UKTeX Digest Friday, 1 Nov 1991 Volume 91 : Issue 41
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Drawing Lines with LATEX
Computers & Typesetting: the state of the art
University of Washington (not Washington University)
fonts for SPARCprinter
Re: fonts for SPARCprinter
DVIPS for VAX - bug and suggested fix
Civilization at Hull.
Headers in LaTeX
PostScript with emTeX
RE: PostScript with emTeX
{Announcements}:
LamS-TeX for users of AMS-TeX
{Archive News}:
Greek and TeX
Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 31-OCT-1991 23:17:23.91
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 13:27:34 +0000
From: ALA S R <dg504@uk.ac.city>
Subject: Drawing Lines with LATEX
Does the UNIX version of LATEX have a facility to draw lines at any angle
similar to the "emline" facility of EMTEX ?
Thanks
S.R.Ala
City Univ., London
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 16:46:36 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: Computers & Typesetting: the state of the art
At the most recent meeting of the UK TeX Users' Group, a member asked if it
was known whether volumes B & D had been re-printed to take account of the
changes involved in the transcendental versions of TeX and MetaFont. No-one
present at the meeting was able to give the definitive answer, so the oracle
was consulted, and after enormous effort (this is no joke), Barbara was
finally able to elicit the following information from the publishers ...
Computers & Typesetting, by Donald E. Knuth
printing
ref.no. vol. title edition number date
hardbound:
13447 A The TeXbook 1 11th June 1, 1991
13437 B TeX: The Program 1 4th May 1, 1991
13445 C The METAFONTbook 1 4th Sept, 1991
13438 D METAFONT: The Program 1 4th Oct, 1991
13446 E Computer Modern Typefaces 1 3rd Aug, 1987
soft/spiral bound:
13448 The TeXbook 1 20th May 1, 1991
13444 The METAFONTbook 1 6th Feb, 1991
note: all printings are marked "with corrections"
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 91 16:08:07 -0800
From: Ernesto Alvarado <alonso@edu.washington.u>
Subject: University of Washington (not Washington University)
I just noticed that you have been refering as Washington University as
the Tex-Unix distribution center. Is'n the place the University of Washington
and not the Washington University, which is another well known University
at S. Louis? (Although its full name I think is George Washington
University)
Cheers from the University of Washington
E. Alvarado
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 13:01:45 +0000
From: David Burgess <dhb@uk.ac.qmw.maths>
Subject: fonts for SPARCprinter
I want to generate fonts, using METAFONT, to use with SPARCprinter at both
300dpi and 400dpi.
Does anybody have, or can tell where to get, suitable mode_defs for the
<SITE>-modes.mf file?
Any help much appreciated ... please email me directly, as I do not follow
this list closely.
David Burgess
Astronomy Unit, QMW, London
dhb@uk.ac.qmw.maths
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 13:27:20 +0000
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.mips>
Subject: Re: fonts for SPARCprinter
In a message of 29 Oct 91 13:05:09 GMT, David Burgess said:
> I want to generate fonts, using METAFONT, to use with SPARCprinter at both
> 300dpi and 400dpi.
>
> Does anybody have, or can tell where to get, suitable mode_defs for the
> <SITE>-modes.mf file?
In the Aston TeX Archive, of course!
Fetch the file [tex-archive.metafont.contrib]modes.mf from uk.ac.tex
(username public, password public). This is version 0.7 of Karl
Berry's set of mode_def's and includes one for the SPARCprinter
(at 400dpi).
- --dave
David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group)
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 13:18:44 +0000
From: SYSMGR@uk.ac.kcl.ph.ipg
Subject: DVIPS for VAX - bug and suggested fix
We are currently moving from an LN03 printer (non-postscript) to a
DEClaser-2100 (postscript) printer on our VAX systems. While putting
DVIPS through its paces I discovered an annoying bug in the VMS
port obtained from the TeX archive. The EPSF macro command
\epsffile{PSDIR:GRAPH.EPS}
was processed OK by TeX, but DVIPS compained that it couldn't find
the file! Changing this to
\epsffile{GRAPH.EPS}
worked, but of course then relied on all the path stuff being set up
correctly. Whereas this is great on systems like U**X and DOS that
don't have VMS logical names, it isn't exactly what VMS users want
to have to learn about.
A bit of rummaging in the source code revealed the bug, and the fix
was, as they say, trivial. It is as follows: the source file SEARCH.C
currently reads (starting about 35 lines into the file)
FILE *
search(path, file, mode)
char *path, *file, *mode ;
{
extern char *getenv(), *newstring() ;
register char *nam ; /* index into fname */
register FILE *fd ; /* file desc of file */
char fname[MAXPATHLEN] ; /* to store file name */
static char *home = 0 ; /* home is where the heart is */#ifdef
VMS
if (*file == DIRSEP) { /* if full path name */
if ((fd=fopen(file,mode)) != NULL)
return(fd) ;
else
return(NULL) ;
}
etc. The bug is assuming that the difference between a fully qualified
filename and a pure name.type filename can be spotted by inspecting the
name's first character. Not true on VMS - you have to scan the whole string
for the presence of ':' or ']' to tell the difference.
The following changes fix the bug. I have put them in as conditionally
compiled #ifdef VMS blocks.
FILE *
search(path, file, mode)
char *path, *file, *mode ;
{
extern char *getenv(), *newstring() ;
register char *nam ; /* index into fname */
register FILE *fd ; /* file desc of file */
char fname[MAXPATHLEN] ; /* to store file name */
static char *home = 0 ; /* home is where the heart is */
#ifdef VMS
char *f;
#endif
#ifdef VMS
/* existing test is wrong on VMS. On VMS, need to look for the presence of
':' or ']' within the filename to determine if it's a full name */
for( f=file; *f != '\0'; f++) if( *f == ':' || *f == ']' ) {
#elif
if (*file == DIRSEP) { /* if full path name */
#endif
if ((fd=fopen(file,mode)) != NULL)
return(fd) ;
else
return(NULL) ;
}
etc.
It's probably better still to replace routine search altogether with a
call to VMS's extended fopen using an appropriate defaultname, but that's
a more radical change and would louse up the documentation (DVIPS.TEX)
more than this simple one does. For most users they'll never notice a
difference.
Hope this helps other VAX users,
Nigel Arnot ( NRA @ UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG)
PS - does a copy of this get put in the TeX archive?
PPS - If the Ukraine becomes independant, do we have to change the name
of all the UK. networks?
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 91 18:30:47 +0000
From: R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull
Subject: Civilization at Hull.
Yon Paul Harrison might care to contact his Computer Centre
before making broadcasts about conditions round here. The actual
position is that 'THE' word-processor pushed and fully supported
at Hull Univ is MS Word, and it is widely used in departmental
offices and by staff and students. There are a few users of WordPerfect,
mostly people who have moved from elsewhere. There are numerous, mainly
pirate copies of WordStar, mainly used by students. I have promoted
TeX here for the last two years and found various pockets of existing
TeX/LaTeX users whose job did not include proselytising - so they
didn't. TeX has been mentioned in every Centre newsletter for the
last couple of years and use is growing. emTeX is available on any
PC attached to the Centre Novell fileserver, and I cannot see why anyone
should wish to build their own copy on a machine otherwise unsupported
here, except as an academic exercise.
The latest revision of The Local Guide to TeX at Hull University
(20 pages, including details of the User Group) is currently on my
desk, if PH can find his way to obtain a copy.
While I'm blowing off: We also obtained OZTEX since we have just
(God help us) installed a room with Macs. Knowing little about the
objects, and having no written instructions, I managed to bung in the
first disk and clicked UNSTUFFIT onto the harddisk. But when I ran it
nothing happened apart from the banner pop-up. A colleague has since
installed OzTeX using UNSTUFFIT from somewhere else. Did we get a
corrupt disk or is it System N dependent? We're still using System 6.
Finally, a user who COULD read, and hence found my office has expressed
an interest in setting Japanese Kanji. I scanned the archive and
downloaded [JTEX]00readme.txt (without checking that may not be the
exact filename). But it turned out not to be a text file and certainly
didn't tell me how to proceed. Can someone enlighten me please on
whether JTEX is the best tool, and how to get started, and fonts etc?
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 14:02:00 +0000
From: "CPCMH::S121"@uk.ac.east-anglia
Subject: Headers in LaTeX
Having read section C.4.2 (p161-162) of the LaTeX book several
times, I am still totally confused about do-it-yourself headers.
What I want is a page, with no numbers, and a single, centred
header on each page. This header is the title of the paper.
So I used \pagestyle{myheaders}, and then
\markboth{}{\hfil The title of paper \hfil}
But, I get my title off centre, and a page number ranged right.
So I tried
\markboth{\hfil The title of paper \hfil}{}
and this time I just got the page number.
Finally, I tried
\markboth{\hfil The title \hfil}{\hfil The title \hfil}
but got the same as the first time: title slightly off centre, and a
page number on the right.
This is all using article style (although report does the same), using
the latest version of emTeX.
I am obviously missing somthing, so does anybody know how to NOT get
the page number, and is it just me or does this behaviour contradict
that given in Lamport, ie with \pagestyle{myheadings} I have control
of the contents of the heading?
Also, is there anyway to get BOTH a header and a footer in LaTeX? Or
is this such a crime against good taste and style that it is
impossible? (I dont want to do it - just curious)
Ta,
Ian
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 17:05:38 +0000
From: P Knaggs Research <cmr02@uk.ac.tees-poly.scm>
Subject: PostScript with emTeX
Does anyone have a DVI to PostScript converter working the emTeX style .FLI
Font Librarys?
Peter Knaggs School of Computing and Maths, Teesside Polytechnic,
pjk @ scm.tp.ac.uk Middlesbrough, England. +44 (642) 342673
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 17:32:27 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: PostScript with emTeX
Peter ---
>>> Does anyone have a DVI to PostScript converter working the emTeX style .FLI
>>> Font Librarys?
I don't have it working (I use ArborText's DVILASER/PS), but Tom Rokicki's
DVIPS V5.47 (normally packaged with emTeX) reputedly understands .FLI files.
Philip Taylor
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,
``The University of London at Windsor''
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 91 17:47:00 +0200
From: Michael Maschler
<MASCHLER%il.ac.huji.hujivms@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: LamS-TeX for users of AMS-TeX
USERS OF AMS-TEX,
There have been several inquiries concerning LamS-TeX. This will answer
them.
LamS-TeX is a package, written by Dr. Michael Spivak, the author of
AMS-TeX. It is \input'ed together with AMS-TeX to yield capabilities
similar to LateX and others, such as automatic numbering of formulas,
theorems, etc., preparing various kinds of lists, preparing table of
contents, cross-referencing, making an index, typing in verbatim mode,
setting all kinds of tables, partitioning matrices, placing figures
wherever one wants, and more. It intefaces with BibTeX, if one wants to.
It also enables the typesetter typeset commutative diagrams, for which
special fonts are added. It does not have an analog of LateX picture
environment, however.
One advantage of the package is that it is essentially compatible with
plain TeX, to which one can always revert for typesetting complicated
structures. Another advantage is that it allows a lot of plexibility
in devising one's own style. For example, one can set it so that Theorems,
Lemmas, Corrolaries, etc. are automatically enumerated separately, and
typeseted with different fonts and different styles. It can also be set so
that there is a common enumeration for these parts, yet keeping the
differences in the fonts and styles, as before.
LamS-TeX Version 2.0 is now public domain. The DOS version can be ftp'ed
from math.berkeley.edu (anonymous ftp), in /pub/lamstex.
The UNIX version as a compressed tar file is available by anonymous ftp at
june.cs.washington.edu.
One may also try
The TeX Users Group (TUG)
P. O. Box 9506
Providence, RI 02940-9508
Phone: 401/751-7760 FAX: 401/751-1071
Internet: tug@math.AMS.com
The LamS-TeX manual, "LamS-TeX, The Synthesis" approximately 300 pages,
wire bound, is available at
The TeXplorators Corporation,
3701 W. Alabama, Suit 450-273,
Houston, TX 77027
Tel: 713/524-5515
FAX: 713/523-6743
It costs $30.00, including postage (book rate, surface mail).
For first class mail add $1.50 in the United States.
For air mail to Europe, Canada, and Mexico add $7.50.
For air mail elswhere add $9.50
I am told that LamS-TeX Wizard's Manual is also available. It may interest
real TeX gurus. It explains the code of LamS-TeX in complete detail. So far,
a 600 pages Volume I is written, covering Part I of the Manual.
It costs $40 plus shipment, printed by a laser printer on both sides of
a 3-hole punched paper. For details contact The TeXplorators Corporation.
Michael
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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 91 14:11:23 +0000
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.southampton.ecs>
Subject: Greek and TeX
Kostas Dryllerakis has done a new packaging up of the Greek fonts
and macros from Levy and Haralambous, and added his own extra material
to make the Greek easy to use from LaTeX or TeX (including hyphenation
patterns). This is now in the UK TeX Archive in
[tex-archive.fonts.greek.kd]
which can be accssed in the normal way. The readme is appended.
Queries about this to Kostas, not UKTeX.
Sebastian rahtz
- -------------------------
GreeKTeX Ver 3.0[c] Distribution
[doc]
Documentation On installation and usage, man pages for unix.
grlatex.1 Man Pages for Grlatex package
install.tex Installation Notes (plain TeX)
usage.tex Usage Manual (plain TeX)
[install]
Installation scripts for fonts and formats
makefonts Create the KD family of fonts
[latex]
Basic Latex files for fomrat building and document styles.
grart10.sty grbk10.sty grbook.sty grkhyphen.tex
grart12.sty grbk11.sty greek.sty grmode.sty
grarticle.sty grbk12.sty grfonts.tex lgreek.tex
[tex]
Files for building greektex format and greek macros.
greek.tex Greek Format Definitions
greektex.tex Greek Macros for plain TeX
grkhyphen.tex Greek Hyphenation Patterns
[mfinput]
MF source code for font building.
kdaccent.mf kddigits.mf kdidigit.mf kdpunct.mf
kdbase.mf kdgr10.mf kdilower.mf kdsl10.mf
kdbf10.mf kdgr8.mf kdlig.mf kdti10.mf
kdbf8.mf kdgr9.mf kdligcom.mf kdtt10.mf
kdbf9.mf kdgreek.mf kdlower.mf kdupper.mf
Important Note:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you are building the greek extension of the LaTeX format
note that the old font coding scheme is used. The package -although it
will create a proper Format file- will not run properly under the
Mittelbach convention for font loading. Hint: Check your lfonts.tex file!
K J Dryllerakis
Logic Programming Group
Imperial College
kd@uk.ac.ic.doc
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 91 23:19:12 +0000
From: LIST_SERVER@uk.ac.tex
Subject: Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 31-OCT-1991 23:17:23.91
TeXserver usage analysis for the period:
1-OCT-1991 07:19:54.12 to 31-OCT-1991 19:24:30.59
A total of 459 requests were received from 123 callers
Of these, 13 requests were rejected,
1,933 FILE transfers were requested
(transferring a total of 81,486,741 bytes),
73 HELP requests were made,
100 DIRECTORY requests were made,
3 SEARCH requests were made,
26 WHEREIS requests were made,
A total of 1,930 file transfers were requested (totalling 81,889,985 bytes).
1,481 distinct files were requested - the 10 most requested files were:
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\section MEDIA DISTRIBUTIONS
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Latest copy of May/June 1991 contains:
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suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V
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