UKTeX Digest Friday, 14 Jun 1991
Volume 91 : Issue 24
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Tib and \input
Optional arguments to environments
Upright CM Greek glyphs: any offers?
Graphics and LaTeX
MSDOS executable for ghostscript held at Aston
Times Roman, etc, fonts
`Helvetica.afm' anyone?
Re: `Helvetica.afm' anyone?
Cannot make tfm and pk files.
Re: midnight macros
DVI-to-HPGL and TEXINFO
Re: DVI-to-HPGL and TEXINFO
{Announcements}:
TUGboat 12 #2, table of contents
Information on July TUG conference, etc in Boston (as in tea-party)
the babel system
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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 91 15:59:52 +0000
From: Robert Davidge <ROBERTD@UK.AC.SUSSEX.COGS>
Subject: Tib and \input
When Tib generates an output file from a latex document using \input
it does not include these files. Has anyone got a solution to this problem
other than 1. Not using \input or 2. Editing together reference lists?
Robert Davidge
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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 91 23:55:11 -0500
From: Jerry Leichter <LEICHTER%COM.LRW@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY>
Subject: Optional arguments to environments
In UKTeX V91 #23, Peter Knaggs asks how to create environments with optional
arguments. He wants to do stuff like:
\begin{myenv}[optional]
...
\end{myenv}
It's not clear if he wants to do this in LaTeX or within some other macro
package. It's impossible to answer without knowing, since the determining
factor is how \begin is implemented. So, I'll assume he wants information
about LaTeX.
The standard LaTeX \newenvironment command cannot be used to create a command
with arguments, optional or otherwise. More generally, the LaTeX user-level
interface does not provide any way to create commands with optional arguments.
It's simple to do using lower-level calls, but you have to know how LaTeX's
innards work.
\begin{myenv} in LaTeX does some setup, then ultimately executes \myenv. It
is careful to execute \myenv at the very end of the definition of \begin, so
that \myenv can "peek ahead" if it desires. In particular, this means that
the standard techniques used for optional arguments in LaTeX will work just
fine. They are too complex for me to explain here; but here's some example
code:
\makeatletter
\def\myenv{\@ifnextchar [{@myenv}{@myenv[DEFAULT]}}
\def@myenv[#1]{Arg = #1 --- }
\def\endmyenv{\relax}
\makeatother
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{myenv}
no optional argument
\end{myenv}
\begin{myenv}[argument]
with optional argument of ``argument''
\end{myenv}
\end{document}
-- Jerry
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 17:32:07 +0000
From: <CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX>
Subject: Upright CM Greek glyphs: any offers?
Has anyone already coaxed Metafont into producing aesthetically
acceptable upright mathematical Greek (lower-case) characters?
If not, is anyone interested in doing so?
Chris Rowley
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 17:48:18 +0000
From: Mark J Hewitt <MJH@UK.CO.KERNEL-TECHNOLOGY>
Subject: Graphics and LaTeX
Well, I know this has been addressed before, but I'd be interested in
knowing what LaTeX users now use for the incorporation of diagrams into
documents.
The background is that we are mandating LaTeX for use in the production of
design documents, user documents and all other out-bound written materials
to our customers. Clearly, there is a need to provide a straightforward
mechanism with which to create and integrate diagrams.
At present, bitmaps cut from screens etc. are inserted as PostScript
\specials, whereas diagrams (DFD's etc.) are either laboriously generated
with LaTeX picture mode or by hand-crafted PostScript. We use dvi2ps - an
old one! When I have time to convert company logo PostScript inserts,
title pages, printer bin control, DRAFT overlays, Changebars and form
drawing appropriately, we will probably go to dvips.
Hardware - well, we don't really have X, but we have a few Macs (but we are
trying to get away from those!), and more DOS machines. We run TeX on UNIX
platforms, so our VMS and DOS users have to learn how to use it there.
So - any modern advice?
Mark J. Hewitt
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Date: 11 Jun 91 14:06:58 +0000
From: Andrew Haylett (GEC-Marconi Research Centre)
<AJH@UK.CO.GEC-MRC>
Subject: MSDOS executable for ghostscript held at Aston
I recently fetched the ghostscript 2.2 distribution (gs22-zip.boo) from
the Aston archives. In the file 00readme.doc, I found the statement:
> The default MS-DOS configuration now includes VGA (default), EGA, Epson,
> DeskJet, and LaserJet drivers.
However, I find that the gs22.exe supplied with the distribution actually has
drivers for VGA, EGA, BGI and Epson. No Deskjet. This is mildly vexing as I
have a Deskjet, but no C compiler, so can't rebuild it to include the Deskjet
driver. So - anyone know where I can find an MSDOS binary with VGA *and*
Deskjet drivers? Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 14:54:47 +0000
From: <JEREMY.GIBBONS@UK.AC.OXFORD.PRG>
Subject: Times Roman, etc, fonts
Personal TeX market a program called COtoPX which converts Bitstream outline
fonts to pks and tfms. Bitstream, in turn, market lots of outline fonts: we
have Times, Baskerville, Goudy Old Style and Palatino, but they have a
range of 40-something in this (`Fontware', hinted) format.
Jeremy
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| Jeremy Gibbons (jg@prg.oxford.ac.uk) Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp |
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 08:16:51 +0000
From: Sam Nelson <SAM@UK.AC.STIRLING.COMPSCI>
Subject: `Helvetica.afm' anyone?
Pressure has been building here to replace my site's old dvi-->PostScript
driver with a better one, so having re-established contact with `uk.ac.tex'
as a fileserver, I pulled v5.47 of Rokicki and successfully built it. I
noticed in the archive lists a directory called `PSLATEX' and, pulling the
contents of that, discovered that I can relatively trivially (it could be done
before here, but with difficulty!) set documents in almost any built-in LW
font I like at the flick of a \documentstyle. I say `almost' because the
procedure seems to involve converting `.afm' to `.tfm' and `.vpl' via `afm2tfm'
- ---no problem---and then creating `.vf' with `vptovf'---again no problem, but
in the lists of `.afm' files available from `uk.ac.tex', `Helvetica.afm' is
conspicuous by its absence. `Bold', `Oblique' and `Bold-Oblique' are there,
but `Vanilla' is missing, as far as `grep' can tell me. I tried getting the
relevant stuff from a local LW with the `getafm.ps' and `printafm.ps' files
I also found on the archive, but there appear to be sizeable chunks missing
(accented characters and kern pairs, as far as I can tell, but I know little
about what's supposed to be there!)---can anyone tell me what I'm doing
wrong?
The new driver seems to run fine. I'm still a little bothered about what
appears to be the use of non-CM metrics being used with CM italics in math
mode, but that's another story...
Sam.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 16:28:28 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <S.P.Q.RAHTZ@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS>
Subject: Re: `Helvetica.afm' anyone?
Sam Nelson <SAM@UK.AC.STIRLING.COMPSCI> writes:
> in the lists of `.afm' files available from `uk.ac.tex', `Helvetica.afm' is
> conspicuous by its absence. `Bold', `Oblique' and `Bold-Oblique'
strange.
its being transferred from my site to Aston as I write
Sebastian
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 15:20:32 +0000
From: Martin Tomes <MT00@UK.CO.EUROTHERM>
Subject: Cannot make tfm and pk files.
I have just received the TeX 3 tape from the Aston Archivists. I am
using Interactive UNIX 2.2 and gcc to compile.
All compiles OK. When I run METAFONT from dvips this is what happens:
(etherm)$ MakeTeXPK cminch 300 300 magstep\(1.0\) LWONE
mf \mode:=LWONE; mag:=magstep(1.0); scrollmode; input cminch \</dev/null
This is METAFONT, C Version 2.0 (INIMF)
(/roc/local/lib/mf3/inputs/cminch.mf (/roc/local/lib/mf3/inputs/cmbase.mf
! Missing `=' has been inserted.
<to be read again>
,
l.22 vardef serif(suffix $,
$$,@) % serif at |z$| for stroke from |z$$|
! Missing `=' has been inserted.
<to be read again>
(
l.47 def dish_serif(
suffix $,$$,@)(expr left_darkness,left_jut)
! Missing `=' has been inserted.
<to be read again>
(
l.58 def nodish_serif(
suffix $,$$,@)(expr left_darkness,left_jut)
! Missing `=' has been inserted.
<to be read again>
.
.
.
.
I note that the cmbase.mf file has not changed so why do I get this
error? I have followed the instructions in the README files. I had
no problems at all when I installed TeX 2.99.
Martin Tomes
Janet: mtomes@uk.co.eurotherm | Eurotherm Limited, Faraday Close,
Internet: mtomes@eurotherm.co.uk | Durrington, Worthing, W.Sussex, England.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 91 17:05:56 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <S.P.Q.RAHTZ@UK.AC.SOUTHAMPTON.ECS>
Subject: Re: midnight macros
Stephen Miller <STEPHEN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX> writes:
> I've just tried to transfer these and found that there is only a single
> file there : labels.doc and not the ten I expected. Or have I made a mistake
?
fixed. sorry!
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Date: 13 Jun 91 12:50:00 +0000
From: <D.MATHER@UK.AC.EDINBURGH>
Subject: DVI-to-HPGL and TEXINFO
I have two questions;
1) A friend is looking for the source code suitable to build
a DVI-to-HPGL driver. Does such a beast exist and is it
available from the archive ?
2) I have a `texinfo' file -- can I process it with LaTeX, and
if so, how ?
Thanks,
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 13:04:36 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <ALIEN@UK.AC.ESSEX>
Subject: Re: DVI-to-HPGL and TEXINFO
> 2) I have a `texinfo' file -- can I process it with LaTeX, and
> if so, how ?
TeXinfo is a documentation mark-up scheme used by the GNU project (the
people who developed Emacs, gcc, g++, etc). A TeXinfo file may be
processed into an `info' file, which can be read as on-line
documentation via emacs, or into printed documentation via TeX.
What you need to be able to perform the latter is the file
`texinfo.tex', which defines the required mark-up macros. TeXinfo is
derived from plain TeX, so you wouldn't process it with LaTeX.
You can get texinfo.tex from the archive; I can mail a copy to you if
you have trouble finding it. (As an aside, it's a good example of how
to support a totally un-TeX-like mark-up scheme; it doesn't even use
backslash as its "command character"!)
On behalf of the archivists...
Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex
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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 91 21:27:51 +0000
From: LIST_SERVER@uk.ac.tex
Subject: TUGboat 12 #2, table of contents
This issue of TUGboat went to the printer on June 7.
Contents, TUGboat 12, No. 2, June 1991
General Delivery
Nelson H. F. Beebe President's introduction 205
Barbara Beeton Editorial comments 208
Walter Obermiller TeX in Germany 211
Philology
Basil Malyshev, Alexander Samarin and Dimitri Vulis
Russian TeX 212
Cvetana Krstev Serbo-Croatian hyphenation:
a TeX point of view 215
Yannis Haralambous On TeX and Greek ... 224
Francois Jalbert JemTeX 2.00 available for Japanese 227
Fonts
Alan Jeffrey Labelled diagrams in METAFONT 227
Graphics
Reinhard Foessmeier X bitmaps in TeX 229
Output Devices
Joachim Schrod Report on the DVI Driver Standard 232
Resources
Karl Berry and Kathy Hargreaves
Review of 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated 233
Nico Poppelier Review of LaTeX for engineers and
scientists 235
Questions
Alan Hoenig Just plain Q & A 237
Tutorials
David Salomon The \if, \ifx and \ifcat comparisons 238
Lincoln Durst Some tools for making indexes: Part I 248
Victor Eijkhout The structure of the TeX processor 253
Warnings
Barbara Beeton Initiation rites 257
Frank Mittelbach Solution to the riddle from
TUGboat 11, no. 4 259
Macros
Victor Eijkhout The bag of tricks 260
Don De Smet TeX macros for producing multiple-choice
tests 261
Jim Hefferon Getting \answers in TeX 270
Victor Eijkhout Oral TeX 272
Sonja Maus An expansion power lemma 277
George Russell Generating \n asterisks 278
Dimitri Vulis TeX and envelopes 279
LaTeX
Jackie Damrau The LaTeX column 284
Nico Poppelier A comment on The LaTeX column 285
Glenn L. Swonk LaTeX tree drawer 286
Harold Thimbleby ``See also'' indexing with Makeindex 290
Johannes Braams Babel, a multilingual style-option system
for use with LaTeX's standard document
styles 291
Queries
Jeff Lankford Public domain SGML tools wanted 302
Jiri Vesely Reporting TeX's hyphenations 302
Letters
Paul Abrahams Response to Victor Eijkhout 302
Victor Eijkhout Response to Paul Abrahams 303
Al Cuoco TeX in schools: Why not? 303
Abstracts
Cahiers GUTenberg #7 and #8 305
News & Announcements
Calendar 307
TeX91/Congres GUTenberg'91, Paris, 23--26 September 1991 309
Desktop Publishing in astronomy and space sciences,
Strasbourg, 1--3 October 1991 311
Call for papers: EP92: International conference on electronic
publishing, document manipulation, and typography,
Lausanne, Switzerland, 7--10 April 1992 311
Late-Breaking News
Donald Knuth Fixed-point glue setting: Errata 313
Barbara Beeton Production notes 313
Coming next issue 315
TUG Business
TUG financial statements 315
Institutional members 319
TUG Bylaws 321
Forms
TUG membership application 331
Advertisements
Index of advertisers 348
Supplements
Computers & Typesetting: Errata and Changes, Supplement
TUG Resource Directory
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 17:25:33 +0000
From: <CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX>
Subject: Information on July TUG conference, etc in Boston (as in tea-party)
I now have a few copies of both
The Prospectus and The Program Update
for this prestigious event.
If anyone in the UK needs a copy urgently, then e-mail me or telephone
(071 794 0575).
Chris Rowley
(Hon Sec ukTeXug)
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 13:33:00 +0700
From: Johannes L. Braams"Johannes L. Braams"
<JL_BRAAMS%NL.PTTRNL@UK.AC.EARN-RELAY>
Subject: the babel system
Hi,
I have been getting input from CERN for quite a number of languages
to add to the babel system. The language specific files will be
made available from LISTSERV@HEARN in the near future.
I would like to welcome the various national language groups to
comment on the files, improve on the files etc.
Available now:
language provided by
--------- -----------
Dutch (NTG WG13)
Germanb (derived from german.tex, Hubert Partl cs.)
Francais (from german.tex and french.sty v2.2)
English (defaults from styles)
Spanish (Julio Sanchez, (jsanchez@gmv.es))
Italian (Maurizio Codogno, (urcm@ur785.cselt.stet.it))
Available soon:
Slovene (CERN)
Czech (CERN)
Russian (Werenfried Spit, (W.Spit@fys.ruu.nl))
Norsk (CERN)
Portuges (CERN)
Finnish (CERN)
Magyar (CERN)
Regards,
Johannes Braams
PTT Research Neher Laboratorium, P.O. box 421,
2260 AK Leidschendam, The Netherlands.
Phone : +31 70 3325051 E-mail : JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl
Fax : +31 70 3326477
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