UKTeX Digest Friday, 9 Aug 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
MusicTeX - a few questions
Chapter "references"
RE: Chapter ""references""
dvi2hpgl
NFSS
{Announcements}:
New version of supertabular.sty from LISTSERV@HEARN
Serious flaw in TUGboat supplement
software patents in the United Kingdom
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New files: TbeMacros.TeX & TbeSamples.TeX
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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 16:08:16 +0000
From: Julian Smart <jmcn@uk.ac.edinburgh.castle>
Subject: MusicTeX - a few questions
I'm trying to use MusicTeX to typeset a friend's composition,
and would be grateful if anyone could help with the following -
1) I can't see how to get a repeat sign - in the source there's a
'reprise' command but invoking it gives a TeX error.
2) Setting up the page size and footnote is a nightmare; anyone
have a recipe for doing this? Hacking existing files has been fairly
unsuccessful By default the page size is bigger than A4.
3) How do I get very big crescendo marks (<)?
4) Has anyone come up with a preprocessor so I can avoid using the
fiddly commands?
5) Is this package still being developed?
Despite the sparse documentation, MusicTeX seems worth using; it gives
very good results. But I haven't seen much said about it on the net...
Thank you in advance for any information.
Julian Smart, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA
TEL: 0382 562731 ext 2609 FAX: 0382 562426
EMAIL (UK): jmcn@uk.ac.ed.castle EMAIL (non UK): jmcn@castle.ed.ac.uk
EMAIL (INTERNET): jmcn%castle.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 17:49:47 +0000
From: NER034@uk.ac.tees-poly.prime-a
Subject: Chapter "references"
I have been writing a farly large document of late. I would like each chapter
of this document to have a list of references at the end. I would also like
for the complete document to have a bibliography section at the end of the
document.
Does anyone know of a way of doing this without having to write the \bibitem's
myself. I have a vary large set of .BIB files in use on this document. I woul
d
like to have a \references command simmuler to the \bibliography command, but
worked only on items referenced in the given chapter. It would be nice if I
could get BibTeX to do all the nasty work of writing the \bibitem's for me.
I am using the emTeX (version 3.0 [3a]) implementation of LaTeX (verion 2.09),
with BibTeX (version 0.99c [3c]).
Peter Knaggs School of Computing and Mathematics, Teesside Polytechnic
NER034 @ UK.AC.TP Middlesbrough, Cleveland. TS1 3BA (0642) 342673
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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 22:21:54 +0000
From: CA_ROWLEY@uk.ac.open.acs.vax
Subject: RE: Chapter ""references""
> I have been writing a farly large document of late. I would like each chapte
r
> of this document to have a list of references at the end. I would also like
> for the complete document to have a bibliography section at the end of the
> document.
Nico Poppelier has, I believe, developed some files which may be what
you need: he can be contacted as:
N.POPPELIER@ELSEVIER.NL
Chris Rowley (on behalf of The Archivists)
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 91 17:32:18 +0000
From: Mark Baker <mab@uk.ac.southampton.parallel-computing-support>
Subject: dvi2hpgl
We have a Laser Jet III that does not have a PS cartridge. I am after
a dvi2hpgl driver for a Sun 4 (SunOS 4.1.1). Does such a driver exist ??
The source code of an hpgl driver of some type would be of use.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Mark
Dr. M.A. Baker
Parallel Computing Support Group
Southampton University Computing Services
The University
Southampton, S09 5NH tel: +44 703 593226
Hampshire, U.K e-mail: mab@soton.mail & mab@soton.par
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 91 23:03:59 +0000
From: C.N. Canagarajah <cnc10@uk.ac.cambridge.engineering>
Subject: NFSS
Hi...
Could someone enlighten me about the New Font Selection Scheme, please?
I would like to find the answers to the following questions.
1. How can it be used with TeX/LaTeX?
2. Where does one get the files necessary to use this method?
3. What is the issue number of TUGboat in which this method is explained?
thanks in advance
Raj
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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 91 15:31:00 +0100
From: Johannes L. Braams"Johannes L. Braams"
<J.L.Braams%nl.pttrnl@uk.ac.earn-relay>
Subject: New version of supertabular.sty from LISTSERV@HEARN
Hi,
A couple of minutes ago I refreshed the supertabular style option
on LISTSERV@HEARN. (the files SUPERTAB DOC and SUPERTAB STY)
The version number is now 3.6e, dated august 1st 1991.
The difference with the previous version is a bug-fix.
Johannes Braams
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 91 16:22:44 +0700
From: Rainer Schoepf <JL2%earn.dhdurz1@uk.ac.earn-relay>
Subject: Serious flaw in TUGboat supplement
In the TUG resource directory 1991, circulated together with TUGboat
issue 12#2, there is a serious error regarding the DANTE ftp server
in Stuttgart.
The DANTE ftp server is
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
or
rusMV1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
BUT NOT
rusVM1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.31]
The error appears at several places:
- Sources for TeX software
- entry for emTeX
- TeX archives
- entry for Stuttgart
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Dr. Rainer Schoepf
DANTE-Koordinator for Archive Servers
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh
Heilbronner Str. 10 am Morgen schon so
D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!''
Federal Republic of Germany
Email: <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
To access the List Server at Heidelberg send mail to
<LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET>
Useful commands for beginners are
HELP
GET README FIRST TEX
To access the DANTE server at Stuttgart, use either FTP to
rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
Please do not confuse this with rusvm1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de!
An alternate name is rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12]
or send mail to <mail-server@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Useful commands for beginners are
HELP
INDEX
Submissions should either be put into directory soft/tex/incoming on
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de or mailed to LIST-SUB@DHDURZ1.BITNET.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Date: Mon, 05 Aug 91 20:43:21 -0500
From: karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: software patents in the United Kingdom
The idiocy in the United States is spreading.
Write to me or league@prep.ai.mit.edu for more details about why
software patents are bad (unless you're a patent lawyer).
You can retrieve the League for Programming Freedom's position paper
against software patents (and the one against interface copyright) from
prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] in pub/lpf/patent.texinfo. Or I will send
it to you by email if you can't ftp.
karl@cs.umb.edu
X-From: CRJ10@uk.ac.cam.phx (Clive Jones)
Subject: Software patents in the UK
X-Date: 1 Aug 91 12:07:40 GMT
The article below appeared in a feature on the British Technology Group
(BTG) in "Software Echo", the journal of the Scottish Software Community,
issue 2.
The BTG is an organisation concerned with the "exploitation" (their words) of
new technology, including developments that result from SERC-funded research in
the UK academic community. (SERC is the British Science and Engineering
Research Council - the main funding body for UK scientific academic research.)
Thus its opinions on software patenting are of not inconsiderable importance,
which makes their current stance all the more worrying to those who have
observed the impact of software patents in other parts of the world.
There is an agreement between SERC and the BTG over expoloitation of any
interesting and potentially profitable innovations, in some cases to the point
of automatic notification of all patentable results. Researchers may be
interested in establishing whether their own departments have any policy
regarding the patenting of new algorithms.
The BTG representative who edited the section is:
Dr. Eugene Sweeney,
Electronics & Information Technology Division,
The British Technology Group,
101 Newington Causeway,
London SE1 6BU.
Tel: 071 403 6666
Fax: 071 403 0320
My thanks go to Steve Tweedie <st111@uk.ac.cam.phx> for pointing this article
out to me.
- --Clive.
- ----included-article-follows----
PATENTING SOFTWARE
This is an area in which BTG believes academic and research organisations can
make the most signficant contributions in the long term. Research groups in the
UK are well known for producing ideas that are important in computing science.
In the past, it was believed that these innovations could not be protected by
patenting because algorithms were not patentable. However, recent case law,
particularly in the USA, suggests that this is no longer true. Many major US
computer and software manufacturers now regularly file patent applications on
software concepts.
Areas in which BTG believe valuable, and patentable, software innovations could
arise are:
i) Parallel processing, eg new algorithms that exploit the parallel
architecture.
ii) Language design, eg functional programming languages that enable
algorithms to be specified in a computer-independent manner.
iii) Knowledge-based systems, eg natural-language recognition.
iv) Logic programming, with particular reference to safety-critical systems
and the corresponding design of integrated circuits.
v) Data compression, eg image or speech compression.
Software is, of course, automatically protected by copyright. This normally
belongs to the author (or his/her employer, depending on conditions of
employment).
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Date: Thu, 08 Aug 91 14:28:47 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: New files: TbeMacros.TeX & TbeSamples.TeX
[In the text that follows, `I'/`my' refers to Arvind Borde, not Philip Taylor]
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Some macros from my forthcoming book `TeX by Example' (Academic Press, 1992)
are available on disk or from various TeX archives. At the UK TeX Archive
they rest at
[TeX-Archive.Contributions.TbeFiles]
The macros are contained in the file `tbemacros.tex'; a second file
`tbesamples.tex' contains samples of their use. `00ReadMe.Txt'
contains a brief introduction.
The macros are of varying degrees of usefulness: some are faintly frivolous,
others meet commonly expressed needs. (A multiline comment macro, for example,
or one that provides symbols like `less than or approximately equal to' that
automatically shrink if used in super- and subscripts.)
Since the subject of `good' macros comes in occasionally for fierce debate
on TeX bulletin boards, I should state right away that I make no great claims
for my macros. Most have been kept deliberately simple, to encourage users
to modify and experiment.
The book itself should be out late this year, or in early 1992.
- - Arvind Borde
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