UKTeX Digest Friday, 16 Aug 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 33
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
problem with hyphenation
RE: problem with hyphenation
Re: problem with hyphenation
Virtual font use on the Macintosh.
TeX on DG MV20000
binaries on VMS - zapfile problems?
multiple indexes using LaTeX book.sty
TeX file formats?
emTeX documentation
DVIDVI for MS/DOS
wp2latex.pas
{Archive News}:
RE: How do I mail the Tex Server?
The Aston archive
Re: The Aston archive
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 91 00:41:00 +0000
From: Kish.Shen@uk.ac.cambridge.computer-lab
Subject: problem with hyphenation
I have a problem with TeX's hyphenation, and I wonder if anyone knows the
solution:
TeX is unable to hyphenate the word "parallelism". I use the word
"or-parallelism" quite often, and in some places the line breaks badly.
I don't want to use \- in every occurence of thw word, so I attempted to
add "parallelism" to the hyphenation exception dictionary:
\hyphenation{par-al-lel-ism}
Unfortunately, it seems that TeX is unable to deduce that "parallelism" in
"or-parallelism" can be hyphenated using the above exception. I then
tried to add or-parallelism to the list:
\hyphenation{par-al-lel-ism or-par-al-lel-ism}
this didn't work, I guess TeX thinks I am referring to the word
"orparallelism".
So my question is: how can I add a word that contains hyphens into the
exception dictionary?
Thanks in advance for any help! Please send replies to my e-mail address, as
I don't read this group frequently.
Kish Shen
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
ksh@cl.cam.ac.uk
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 91 08:46:00 +0000
From: malcolm <MALCOLMC@uk.ac.pcl.mole>
Subject: RE: problem with hyphenation
i suspect that with pre-TeX3 it is impossible to
add an already hyphenated word to the hyphenation
exception list. it {\em may} be possible to do something
with TeX3, since there is notionally a hyphenation
character (sort of separate from an implicit hyphen, i think)
in the 256 character fonts which were invented. but
that would require a re-run of patgen would it not?
TeX certainly does suppress hyphenation of words containing
explicit hyphenation (in my view, for quite sound reasons).
the only `easy' way i can see is something like
\def\op{or-par\-all\-el\-ism}
or however you want parallelism hyphenated, although i might
be inclined to fiddle with the \hyphenpenalty and \exhyphenpenalty
values (if only they were not paragraph local, rather than word local....).
i'm sure that dek has something to say about this,
but a cursory glance at the book doesn't reveal
anything.
malcolm
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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 91 11:01:31 +0100
From: schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Re: problem with hyphenation
Kish.Shen@computer-lab.cambridge.ac.uk writes:
I have a problem with TeX's hyphenation, and I wonder if anyone knows the
solution:
TeX is unable to hyphenate the word "parallelism". I use the word
"or-parallelism" quite often, and in some places the line breaks badly.
I don't want to use \- in every occurence of thw word, so I attempted to
add "parallelism" to the hyphenation exception dictionary:
TeX does not hyphenate words with an explicit hyphen in it, unless you
are forcing it to do so by writing, e.g.,
or-par\-al\-lel\-ism
Rainer Schoepf
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh
Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so
D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!''
Federal Republic of Germany
<Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de>
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 91 01:49:20 -0500
From: laurent%edu.toronto.math@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: Virtual font use on the Macintosh.
Virtual fonts are necessary for correct hyphenation of
languages with accents as planned by D. Knuth for TeX 3.0.
Neither OzTeX nor Textures, the two TeXs on
the Macintosh, have any plans to support virtual fonts with
their printer drivers in the near future. (Check for yourself
with the authors A. Trevorrow <NKS661@CSC1.ANU.EDU.AU> and
Brian Smith <barry@reed.bitnet>.)
However they support TeX 3 at the composition
level. That means one can get a valid .dvi file, provided one
uses font metric (.tfm) files coherent with the the new
virtual versions of the computer modern fonts. There are two
versions both recently released.
--- the "em" fonts of Arbor Text, contact
help@arbortext.com. They seem to include virtual versions of
Adobe Times etc.
--- the "dc" fonts of Bochum posted for anonymous ftp
transfer at ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23)
Both of these use the 1990 Cork standard for the full
eight bit range 0-255 (see Ferguson's article TUGboat Nov(?)
1990).
What is still missing on the Macintosh is a
"dvi ==> postscript" converter (printer driver) that handles
virtual fonts. The obvious candidate is DVIPS of Tom Rokicki.
HAS DVIPS BEEN, OR IS IT BEING COMPILED FOR THE MACINTOSH??
This compilation would be an important step. It would,
for the first time on the Macintosh computers, make it
possible to use TeX with correct hyphenation of European
languages.
Laurent Siebenmann
<siebenmann@LALCLS.decnet.cern.ch>
PS. I expect that modulo some tricks, it would
then be possible to use the built-in Textures and OzTeX
previews for proof versions providing one is willing to
recompile for the final dvips printing.
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 11:36:02 +0200
From: akgul%earn.trbilun@uk.ac.earn-relay
Subject: TeX on DG MV20000
TeX on DG MV20000 AOS/VS
I have TeX 3.1 running on the above machine, together with
Tangle 4.2, Weave 4.1 and BibTeX 0.99c.
TeX has medium size, i.e. 128K main memory.
I have also BigTeX version (256K main memory).
I do not hvae Metafont, I use Sun Sparc for metafont.
I can mail change files to anybody interested.
Mustafa Akgul
Bilkent University
Ankara
akgul@trbilun.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 14:03:00 +0000
From: "CPCMH::S121"@uk.ac.east-anglia.cpc865
Subject: binaries on VMS - zapfile problems?
I mailed UkTeX recently (91-27) with a problem with the TFM files for
AMSTeX, and Brian HK explained that binary files in the Aston archive
were stored in variable length, max510byte files, but that TeX on VMS
expects fixed length 512 byte files. he also said that there could be
a utility to convert these files somewhere in the archive.
Well I converted the .tfms via kermit (which worked a treat but was
a bit sloooow). I then realised that all the .pk files for AMStex
would probably also be incorrect - sure enough they were.
(Although dvips used them fine, dvln03 and dvivdu both complained)
So I looked in the archive and found a utility called ZAPFILE, which
seemed to be what I was looking for. So I did what I thought would do
the conversion:
zapfile *.*pk/type=fixed/record_size=512/maximum_record_size=512
BUT.... I now get 'BAD pk file - pre command missing' for every one
of the fonts. Even dvips fails to read them now.
Looking at a dump of some of the files, each seems to just have got
two extra bytes in each record to 'make it up' to the 512 instead of
510, but I am not too sure what is going on.
So, can anyone help. Have I ruined the .pk files completely using
zapfile? How do I successfully convert binary files from the archive
into a format that VMS will accept (without transferring them twice
through kermit - which is OK for a few but not really any good for all
the .pk files which come with AMStex.) Is zapfile the utility I want?
Or is there something else?
thanks,
Ian Ellery
(ps - when a file containing the word 'Aston' goes through my spell
checker it suggests I change it to 'Satan' - is it trying to tell me
something?)
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 12:32:44 +0000
From: fwl@uk.ac.aberystwyth.compsci
Subject: multiple indexes using LaTeX book.sty
I am using the LaTeX book style but want more than one index,
i.e., I want a general index, a name index, etc.
Does anyone have, or know of, a style that allows this?
Fred Long.
Dr Fred Long, UUCP : {WALES}!ukc!aber-cs!fwl
Department of Computer Science, JANET: fwl@uk.ac.aber.cs
University College of Wales, Tel: +44 970 622440
ABERYSTWYTH, UK, SY23 3BZ. Fax: +44 970 617172
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Date: 13 Aug 91 12:20:30 +0000
From: jq@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: TeX file formats?
I have recently discovered a letter in Tugboat (volume 7, number1) detailing
the issues in which information about TeX file descriptions can be found.
They are as follows:
DVI volume 3, number 2, 14-19
GF volume 6, number 1, 8-11
PK volume 6, number 3, 115-120
PXL volume 2, number 3, 8-12
TFM volume 2, number 1, 12-16
If anybody has these issues and can contact me so that we can arrange forwardin
g to me so that I can read over them I would be most grateful. I will of cours
e
make good any postage costs.
Cheers
John
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 15:17:36 +0000
From: J M Hicks <cudat@uk.ac.warwick.cu>
Subject: emTeX documentation
In the directory [TEX-ARCHIVE.TEX.MS-DOS.EMTEX] of the Aston
archive there are files called DVIDRV.ENG and HELPE.TXT which
appear to me to be out of date.
DVIDRV.ENG is annotated as version 1.3i 26/2/1990 but my copy
is annotated as version 1.4d 25/9/1990. (I obtained my copy
from the Aston archive earlier this year.)
HELPE.TXT is dated 22nd June 1990 but HELP.ENG is dated 25/9/1990.
These two files seem to be different editions of the same thing.
If I'm right, I feel that the out of date documents would best be
removed.
Jim Hicks, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry, England. CV4 7AL
Office: Coventry (O2O3) 523262
cudat@UK.AC.WARWICK.CU
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 18:55:17 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: DVIDVI for MS/DOS
At yesterday's UK-TuG committee meeting, interest was expressed in an
implementation of DVIDVI for MS/DOS; does anyone know of such an implementation
,
please ?
Philip Taylor
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
``The University of London at Windsor''
[replies only to the list, please; I am away for seven weeks. ** Phil]
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 12:25:00 +0000
From: Peter Flynn UCC <CBTS8001@IE.UCC.IRUCCVAX>
Subject: wp2latex.pas
the file wp2latex.pas from aston fails to compile under vms.
i'm not a pascaler, so you'll have to forgive the ignorance.
the prog is commented in dutch: is there anyone who can point
at the author for me?
///Peter
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 91 16:49:00 +0000
From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly} " <TEX@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs>
Subject: RE: How do I mail the Tex Server?
In message <9108070650.AA29771@microware.co.uk>
of Wed, 7 Aug 91 9:09 BST, Tony Mountifield <tony@uucp.mwuk> wrote:
> Please could you tell me how to mail the Aston Tex Server?
> I tried texserver@tex.aston.ac.uk, but it bounced with a message saying
> something like "site unknown".
>
> Thanks for your help.
The simple answer is that the UK TeX Archive at Aston University has had
its own dedicated machine since December of 1990, and you should address
TeXserver@uk.ac.tex; the uk.ac.aston.tex entry was removed from the NRS
in January 1991.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs +
+ BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk +
+ INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk +
+ UUCP: {mcsun,ukc,uunet}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex +
+ Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military +
+ College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K. +
+ Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International) +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 91 20:57:38 +0000
From: MD2RJH@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.IBM
Subject: The Aston archive
Help!,
I no longer seem able to access the public archive at Aston. I have tried
ftp from public (public) @ aston.tex, and have tried sending the correct
formatted message to texserver @ aston.tex, but with no avail. I used to use
the archive extensively, but now it seems to have become unaccessable.
Am I doing something wrong? Yours- Richard Hillier
md2rjh@uk.ac.shef.ibm
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 11:40:57 +0000
From: CA_ROWLEY@uk.ac.open.acs.vax
Subject: Re: The Aston archive
> Help!,
>
> I no longer seem able to access the public archive at Aston. I have trie
d
> ftp from public (public) @ aston.tex, and have tried sending the correct
> formatted message to texserver @ aston.tex, but with no avail. I used to use
> the archive extensively, but now it seems to have become unaccessable.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Yours- Richard Hillier
Yes, your problems are due to the fact that the archive now resides on
a machine whose address is:
uk.ac.tex
Chris Rowley (on behalf of Brian {Hamilton Kelly})
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 11:59:40 +0000
From: MD2RJH@UK.AC.SHEFFIELD.IBM
Subject: Re: The Aston archive
Thanks,
All is well now! I checked the NISS Bulletin Board, where I originally
got the aston address from, it is still the old address there. Thought I'd let
you know.
Richard Hillier
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