UKTeX Digest Friday, 3 May 1991
Volume 91 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Query on LaTeX and Tools
Graphics in TEX
emtex
Re: emtex
Aring and {dvips,dvi3ps}
RE: Aring and {dvips,dvi3ps}
Re: EMTeX DVIHPLJ bug (UKTeX Digest V91 #17)
Re: EMTeX DVIHPLJ bug
Help with EDMAC
Paragraph spacing in suthesis.sty
RE: Paragraph spacing in suthesis.sty
Strikethrough
RE: Strikethrough
amstex.sty
Re: amstex.sty
PSPRINT to run on an HP LaserJet IIID (with all the nice bits).
LaTeX for Atari ST?
RE: LateX for Atari ST?
RE: FTNRIGHT.STY
RE: Use of %special
RE: problem unzipping mf1 in emtex subdirectory
RE: problem unzipping mf1 in emtex subdirectory
Use of \footnotemark
{Announcements}:
Meeting Announcement: Desktop Publishing in Astronomy & Space Sciences
{Archive News}:
New version of BibTeX changes for VMS released
TeXserver statistics
Administrivia:
Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
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Date: Sat, 09 Mar 91 08:42:44 -0500
From: PTM%UUCP.XACT@UK.AC.UKC
Subject: Query on LaTeX and Tools
The version of xfig I have is FIG 1.4.3. It is not very good at drawing
in LaTeX mode. Also I do not have the fig2latex filter.
Is there a better version of xfig (with respect to LaTeX mode)?
Is there a better tool anywhere?
Can someone let me have the source for a fig2latex filter?
Paul Mahoney
X-Act Solutions Ltd
Tel: (+44) 4243 6386
uknet: ptm@xact.uucp
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 10:14:29 +0000
From: APY014@UK.AC.COVENTRY.CCK
Subject: Graphics in TEX
Your address has been given to me by a coleague in order that I may
obtain advice on using Latex. My query is how may I include Harvard Graphics
files within Tex.
As far as I am aware HG can export Professional Write, Encapsulated
Postcript and HPGL. If you can help me in this matter I would be most grateful,
Yours Faithfully
J. Snelling,
C/O Dept. Physics, Coventry Polytechnic
apy014@uk.ac.coventry.cck
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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 18:42:16 +0000
From: EANV13@UK.AC.EDINBURGH.CASTLE
Subject: emtex
Dear Dr. Abbott,
a few weeks ago I received emtex from you. It is all set up.
Unfortunately, I have only got an EPSON FX-100 printer (I might get
hold of a NEC P6 printer). The problem is now, where can I get hold of
the font library files for these two printers, since I cannot find them
on aston.tex.
I wonder, whether you can help me or even have a copy of them.
I am looking forward to hearing from you,
Petra zur Lage.
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 11:14:57 +0000
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.mips>
Subject: Re: emtex
> a few weeks ago I received emtex from you. It is all set up.
> Unfortunately, I have only got an EPSON FX-100 printer (I might get
> hold of a NEC P6 printer). The problem is now, where can I get hold of
> the font library files for these two printers, since I cannot find them
> on aston.tex.
In UKTeX V91 #17, Chris Martin <CS1CWM@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.IBM> wrote:
> I have got copies of the FX and NEC P6 font libraries which Eberhard Mattes
> sent me. The FX fonts take 4 1.44Mb disks as do the P6M's. The P6H fonts take
> 6 1.44Mb disks -- I haven't the P6L disks to hand but I think they take 3.
- --dave
David Osborne (pp Aston TeX Archive group)
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 19:27:07 +0000
From: N_BROWN@UK.AC.MRC.NATIONAL-INSTITUTE-FOR-MEDICAL-RESEARCH
Subject: Aring and {dvips,dvi3ps}
TeX 2.93
LaTeX 2.09
dvi2ps 3.1 aka dvi3ps
dvips 5.47
fonts cmr (haven't tried any others)
t-rom(dvi3ps),ptmr(dvips) = Times-Roman
Using both the above postscript filters I find that when I print an
uppercase Scandinavian aring character using the PostScript font, the
little circle "falls off" the A. The lowercase aring character comes out
ok though.
Looking at my lplain.tex I see the arings are defined differently - why?
\def\aa{\accent23a}
\def\AA{\leavevmode\setbox0\hbox{h}\dimen@\ht0\advance\dimen@-1ex%
\rlap{\raise.67\dimen@\hbox{\char'27}}A}
Anyway, redefining Aring as \def\AA{\accent23A} fixes things for the
PostScript runs and doesn't make much difference with cmr (an almost
imperceptible gap between the ring and the point of the A).
Apologies for my TeX ignorance, and is there a better fix?
Thanks,
SNAIL: Nigel P. Brown, Laboratory of Mathematical Biology,
N.I.M.R., The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, LONDON NW7 1AA, U.K.
Tel: (+44) 081-959 3666 ext 2295
JANET: n_brown@uk.ac.mrc.nimr
INTERNET: n_brown%nimr.mrc.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
EARN/BITNET: n_brown%nimr.mrc.ac.uk@{cunyvm.cuny.edu|ukacrl}
USENET: ...{uunet|mcsun}!ukc!nimr!n_brown
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Date: Fri, 03 May 91 12:30:41 +0000
From: P.TAYLOR@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAX
Subject: RE: Aring and {dvips,dvi3ps}
>>> Anyway, redefining Aring as \def\AA{\accent23A} fixes things for the
>>> PostScript runs and doesn't make much difference with cmr (an almost
>>> imperceptible gap between the ring and the point of the A).
I agree with your fix; it's the one I use and recommend. ** Phil.
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 17:07:05 +0100
From: MATTES%DE.UNI-STUTTGART.INFORMATIK.AZU@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY
Subject: Re: EMTeX DVIHPLJ bug (UKTeX Digest V91 #17)
Mike Piff wrote:
> The /la option in DVIHPLJ in the EMTeX distribution appears
> not to be working.
I'll investigate it.
> Is there any reason why the /l option should not be used instead?
> /l and /la appear to do the same thing.
In portrait mode, both options (should) set the left margin. But
in landscape mode, /l# sets the transformed `left' margin, ie,
it sets the top margin (if we look at the paper in portrait mode).
/la# sets the left margin independent of the transformation used
and should be used to make the margin set with /l# match the actual
margin found on the output after printing (or vica versa), which
is device-dependent (and with some devices depends on how you
feed the paper into the printer).
Eberhard Mattes
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 19:23:33 -0500
From: A8131DAL%EARN.AWIUNI11@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
Subject: Re: EMTeX DVIHPLJ bug
Probably many people will answer this - but who knows?
It is true that /l and /la do the same - but the purpose is to
seperate the margin produced by the printer from the margin intended
to appear on the paper:
If you set /la (and /ta) correctly, then you can give /l and /t
the exact values you want to have on the paper, and you need not
calculate or experiment what values achieve the desired effect.
There is the file adjust.dvi to help set these values: it should
produce a black square just 1in off the left and off the top.
Hope this helps!
Peter
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Date: Wed, 01 May 91 12:52:00 +0000
From: CBTS8001%IE.UCC.IRUCCVAX@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
Subject: Help with EDMAC
% Can someone help me with this one? A user needs EDMAC to handle
% multi-level footnotes, penta-numbered critical texts etc etc, and
% is very happy with what it provides. However, there is one
% unresolved problem: TeX the following and then read on.
%
% He wants the outermost footnote level to reflect the paragraph
% number, as in (6.); within that, he needs phrasal notes (marked
% between superscript I's) as well as sequential word notes, some
% of which may occur within a phrasal note and some outside it.
%
% Can someone show me how to make EDMAC do this?
%
% ///Peter
%
% ---------------------------------8<------------------------------
\hsize=4in \vsize=6in
\centerline{\dots}
\vskip2cm
\centerline{some 5-line-numbered poetry}
\vskip2cm
\centerline{\dots}
\bigskip
6. Is and-sin as-bert $\rm~I$fria$~2$ Dond mB\'o$\rm~I$ in
aidhchi-sin$~3$ r\'e tobairt$~4$ in chatha: `d\'entar lat ar n-airfided
innocht$~5$ a Duind
\bigskip
\centerline{\dots}
\vskip2cm
\centerline{some more 5-line-numbered poetry}
\vskip2cm
\centerline{\dots}
\bigskip
etc etc
\vfill\hrule width1in\medskip
6. $\rm~{I-I}$ fri Donn mB\'o ({\it m\/} subscript.)%{\it
D\/}. \qquad $~2$ a {\it subscript\/}.%{\it Y\/}. \qquad $~3$ sin
omitt.%{\it D\/}. \qquad $~4$ tabairt%{\it D\/}. \qquad $~5$
anocht%{\it D\/}.
\eject\end
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Date: Wed, 01 May 91 15:25:49
From: BENSON_AR@UK.AC.LANCASHIRE-POLY.PRIME1
Subject: Paragraph spacing in suthesis.sty
Can anyone help ?
I wish to alter the suthesis.sty file to leave an extra blank line
after each paragraph to comply with regulations. Can anyone suggest
an easy way to do this ?
Thanks,
dv
Alan Benson
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Date: Wed, 01 May 91 23:44:34 +0000
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: RE: Paragraph spacing in suthesis.sty
>
> I wish to alter the suthesis.sty file to leave an extra blank line
> after each paragraph to comply with regulations. Can anyone suggest
> an easy way to do this ?
\setlength{\parskip}{2000pt (or what you will)}
is what "the manual" would suggest, but this may have other
undesirable consequences: still worth a try, I guess!
Chris Rowley (on behalf of The Archivists)
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Date: Wed, 01 May 91 16:58:44 +0000
From: MJH@UK.CO.KERNEL-TECHNOLOGY
Subject: Strikethrough
Is there a simple method to implement (ugly, but required by our quality
system) strike-through in a LaTeX document? Since struck-through
section could be extensive, hbox type solutions won't work. I guess I
could implement something in PostScript - but not all of out output is
printed that way, so this would be only a partial solution. Likewise, a set
of strikethrough fonts could be created, but this really is overkill, and
disc-expensive for an infrequently required facility.
Mark J. Hewitt
bangpath: ...!ukc!kernel!mjh JANET: mjh@uk.co.kernel
voice: (+44) 532 444566 other: mjh@kernel.co.uk
fax: (+44) 532 425456 old style: mjh%uk.co.kernel@uk.ac.ukc
paper: Kernel Technology Ltd, Development Centre, 46 The Calls, Leeds,
LS2 7EY, West Yorkshire, UK
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 08:04:00 +0000
From: MALCOLMC@UK.AC.PCL.MOLE
Subject: RE: Strikethrough
at a guess, and phil will no doubt have something more elaborate,
make every space active in a strike through section and let the
space control sequence strike through the next word. you'll
loose hyphenation, but that simply serves you right if you
aren't prepared to do it properly and create a font (the only
`good' solution).
malcolm
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Date: Wed, 01 May 91 17:02:53 -0100
From: RALPH@UK.AC.CARDIFF.COMPUTING-MATHS
Subject: amstex.sty
I've been told there is a file called amstex.sty which menas the features
of Amstex can be incorporated into Latex.
Can you give me any futher info about it? Is it available from aston?
Thanks. Ralph
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 11:18:47 +0000
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.mips>
Subject: Re: amstex.sty
> I've been told there is a file called amstex.sty which menas the features
> of Amstex can be incorporated into Latex.
> Can you give me any futher info about it? Is it available from aston?
Yes, investigate the files in uk.ac.tex:[tex-archive.amstex2.amslatex]
amstex.sty is in the directory [tex-archive.amstex2.amslatex.inputs]
There's a READ.ME file in the same directory.
- --dave
David Osborne (pp Aston TeX Archive group)
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Date: Wed, 01 May 91 17:12:00 +0000
From: SYSTEM@UK.AC.OXFORD.ATMOSPHERIC-PHYSICS.ISAMS
Subject: PSPRINT to run on an HP LaserJet IIID (with all the nice bits).
Hello Peter,
having just got a couple of HP LaserJet IIID printers with
HP Postscript cartridges, I am trying to find anyone that has modified
their copy of PSPRINT to use the Duplex and Twin Cartridge features in
the IIID. Can anyone out there is TeX land help ?
regards, Andy Pickering.
Oxford University.
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 10:47:14 +0000
From: P.ABBOTT@UK.AC.ASTON
Subject: LaTeX for Atari ST?
Paper enquiry: I will print and forward responses.
Peter
I am a student in mathematics and I would
like to use LaTeX on my Atari 1040 STf with
a hard disk for a dissertation which I am
going to write soon. I also need a driver for
my printer Star LC10, i.e. for a 9-needle-
printer. I have not seen any advertisement of
a public-domain library yet where a TeX-
(or LaTeX-) version for the ST was offered,
although I know that there is one. Could
you please give me some information about where
I can obtain it? Thank you very much indeed.
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 11:15:00 +0000
From: MALCOLMC@UK.AC.PCL.MOLE
Subject: RE: LateX for Atari ST?
south west software supply pd atari and shareware
versions. see the last TeXline. (no 12).
South West software:
Martyn Dryden
SW Software Library
PO Box 562
Wimborne
Dorset BH21 2YD
malcolm
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 20:16:13 +0000
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: RE: FTNRIGHT.STY
John
>
> Is Frank Mittelbach's ftnright.sty {Tugboat 11:657--662 (1990)}
> somewhere on the list or otherwise available?
> It isn't in [.latex.styles.multicol]
> John Simmie\\Chemistry Dept.\\University College\\Galway\\Ireland
Apologies for the delay.
Now available from The Best TeX Archive in the Universe! More
mundanely known as uk.ac.tex.
In [tex-archive.latex.styles.ftnright]
Chris Rowley (on behalf of The Archivists)
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 21:28:19 +0000
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: RE: Use of %special
In a message to UKTeX of Sat, 20 Apr 91 11:10:31 EDT, Teresa A. Ehling
"Teresa A. Ehling" <EHLING%EARN.MITVMA@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY>, wrote:
> An open query to TeX users:
>
> How do you insert figures in your book or paper prepared in TeX?
>
> What syntax for the argument of %special does the macro package
> that you use for figure insertion follow?
>
> We would like to learn just how varied the usage of %special for
> figure insertion really is. We hope a survey of this kind
> might prove helpful for those involved in the development of
> a standard for %special.
>
> In your reply, as a minimum, please provide us with the following:
> (a) a detailed example of the argument to %special for insertion
> of a scaled figure;
> (b) the name of the TeX macro package that generates this for you;
> (c) the name of the DVI processor that understands this form of
> %special usage.
When this message first arrived, and when I saw some of the replies from
my fellow archivists, I interpreted it as referring to PostScript
printers. However, I now see that you're asking about any sort of
figure, so here goes:
I use a DEC LN03 as output device (using my own DVItoLN03 driver,
available from various sites in Europe and the USA, and which is also on
the DECUS TeX Collection tape). It's _not_ a PostScript model, so the
only facility for figures (apart from those one can draw with LaTeX's
picture environment, or similar TeXing) is DEC Sixels format (or
Tektronix emulation on the LN03+).
So I produce my pictures in sixel format, either directly with screen
capture programs, or by using something like ReToS on the output of an
application (such as Matlab) that can produce ReGIS output --- I've also
written a program that can convert scanned photographs in TIFF Level 5
format into sixels.
The sixel file is then included in the document with
\special{ln03:plotfile filename}
I also have macros which can include such a special in a suitably sized
box, such that TeX will leave enough room for the object printed from
the sixel file.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 22:34:59 +0000
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
Subject: RE: problem unzipping mf1 in emtex subdirectory
> Dear Archive-manager, Thanks for circulating your fellow archivists
> with my message about mf1.boo in emtex. The version of pkunzip I have
> is 1.1, dated May 15, 1990. It works with (the DEBOO'd versions of)
> mf2.zip and mf3.zip in the same directory, which is why I suspect your
> mf1 file.
> Yours, Charles Goldie
Well, Charles, this one took up the challenge, got mf1.boo out of the
archive, ran every check in the book on it, including comparing its
offspring with the .ZIP file I already had, dezipping it, etc etc. ...
and it seems fine to me.
Not much help to you, though!
So you could either send off to aston for the whole new set: with
assurance that it will be a complete working version. Or I could send
you an emergency copy of mf1.zip: on the PC medium of your choice.
chris
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Date: Fri, 03 May 91 14:06:25 +0000
From: P.TAYLOR@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAX
Subject: RE: problem unzipping mf1 in emtex subdirectory
>>> Dear Archive-manager, Thanks for circulating your fellow archivists
>>> with my message about mf1.boo in emtex. The version of pkunzip I have
>>> is 1.1, dated May 15, 1990. It works with (the DEBOO'd versions of)
>>> mf2.zip and mf3.zip in the same directory, which is why I suspect your
>>> mf1 file.
I would assume that it was a transient NIFTP error (Rainbow used to be very
prone to these), and just fetch the file again. If it \stress {still} won't
PKUNZIP in exactly the same way/place, further investigation will be called
for. ** Phil.
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Date: Fri, 3 May 91 14:29 GMT
From: CBTS8001%IE.UCC.IRUCCVAX@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
Subject: Use of \footnotemark
I am trying to get a footnote reference in a \section title, eg
\section{my header\footnotemark}\footnotetext{myref pp33--44}
but it keeps telling me use of \@xfootnotemark doesn't match its definition.
The LaTeXbook explicitly says you can't use plain \footnote in an argument,
so just how on earth are you supposed to make \footnotemark work?
(*silent scream*)
///Peter
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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 09:14:00 +0700
From: U01105%EARN.FRCCSC21@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY
Subject: Meeting Announcement: Desktop Publishing in Astronomy & Space Sciences
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
in ASTRONOMY and SPACE SCIENCES
(Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory)
(1 - 3 October 1991)
===================================
Strasbourg Observatory / Astronomical Data Centre will be organizing
from Oct. 1 to 3, 1991, a meeting on 'Desktop Publishing in Astronomy
and Space Sciences'.
Desktop publishing is widespread nowadays and a number of packages are
used by astronomers, space scientists, engineers and technicians for
producing their papers, reports, etc., as well as their everyday mail
(typically Word, TeX, LaTeX, ...). The motivations behind the choice of
a given package are various and not always rational ones (such as
availability, financial constraints, mouth-to-ear recommendations).
There is anyway an experience to be shared openly for the benefit of
everybody and it would certainly be useful to confront performances,
capabilities, as well as possible complementarities of the text
processing S/W packages that are presently most frequently used in
astronomy and space sciences. There is most likely no 'best' system,
but it might be possible to get a digest of the best parts of the major
ones without having to review lengthily computer journals.
Not only the point of view of the authors or writers should matter here,
but also the reasons behind the choices that a few publishers have
already made (typically Springer TeX Macros, ...). On this side, the
advantages are obvious: the manuscripts are delivered directly by the
authors/scientific editors in a standardized machine-readable way
(saving time and money) and the final appearance of the publications is
substantially enhanced, be it only through its harmonization.
What happens in other communities of related fields will also be
investigated. Some publishers represent up to 500 scientific journals.
It will be interesting to listen to their explanations as to how their
choices have been made and for them to hear what scientists have to say
in that respect.
Another aspect of this colloquium is related to the developments carried
out by auxiliary software companies or individuals. They are producing
self-sustained packages, complementary tools and/or utilities to be
plugged into already well-established text processing systems. Here
again scientists should express their views, needs and wishes.
The meeting is timely as desktop publishing reaches such a development
that it would be appropriate for the corporation and for publishers to
issue now recommendations for standardization, compatibility and/or
complementarity from the S/W producers.
Sessions will be organized in such a way that each of the parties will
be able to make their points as to the advantages they find with given
packages, the constraints they have to comply with, the requirements
they would have for further developments. We shall also attempt to set
up exhibitions and/or demonstrations.
If you are interested in attending this colloquium, please return the
registration form below in order to be put on the mailing list to
receive additional information (list of hotels, preliminary programme,
and so on). As the audience might have to be limited, we advise you to
do it as soon as possible.
We would also appreciate if you could advertise as much as possible this
meeting in your institution and through your electronic mailing list.
Please feel also free to send us your comments and to recommend people
(scientists, editors, publishers, software producers, company managers,
and so on) you think we should contact, if not yet done.
Yours sincerely,
Andre HECK.
March 1991.
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in ASTRONOMY and SPACE SCIENCES
(1 - 3 October 1991)
===================================
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Name:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Address: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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End of message - Desktop Publishing meeting
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Date: Thu, 02 May 91 21:49:19 +0000
From: TEX@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.RMCS
Subject: New version of BibTeX changes for VMS released
In a message of Sun, 28 Apr 91 22:54:00 PDT,
Don Hosek <DHOSEK@EDU.CLAREMONT.HMCVAX> wrote:
> A minor bug in the BibTeX VMS change file has been found and
> fixed--in the old version, BibTeX would not search the directory
> specified by /BIBINPUTS when run. The fix is installed in the
> BibTeX files on ymir (the change file is
> [anonymous.tex.sources.bibtex0_99]bibtex.vms-changes) and is PD
> VMS 1.6b.
This file is now installed in the Aston Archive:
[tex-archive.bibtex]bibtex.vms-changes
It can be fetched by e-mail by sending this request to
<TeXserver@uk.ac.tex>:
FILES
[tex-archive.bibtex]bibtex.vms-changes
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Date: Fri, 03 May 91 12:39:56 +0000
From: TEX@uk.ac.cran.rmcs
Subject: TeXserver statistics
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