UKTeX Digest Friday, 3 Apr 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 13
``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary
service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.''
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Re: Is the QMS-PS 825 MR
TeX training for secretaries
Amiga TeX?
Re: Amiga TeX?
Re: Amiga TeX?
makeindex feature
makeindex feature
LaTeX nfss \default@family
Tex Previewers for Dec-windows
Previewer for Sun SparcStation wanted
Re: Previewer for Sun SparcStation wanted
How to make archive contributions?
Re: How to make archive contributions?
afm2tfm on DOS 5.
New version of LaTeX---style file bugs
{Announcements}:
eplain 2.1 released
Update to STYles at FILESERV/Niord
British hyphenation patterns in beta test
{Archive News}:
Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 31-MAR-1992 23:21:26.10
Administrivia:
Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 09:17:00 +0100
From: Max Calvani - Italy <FISICA%it.unipd.astrpd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: Is the QMS-PS 825 MR
I have no experinece with that particular model, but I know that QMS
800/1200 are very good and strong machines, better than Digital ones.
max
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 10:44:06 +0000
From: HEWLETT@uk.ac.lse.vax
Subject: TeX training for secretaries
The following appeared on IT-TRAINING-GEN@uk.ac.MAILBASE.
I think it would be useful if it also appeared in UKTeX
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X-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 8:58:24 GMT
X-From: "Kerstin Mussell" <K.Mussell@uk.ac.bristol>
Reply-To: K.Mussell@uk.ac.bristol
Telephone: 0272 303030 extension 3038
Regarding training needs. I have a particular problem in Bristol with
secretarial training in TeX. We have no official support for TeX and
our Maths department are now going over from T3 to TeX with the idea
that their secretaries can play a more active part in preparing the
documents. Although they have expertise in the department, they don't
have any obvious "trainers" with the necessary empathy for
secretarial training and I am not in a position to start offering
training. Does anyone train secretarial staff in TeX separately
from academic staff and, if so, can they pass on any useful
information? Alternatively does anyone know of a suitable basic
course in TeX which would be appropriate for secretaries? I have
several very useful introductory documents which will help, but face
to face tuition is what the secretaries are requesting.
Kerstin Mussell
Secretarial IT Training Advisor
University of Bristol
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 17:05:49 +0000
From: J.Bennett@uk.ac.surrey.ee
Subject: Amiga TeX?
Can anyone help? I have an Amiga, and would like to know if LaTeX is
available for it. I have heard rumours of such, but have never seen or heard
anything concrete.
\thanks
Jono.
- --
Jonathan Bennett, author extraordinaire.(j.bennett@uk.ac.surrey.ee)
(ee02jb@uk.ac.surrey)
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 12:03:00 +0100
From: Max Calvani - Italy <FISICA%it.unipd.astrpd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: Amiga TeX?
PD amiga TeX is at FTP wuarchive.wustl.edu in decus/tex
Max
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 16:23:44 +0000
From: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.pcl.sun>
Subject: Re: Amiga TeX?
AmigaTeX (a la Rockiki):
\quid140 from
Industrial Might & Logic
58 Cobden Road
Brighton BN2 2TJ
0273 621393
free demo disk available for written enquiry.
claims to support postscript graphics and fonts
on screen. uses tom's virtual driver.
malcolm
(i have no financial interest etc, but
tom's a real nice guy)
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 92 17:37:06 +0000
From: Alan Jeffrey <alanje@uk.ac.sussex.cogs>
Subject: makeindex feature
If I write a LaTeX document with a very long index entry:
This is an index entry.
\index{This is a very long index entry that has a habit
of wandering off on its own accord somewhere you know how it is}
Then I run makeindex, and get:
This is makeindex, portable version 2.5 [4-14-88].
Scanning input file test.idx....done (1 entries accepted, 0 rejected).
Sorting entries...done (0 comparisons).
Generating output file test.ind....done (6 lines written, 0 warnings).
Output written in test.ind.
Transcript written in test.ilg.
This produces the file test.ind:
\begin{theindex}
\item This is a very long index entry that has a habit
of wandering off on its own accord somewhere you
know how it is
\subitem off on its own accord somewhere you know how it is, 1
\end{theindex}
In general, running makeindex on .idx files with long lines seems to
produce entries with spurious \subitem's.
Has anyone any suggestions as to what's going wrong?
Alan.
Alan Jeffrey Tel: +44 273 606755 x 3238 alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk
School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences, Sussex Univ., Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 17:16:26 +0100
From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay
Subject: makeindex feature
Alan Jeffrey <alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
If I write a LaTeX document with a very long index entry:
This is an index entry.
\index{This is a very long index entry that has a habit
of wandering off on its own accord somewhere you know how it is}
....
In general, running makeindex on .idx files with long lines seems to
produce entries with spurious \subitem's.
Has anyone any suggestions as to what's going wrong?
Most implementations of makeindex use character arrays of fixed
length. Older versions (like 2.5) will happily spill extra characters
from the main array into the following subitem array. I'm not sure
whether this has been corrected in one of the more recent versions,
but I think you now get an error message.
Sorry for not being able to give more help,
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.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 12:28:34 +0000
From: Alan Jeffrey <alanje@uk.ac.sussex.cogs>
Subject: LaTeX nfss \default@family
If I write the following document:
\documentstyle{article}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{cmss}\rm
\showthe\font
\begin{document}
\showthe\font
These are words.
\end{document}
Then I get:
This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3
(test.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <14 January 1992>
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/article.sty
Standard Document Style `article' <14 Jan 92>.
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/art10.sty))
> \cmss/m/n/10 .
<recently read> \font
l.6 \showthe\font
?
(test.aux)
> \cmr/m/n/10 .
<recently read> \font
l.10 \showthe\font
?
[1] (test.aux) )
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 280 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
That is, even though I've defined the default roman to be cmss, this
gets reset to cmr by \begin{document}. The reason is that \document
calls \@normalsize, which calls \@setsize, which includes:
\fontfamily \default@family
and \default@family is defined to be cmr. Thus, setting \rmdefault
and calling \rm is not enough to set the default roman. To get round
this, my document styles redefine \default@family:
\def\default@family{\rmdefault}
Shouldn't this be the defintion in fontdef.*?
Cheers,
Alan
Alan Jeffrey Tel: +44 273 606755 x 3238 alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk
School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences, Sussex Univ., Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 12:15:28 +0000
From: UHAA001@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax
Subject: Tex Previewers for Dec-windows
I would be very grateful if anyone out there could tell me something
about the availability, functionality etc of TeX previewers which will
run under Dec-windows/Motif in a Vax/VMS environment.
Lesley Morgan (Computer Centre, RHBNC, London)
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 13:53:00 +0000
From: John Mc Mahon <CSG0002@uk.ac.queens-belfast.vax2>
Subject: Previewer for Sun SparcStation wanted
Hello,
sorry to bother you, but I can't seem to get any help from others
around here (Queens Belfast).
I use Latex a lot (have done in the past), but now I am at Queens and
can't find anyone who uses it a lot.
The main problem is trying to find a previewer.
They have a program called DVITOVDU but no-one can get anything but
horrible ascii characters out of it.
I asked my local Comp Centre for advice and the suggested that I
get some software from the TeX archive.
But what am I looking for?
I just want a previewer. Can you get them separately?
I can get access to a sun4 (Sparc Station IPC 440), so a previewer
on that would be nicest.
so the help I need :
what do I need (where is the software, what is it called, do I need to
encode/archive/install it?)
thank you VERY much for any help
yours
John Mc Mahon
email: j.mcmahon@qub.v2.ac.uk
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Date: 02 Apr 92 08:30:40 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Previewer for Sun SparcStation wanted
John Mc Mahon <CSG0002@uk.ac.queens-belfast.vax2> writes:
> I just want a previewer. Can you get them separately?
>
> I can get access to a sun4 (Sparc Station IPC 440), so a previewer
> on that would be nicest.
> so the help I need :
The simplest one to set up and get working is xdvi. It uses the same
set of 300 dpi fonts you very likely have already for your laser
printer. The files you want are in the UK TeX Archive (uk.ac.tex).
how you get them depends on your site's abilities to do ftp, niftp
etc. To install, read the file called README
Sebastian
Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.XDVI]
00FILES.TXT;1 00README.TEX;2 AUTHOR.;4 DECWINDOWS.DIR;1
DVI.H;3 DVI_DRAW.C;3 DVI_INIT.C;3 GF.C;3
IMAKEFILE.;4 MAKEFILE.;4 MAKEFILE_10.;4 MAKE_VMS.COM;2
MKSEDSCRIPT.;3 PATCHLEVEL.H;3 PK.C;3 PXL.C;3
PXL_OPEN.C;3 README.;4 README.VMS;2 SEDSCRIPT.;1
TPIC.C;3 VMS_C.OPT;2 XDVI.1;1 XDVI.C;3
XDVI.H;3 XDVI.ICON;4 XDVI.MAN;1 XDVI.RNH;2
XDVI_CURS.H;3 XDVI_MAN.SED;2 XDVI_MASK.H;3
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 18:45:01 +0000
From: Dave Love <d.love@uk.ac.daresbury>
Subject: How to make archive contributions?
Could an archivist please post the current procedure for making
contributions to the Aston archive (and could it be added to the UKTeX
trailer and put somewhere obvious in the archive?). The info I have
is to NIFTP as `contributions' and then mail archive-contributions
about it, but this doesn't seem to achieve anything... Is it possible
to send in contributions by internet ftp, BTW?
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 10:10:25 +0000
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.mips>
Subject: Re: How to make archive contributions?
In UKTeX V91 #37, Brian wrote
Perhaps this is an opportune time for the editor to remind readers where
to send submissions to the archive: transfer them by NIFTP to uk.ac.tex,
username CONTRIBUTIONS, with a null password. THEN send mail to
Archive-Contributions@uk.ac.tex announcing what you've put there; one of
the archivists will then move the files to their appropriate location
and resend your announcement, now supplemented by the location
information, to UKTeX for publication.
Those without NIFTP capability should just send the announcement to the
archivists, one of whom will then contact the submittor to arrange
collection, possibly by anonymous FTP *from* the submittor's site.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
TCP ftp also works over JIPS to username contributions; press <return>
when asked for a password.
- --Dave
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 92 16:05:07 +0700
From: Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.cc.sequent>
Subject: afm2tfm on DOS 5.
I have emTeX and dvips. I got a PostScript font (.afm and .pfb) and
tried to follow the instructions in the dvips document. However,
afm2tfm won't run on my machine. It stops "out of memory" while
reading the .afm file. It stops at different points, depending on the
config and the amount of usable memory, but the maximum I could easily
provide (according to mem/c) was 612k for the user program and it was
stopping well before the end of the datafile. Has anyone successfully
run afm2tfm on a standard DOS machine?
- --
(R.) Allan Reese Janet: r.a.reese@uk.ac.hull
Head of Applications Direct voice: +44 482 465296
Computer Centre Voice messages: +44 482 465685
Hull University Fax: +44 482 466441
Hull HU6 7RX, U.K.
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Date: 03 Apr 92 11:51:12 +0000
From: m.piff@uk.ac.sheffield.primea
Subject: New version of LaTeX---style file bugs
The latest version of LaTeX seems to have some bugs in the style files.
I have not had time to check all of them, but here is an example.
In BOOK.STY, we find
\def\theindex{\@restonecoltrue\if@twocolumn\@restonecolfalse\fi
\columnseprule \z@
\columnsep 35\p@\twocolumn[\@makeschapterhead{\indexname}]%
\@mkboth{\uppercase{\indexname}}{\uppercase{\indexname}}%
\thispagestyle{plain}\parindent\z@
\parskip\z@ plus .3\p@\relax\let\item\@idxitem}
Now, because of the way \uppercase operates, \uppercase{\cs} just gives
\cs again, without any change, and so the index is headed Index and not INDEX.
One fix is presumably to change \uppercase to
\expandafter\uppercase\expandafter
everywhere above, but I have not had time to check whether that catches
all occurrences---it would not work on \uppercase{abc \cs} for instance.
Mike Piff
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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 12:21:53 -0500
From: karl%edu.umb.cs@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: eplain 2.1 released
I have released Eplain version 2.1. It is available by ftp from
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{eplain/*,eplain.tar.Z}
ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/eplain/eplain-2.1.tar.Z
You can also get it by email from George Greenwade's file server if you
cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a body of something like
`SENDME EPLAIN.EPLAIN_TEX'.
btxmac.tex no longer unconditionally defines \\ (to nothing useful), in
case some previous macro package has already defined it.
I inadvertently left arrow.tex out of the original 2.0. It's in 2.1, so
you can hack commutative diagrams to your heart's content.
I've included a section in the documentation on software patents and
user interface copyrights.
For those of you who haven't heard of Eplain: it is a collection of
macros intended to provide relatively low-level capabilities, regardless
of how your document appears. For example, it has macros to do symbolic
cross-referencing, but not macros to produce a section heading. It also
has some definitions that make it easier to change the conventions of
plain TeX's output. For example, it lets you produce left-justified
math displays by simply saying `\leftdisplays'.
karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 14:29:43 -0600
From: George D. Greenwade"George D. Greenwade"
<bed_gdg%edu.shsu@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Update to STYles at FILESERV/Niord
I'm truly sorry to those who have forwarded styles for me to add to our
archives. Things have been sort of busy, so I've gotten a little behind.
I will be sending out some notices within the next few days regarding
updates which have been made, but are either undocumented or unannounced.
This is my first set of announcements, so please bear with me.
The first files of interest are two updates by David Carlisle
<carlisle@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk> to longtable.sty, and
newarray.sty.
longtable.sty defines the longtable environment, a multipage version
of tabular. New in version 3:
* The table does not have to start at the top of the page.
* The documentation uses Mittelbach's doc.sty, so the documentation
file longtable.tex is no longer needed.
* Support for footnotes.
* Many minor modifications. (One of the problems with using doc.sty
is that it makes the author read his own code!)
newarray.sty is an extension of Mittelbach's array.sty, which allows
the user to easily specify new column types, and delimiters around the
alignment. Also \extracolsep works with this style.
Version 1 has a rather embarrassing bug in the treatment of @ and !
expressions. These were prematurely expanded inside an \edef, which
may cause some rather spectacular errors. Please upgrade to Version 2
if you have a copy of Version 1.
To retrieve either of these files, please include the commands:
SENDME STY.LONGTABLE
SENDME STY.NEWARRAY
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.edu (FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET).
The second set of files were submitted by James Darrell McCauley
<jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu>. First is an update to endfloat.sty, which puts
all LaTeX figures and tables on pages at the end of an article in
individual sections (optionally labelled). In-text references can be made
where the text of the table of figure should have been placed. This new
version (1.2) provides internationalization in naming and verifies that the
floats were used before a section is created for them. Include the command
SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file.
Second in Darrell's submissions are cea.sty and cea.bst. These are the
unofficial LaTeX and BibTeX style files for Elsevier's ``Computers and
Electronics in Agriculture'' submissions, respectively.
To retrieve these, include in your mail message to FILESERV:
SENDME STY.ENDFLOAT
SENDME STY.CEA*
The third file set of interest is Peter Ungar's cropmark.tex, a TeX macro
to produce cropmarks in plain TeX. Include the command SENDME
STY.CROPMARK_TEX in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this file.
Finally, Darrel Hankerson <hank@ducvax.auburn.edu> submitted a clean-up of
pagefoots.sty. This style numbers footnotes beginning on ``1'' for each
page. By default, it uses the \fnsymbol to "number" the footnotes (this is
controlled by the first line of \newfoots); and it gets rid of the usual
footnote rule, and inserts more vertical space for footnotes. Include the
command SENDME STY.PAGEFOOTS in your mail to FILESERV to retrieve this
file.
- --George
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 92 17:12:56 +0000
From: ucgadkw@uk.ac.ucl
Subject: British hyphenation patterns in beta test
I know this is headed April 1st, but this isn't a joke, honest.
I have *at last* managed to build a bigPATGEN under DOS, using
Delorie's gcc port and go32 DOS extender.
Using the above, and a great deal of help from Graham Toal, I have
generated a set of hyphenation patterns for British English.
These are based on a list of 114000-odd hyphenated words made available
by OUP at no cost, so that the patterns could be made public as a
contribution to the TeX world.
I would like to hear from anyone interested in beta-testing these
patterns. That means running quite a lot of comparative tests,
having hyphenation dictionaries to hand. What I would like to
receive is a list of words to be included in a \hyphenation{...}
statement to be appended to ukhyphen.tex. Also, I would
be interested in a UK equivalent to the 1000 words weighted by hand
to the USA patterns. (See TeXbook, p.451.)
The UK patterns file is about 62k long, and you will need a TeX
that allows you to crank up the pattern (trie size) memory to about 15000.
Best wishes,
Dominik
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 23:21:35 +0000
From: UK TeX Archive Server <TeXserver@uk.ac.tex>
Subject: Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 31-MAR-1992 23:21:26.10
TeXserver usage analysis for the period:
1-MAR-1992 03:10:55.23 to 31-MAR-1992 22:04:00.47
A total of 606 requests were received from 155 callers
Of these, 15 requests were rejected,
2,261 FILE transfers were requested
(transferring a total of 115,267,654 bytes),
107 HELP requests were made,
171 DIRECTORY requests were made,
0 SEARCH requests were made,
39 WHEREIS requests were made,
A total of 2,261 file transfers were requested (totalling 115,267,654 bytes).
1,506 distinct files were requested - the 10 most requested files were:
21 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.LIST
14 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST7DAYS.FILES
10 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00LAST30DAYS.FILES
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.BEEBE.SRC]DVIEPS.C
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.BEEBE.SRC]DVIJET.C
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.BEEBE.SRC]DVIMAC.C
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.BEEBE.SRC]MAKEFILE.
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00ASTON.README
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00DIRECTORY.SIZE
5 requests for [TEX-ARCHIVE]00README.TXT
The following users transferred 90,220,886 bytes, which is 78% of the total
57,179,022 bytes requested by VERRIER@UK.AC.AFRC.RESA
6,217,558 bytes requested by ALANJE@UK.AC.SUSSEX.COGS
6,093,238 bytes requested by GULLIET%COM.DEC.ENET.EVTDD1@UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY
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[tex-archive]00directory_dates.list [tex-archive]00last30days.files
\section DIGESTS
This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory
[tex-archive.digests.uktex.92]
This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory
[tex-archive.digests.texhax.92]
Latest TeXhax: V92 #04
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[tex-archive.digests.tex-mag]
Latest TeXMaG: V5N3
\section MEDIA DISTRIBUTIONS
\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape
Latest copy of May/June 1991 contains:
TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities
suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V
tar format, 1600bpi, blockfactor 20, 1 file (36Mb)
Copies available on:
One 2400ft 0.5" tape sent to Aston with return labels AND return postage
OR One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format (DC600A or DC6150)
sent with envelope AND stamps for return postage to Nottingham
(This service is offered only within the UK).
(addresses below).
\subsection VMS tapes
VMS backup of the archive requires three 2400ft tapes at 6250bpi.
VMS backup of TeX 2.991 plus PSprint requires one 2400ft tape.
\subsection Exabyte 8mm tapes
Same contents available as 0.5" tapes.
Following tape types available: SONY Video 8 cassette P5 90MP,
MAXELL Video 8 cassette P5-90, TDK Video 8 cassette P5-90MPB
\section TeX IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR SMALL COMPUTERS
\subsection OzTeX V1.4 (for Macintosh)
Send 7 UNFORMATTED 800K disks to Aston with return postage.
\subsection emTeX (for MS-DOS)
The complete package (3.5" High density disk format ONLY)
is available from Aston at a cost of 15 pounds,
including disks, post and packing.
For general enquiries, and a free catalogue detailing other disk
formats, precompiled fonts and lots of other goodies, contact:
Eigen PD Software, P.O. Box 722, Swindon SN2 6YB (tel: 0793-611270)
(JANET e-mail address: kellett@uk.ac.cran.rmcs)
\subsection TeX for the Atari ST
All enquiries for disks etc. should be directed to:
The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD
(JANET e-mail address: mdryden@uk.co.compulink.cix)
\section POSTAGE RATES
All prices in Pounds Sterling.
For Aston orders, make cheques payable to Aston University.
0.5" tapes: UK: 2.50 (one tape), 5.00 (two tapes).
Europe: 5.00 (one tape), 9.00 (two tapes).
Outside Europe please enquire.
8mm tapes:
UK: 1.00, Europe: 2.00.
Quarter-inch cartridges:
UK: 1.00, Europe: 2.00.
Diskettes:
Quantity/Size Europe World UK 1st UK 2nd
18/3.5" 3.10 5.10 1.40 1.10
11/3.5" 1.80 2.90 0.80 0.65
18/5.25" 1.20 2.00 0.60 0.50
11/5.25" 0.80 1.30 0.50 0.35
\section POSTAL ADDRESSES
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)
\section UK TeX USERS GROUP
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