently completed my work on a Japanese version of emTeX for DOS. All the
relevant material is immediately available by FTP from Tokyo on the computer
utsun (133.11.11.11).
You can now with METAFONT generate your own Japanese fonts. There are 61 fonts
of 128 characters each.
You can also create with any standard implementation of [La]TeX Japanese
documents. I also typeset beautiful Japanese music with MuTeX.
I include the file README to give you a more precise idea of the package.
- ---------------------------------- README ----------------------------------
Japanese [La]TeX for DOS
- Version 1.0 -
This is the first release (11-10-90 at 12:00p) of my utilities to generate your
own Japanese fonts and to use them with any standard implementation of [La]TeX.
Since the documentation is specifically geared towards Eberhard Mattes' emTeX,
I suggest the following be stored under something like \msdos\JemTeX.
The text files are: JGUIDE TEX 61512
JIS2MF PAS 15966
JAP2TEX PAS 11326
FONTABLE PAS 3728
SKANJI BAT 182
KANJI BAT 522
The compressed binary files are: JIS2MF EXE 7185
JAP2TEX EXE 5425
FONTABLE EXE 4792
JIS24 EXE 313710
MFINPUT COM 23255
Read the LaTeX document JGUIDE.TEX for more information. Furansowa-san
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 09:10:00 +0000
From: MALCOLM@UK.AC.ICRF
Subject: Tenth Meeting of the German Speaking TeX Users in Vienna
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Tenth Meeting of the German Speaking TeX Users in Vienna
First Announcement and Call for Papers
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The tenth meeting of the German speaking TeX users group DANTE will be
held
-> from February 20 to 22, 1991
at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria). Wednesday morning will
be reserved for the general assembly of DANTE members, and the talks,
discussions, and workshops will be held from Wednesday afternoon until
Friday morning. Attendees from all European and non-European countries
are welcome.
The official conference language will be German, but talks may also be
presented in English. Proposed topics include all aspects of TeX, LaTeX,
METAFONT, SGML and, of course, European language support.
The technical program will be supplemented by several non-technical
events like a performance of Mozart's ``Magic Flute'' by the Vienna
State Opera, an evening at a typical Viennese ``Heurigen'' wine
restaurant, and a conference dinner in the City Hall.
If you want to present a paper or to exhibit a product, please tell us
before December 14, 1990, to the address below.
All DANTE members will be invited individually at the end of this year.
All non-members who would also like to attend the meeting or to receive
more information about it, should tell us until the end of December.
The organisers' postal and elctronic addresses are:
Dr. Hubert Partl and Dipl.-Ing. Irene Hyna
EDV-Zentrum der
Technischen Universitaet
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8--10
A-1040 Wien, Austria
e-mail: z3000pa@awituw01.bitnet
Alternatively, you may also contact the appropriate TUG vice president,
Joachim Lammarsch, in Heidelberg.
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 11:19:23 +0000
From: P.ABBOTT@UK.AC.ASTON
Subject: The TeX Book (soft cover)
I thought you might like to know that
The TeXbook ISBN 0-201-13448-9 is now available in its EIGHTEENTH
printing.
The price for members of the UK TeX Users group is \pounds 21.55.
Peter
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 22:10:34 +0000
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: Latex style files for Minutes and Agendas:
available now from The Archive
Forwarded message from:
Pete Digby; Statistics Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
DIGBY @ UK.AC.AFRC.RESA
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I have been using LaTeX for some time, and find that it is wonderful:
my only complaint is "why didn't I start using it before".
I am Secretary of a local Computer Users Group and have been using
LaTeX to produce the Minutes and Agenda for meetings: this has been
done successfully for a few meetings, and a colleague suggested that I
should offer the various files involved to the TEX-ARCHIVE. No doubt
an Archivist will append a note to this message to say that (s)he has
rejected the contribution, or to indicate where the files can be
found.
[As if we would reject anything---lose things, corrupt files, sure, but
never reject! --The Archivists]
[And, regrettably, we have no female archivists.]
Briefly, the system provides the following features:
draft or final versions of the Minutes;
different fonts for items of hardware and software;
provisional or final Agenda (or no Agenda) for the next meeting;
querying for information from `experts';
marking items for future progress reports, which are listed in the
Agenda for the next meeting;
semi-automatic communication between one set of Minutes and the next
regarding Matters arising from the Minutes;
commands for common items, e.g. Apologies for Absence.
I will be pleased to get any comments on the system that I use: no doubt
some of you wizards out there can implement the features provided (and
some others that would be useful, but that I haven't thought of) in a
more efficient way --- so be it.
Pete Digby; Statistics Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station.
DIGBY @ UK.AC.AFRC.RESA
P.S. I have recently switched over to using EMTEX on my PC: in common
with several correspondents, I can recommend it entirely.
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NOTE: These files can now be found in
[tex-archive.latex.contrib.minutes]
With thanks to Pete, especially for providing with his contribution a
00README.TXT
file (yes, this is a hint to other contributors: it is the only way we
are going to achieve a well-documented archive).
Chris Rowley (on behalf of The Archivists)
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