UKTeX Digest Friday, 1 May 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 17
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Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Re: LaTeX
Re: LATEX
Better \bar in TeX
emTeX beta-test and ^C trapping
tiff files into Tex
RE: tiff files into Tex
Re: RE: tiff files into Tex
Hyphenation problem with EmTeX
feynman - macros
Re: feynman - macros
Re: Graphical input to LaTeX?
location of demacs for anonymous FTP
Re: location of demacs for anonymous FTP
{Announcements}:
TUGboat 13 #1, April 1992
EuroTeX 92 call for papers reminder
EuroTeX 92 announcement
ukhyphen.tex for first public distribution
TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord
{Archive News}:
tr2latex in UK TeX Archive
PStricks package in UK TeX Archive
OzTeX 1.42 in uk tex archive
harvard styles updated in UK TeX Archive
GhostScript V2.4.1 now available
OzTeX V1.42 changes
Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 30-APR-1992 23:10:42.49
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 10:15:00 +0100
From: Max Calvani - Italy <FISICA%it.unipd.astrpd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: LaTeX
You can find in [.latex.general] all files needed to build Slitex.
Max
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 08:59:54 +0000
From: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.pcl.sun>
Subject: Re: LATEX
assuming no-one else has picked this up
(i've just been on holiday for a few days).
latex is a `macro' package which sits on
top of TeX (approximately). although there
is a diffeence between latex format for mac
(i assume that's what you mean by apple)
and ibm pc, that's not a real problem. the
sources are identical, and provided you have
a running TeX, the results are the same.
lightning textures is a commercial product,
available through texpert systems (o71-435-8983
or fax: 071 433 3576) in the uk. it only works
on macintoshes (preferably with 2Mbyte or
more). there is a windows version of TeX
which is vaguely similar (available commercially in
the us, see TUGboat), but not nearly as nice
(i'm a mac user).
there are pd versions of TeX for both pc
and mac (and atari, and amiga, and...).
malcolm
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 15:07:02 -0500
From: Brett Presnell <presnell%edu.ufl.stat@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Better \bar in TeX
I was going to send this directly to
J%org Knappen <KNAPPEN@de.Uni-Mainz.KPH.VKPMZD>
but I couldn't get through. Would you please forward?
- ------
This is something that I made up a long time ago. It's probably
not the best solution to your problem, but it has served me well
enough. If you get other responses, I'd appreciate it if you would
forward them to me. I'd be interested in any better ways of doing
this.
%
\newbox\df
\def\barrer#1#2{
{\rlap {$#1 #2$}
\setbox\df=\hbox{$#1 #2$}
\hskip .2\wd\df
\raise 1.15\ht\df \hbox{\vrule height.4pt width.8\wd\df depth0pt}
}
}
\def\mybar#1{{\mathpalette\barrer#1}}
\def\barhatter#1#2{
{\rlap {$#1 #2$}
\setbox\df=\hbox{$#1 #2$}
\hskip .2\wd\df
\widehat{\raise 1.15\ht\df
\hbox{\vrule height.4pt width.8\wd\df depth0pt}}
}
}
\def\mybarhat#1{{\mathpalette\barhatter#1}}
%
Now try $\mybar\Psi$ and $\mybarhat\Psi$.
- ---
Brett Presnell presnell@stat.ufl.edu
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Date: 28 Apr 92 14:02:59 +0000
From: Mike Piff<PIFF@uk.ac.sheffield.primea>
Subject: emTeX beta-test and ^C trapping
I have been using emTeX' beta-test TeX386 for some time without any
problems except for the following. I find it impossible to reliably
interrupt with ^C as usually TeX386 halts without any message apart from
"^C". The DVI file is then unusable, since use of DVISCR gives the
error message
*** Fatal error 2102: DVI file corrupted (DVI file ended prematurely)
This halting of TeX386 is not, however, always what happens.
I could not reproduce it on a small test file, yet on a larger file it
almost always happened.
I am using a Viglen SL3sx PC which has 640k memory plus 384k extended
memory. I have device HIMEM and also NDOSEDIT resident in memory.
Mike Piff
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 15:50:39 +0000
From: Hania Allen <ha@uk.ac.st-andrews>
Subject: tiff files into Tex
Is it possible to import TIFF files directly into TeX, without
first converting the file to PostScript?
Replies to me directly, please.
Thanks
Hania Allen (H.Allen@uk.ac.st-andrews)
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 16:46:16 +0000
From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TeX@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs>
Subject: RE: tiff files into Tex
In a message to UKTeX of Tue, 28 Apr 92 15:50:39 BST,
Hania Allen <ha@uk.ac.st-andrews> wrote:
> Is it possible to import TIFF files directly into TeX, without
> first converting the file to PostScript?
I have a sort-of experimental program that can convert some types of
TIFF files; although still only experimental, it *has* been in the TeX
Archiev at Aston for nearly a year now.
It can handle line images, which it converts into a Sixels file; the
latter can be printed directly on a number of DEC printers and
terminals, and notably can by included (through \special) in TeX output
processed by my DVI-to-LN03 driver.
But more usefully, if the TIFF image is grayscale, the program generates
a file of TeX commands for typesetting the image through use of a
grayscale font: this is therefore truly device independent, although may
cause problems (just through the sheer megacharacters/page) under
non-BIG implementations of TeX.
The program is written in WEB, and could be extended fairly readily:
would you be interested in so doing?
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 08:55:37 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Re: RE: tiff files into Tex
Brian writes:
> But more usefully, if the TIFF image is grayscale, the program generates
> a file of TeX commands for typesetting the image through use of a
> grayscale font: this is therefore truly device independent, although may
> cause problems (just through the sheer megacharacters/page) under
> non-BIG implementations of TeX.
Unless the `greyscale' (I presume you mean halftone) font you're using
is different from that developed by Knuth, you'll find that it is
resolution-dependent; and so the size at which an image appears in a
document differs with the resolution. That's why I have had to give
up the halftone font approach (which was much more aestetically
satisfying and doesn't suffer from many of the problems found in
conventional halftoning algorithms) in favour of \specials: with
specials, I can guarantee that the image comes out the same size on
a Linotronic as on my PS printers.
..Adrian
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 08:37:52 +0100
From: lmdmhi%se.ericsson.ludvig@uk.ac.uknet-relay
Subject: Hyphenation problem with EmTeX
Hello,
I am having some trouble setting up a DANISH format for EmTeX.
I have a set of danish hyphenation patterns, but the problem is
that they contain the `special' danish (and norwegian) characters
\ae, \o and \aa (which the PC can display, using code page 850/865).
Appearently, EmTeX won't allow these characters in the hyphenation
tables. I have tried catcode'ing them, which works just fine with
SBTeX.
Any hints?
/morten
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 15:47:16 +0600
From: Peter-Klaus Schilling <R02SCH%earn.dhhdesy3@uk.ac.earn-relay>
Subject: feynman - macros
when trying to ftp the FEYNMAN package from the UK TeX Archive
[tex-archive.latex.contrib.feynman] and [.doc]
i got the impression that most of the files are empty or incomplete.
what did i do wrong?
regards, peter
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Date: 30 Apr 92 06:45:55 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: feynman - macros
Peter-Klaus Schilling
<R02SCH%earn.dhhdesy3@uk.ac.earn-relay> writes:
> when trying to ftp the FEYNMAN package from the UK TeX Archive
> [tex-archive.latex.contrib.feynman] and [.doc]
> i got the impression that most of the files are empty or incomplete.
> what did i do wrong?
nothing. for some reason my upload failed. i can see no reason why at
all. all the files are empty. now I have to find out how to get it
back!
s
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Date: 29 Apr 92 14:30:45 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Graphical input to LaTeX?
Don Ward <don%uucp.careful@uk.ac.uknet-relay> writes:
>
> I'm writing a document in which I would like to insert several computer
> produced graphs. Can anybody suggest a suitable way of producing smooth
> interpolated curves from <x,y> points, adding axes and inserting it into a
> LaTeX document (either as a figure environment or as postscript)?
>
> The program to produce the points is yet to be written, so the input format
> to the graph tool can be whatever is required.
three possibilities:
a) use a common-or-garden spreadsheet package or other similar
package. many of them do what you want
b) look at `gnuplot'. this reads data and generates many sorts of
graphs, in various formats including LaTeX `picture', PicTeX, PS
etc
c) look at PiCTeX. the result will be pure TeX, but will need a big
TeX to run it
Sebastian
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Date: 30 Apr 92 10:52:06 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: location of demacs for anonymous FTP
Someone asked where GnuEmacs for anonymous FTP could be found. We
do not keep it in the UK TeX Archive, but lost of sites have it.
try
Host ftp.uu.net
Location: /systems/msdos/simtel20
DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x 512 Apr 12 23:50 demacs
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 17:00:04 +0000
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nottingham.ccc.mips>
Subject: Re: location of demacs for anonymous FTP
In message 00001018 of 30 Apr 92 12:11:03 GMT,
spqr@uk.ac.york.minster said:
> Someone asked where GnuEmacs for anonymous FTP could be found. We
> do not keep it in the UK TeX Archive, but lost of sites have it.
> try
> Host ftp.uu.net
>
> Location: /systems/msdos/simtel20
> DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x 512 Apr 12 23:50 demacs
For UK users, it's MUCH better to use the Imperial archive, which
shadows simtel20. demacs is in
doc.ic.ac.uk:micros/ibmpc/simtel20/demacs/
AND this is accessible via JANET NIFTP, for the impoverished.
As Imperial shadows sumex.stanford.edu (Info-Mac),
terminator.umich.edu (Atari + others), wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (DOS +
others), it's always worth looking there first.
- --Dave
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 92 23:08:06 -0500
From: bbeeton <BNB%com.ams.math@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: TUGboat 13 #1, April 1992
We heard today from the printer that they have received the camera
copy for TUGboat 13 #1. The expected mailing date is May 12.
Attached is the table of contents for this issue.
-- bb
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Contents, TUGboat 13, No. 1, April 1992
General Delivery
Malcolm Clark Prez says 5
Nelson H. F. Beebe President's introduction 6
Barbara Beeton Editorial comments 10
Samuel B. Whidden, 1930--1991 11
Software
Graham Asher Inside Type & Set 13
Philology
Claudio Beccari Computer Aided Hyphenation for
Italian and Modern Latin 23
Fonts
Sebastian Rahtz Invisibility using virtual fonts 34
Toby Thain Packing Metafonts into PostScript 36
C. Mylonas and R. Whitney
Modern Greek with adjunct fonts 39
Frank Mittelbach Comments on ``Filenames for Fonts''
(\TUGboat 11 #4) 51
Output Devices
TUG DVI Driver Standards Committee
DVI driver standard, level 0 54
Resources
Victor Eijkhout New books on TeX 57
Nico Poppelier New books on LaTeX 58
Questions
Alan Hoenig Just plain Q & A:
partitioned matrices and doublespacing 60
Tutorials
L. Siebenmann Elementary text processing and parsing
in \TeX -- the appreciation of tokens 62
Macros
Victor Eijkhout The bag of tricks 74
Victor Eijkhout Erratum: Oral TeX (TUGboat 12 #2,
pp. 272-276) 75
Jonathan Fine Some basic control macros for TeX 75
Victor Eijkhout and Ron Sommeling
Self-replicating macros 84
Piet Tutelaers A font and a style for typesetting chess
using LaTeX or TeX 85
Kees van der Laan Tower of Hanoi, revisited 91
LaTeX
Jackie Damrau The LaTeX column 94
Harold Thimbleby Erratum: ``See also'' indexing with
Makeindex (TUGboat 12 #2, p. 290) 95
Frank Mittelbach and Chris Rowley
LaTeX 2.09 --> LaTeX3 96
Abstracts
Cahiers GUTenberg #9 and #10-11 101
News & Announcements
Calendar 106
EuroTeX'92, Prague, 14--18 September 1992 107
Late-Breaking News
Barbara Beeton Production notes 108
Coming next issue 109
TUG Business
Institutional members 110
Forms
TUG membership application 112
Advertisements
Index of advertisers 126
TeX consulting and production services 127
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 10:59:39 +0700
From: Jiri Zlatuska <ZLATUSKA%earn.cspuni12@uk.ac.earn-relay>
Subject: EuroTeX 92 call for papers reminder
On behalf of the EuroTeX 92 (Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 14--18)
organizers, I would like to remind you the 2-page abstract submittion
deadline *** May 1, 1992 ***
The e-mail address for sending the abstracts is
'zlatuska@cspuni12.bitnet'
We would especially like to solicitate papers related to future of TeX,
national variants and standardization, non-standard applications, and
the use of TeX for small or newly emerging companies.
Papers on any other topic related to TeX are welcome, as well.
We hope that the first EuroTeX to be held in the former 'Eastern' part
of Europe will provide important possibility for meeting new colleagues
and enthusiasts working with TeX/LaTeX/AMSTeX/..., and having become
addicts to it, as well as people wanting to learn more about it's use
both within and outside the academia.
The success of the meeting depends on the papers from you, so please if
you have anything worth communicating to your coleagues at this kind of
meeting, please DO SUBMIT, and contribute to the success of this event.
Ask also you colleagues around you in case they missed the announcement.
Besides of its TeXnical contents, the organizing committee is making
their best for arranging interesting stay in the old city of Prague, on
financial terms suitable even for very low budget. You wouldn't be able to
come to Prague as turists for the extremely low price prepared
by the organizers within the premises of Charles University, the oldest
university in Central Europe.
Once again, please do consider submitting you contribution (abstracts by
May 1, or contact me if you have problems with meeting this deadline).
You can contribute both to the success of EuroTeX 92, and to the success
of TeX in our part of the world.
Jiri Zlatuska
Institute of Computer Science, U of Brno, CS
============== The original conference announcement follows below =============
X-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 92 12:57:59 CET
X-From: Jiri Vesely <JVESELY@CSPGUK11>
Subject: EuroTeX 92 announcement
Dear TeXfriends,
EuroTeX 92 is organized by CSTUG in collaboration with
Charles University and Czech Technical University under the
auspices of both Rectors. It takes place in Prague on
14 September 1992 --- 18 September 1992.
(Please, make a note in your diary.) As standard
accommodation we offer a relatively modern student hostel
Kajetanka. We plan to organize for every morning the
transfer by bus to Czech Technical University where the
programme will be held (it is within some 25 minutes walk
from Kajetanka). Lunch and dinner will be served at the
conference site.
We intend to arrange an opening party on Monday evening,
a concert in a historical hall typical of Prague on 16
September 1992, and some other events. To those who are
coming during Monday morning we would like to offer
a sightseeing tour on Monday afternoon. To keep things
within everybody's budget, we offer the main programme as
a package: whole programme from Monday to Friday morning
(accommodation in double rooms, full pension from Tuesday to
Thursday, opening party on Monday evening, concert,
breakfast on Friday, conference fee and proceedings) for
about 300 DM. Those who would prefer a single room should
pay extra 60 DM. (Payment details, account numbers, etc.,
will be sent to you later.) For accompanying persons,
a special programme will be organized including visits to
galleries, places of interest, etc. For *additional* 50 DM
a day, a limited number of participants may stay on till
Sunday (one or two days more) either for tutorials or just
to enjoy meeting friends and good beer in some of the pubs
Good Soldier Svejk would visit.
Currency exchange rates: 1 DM is about 18 CSK (Czechoslovak krown),
USD 1 is about 28 CSK
You can exchange within Czechoslovakia without any problem/obligation,
no visa is required for most countries (all of Europe and Nothern America)
Why come to EuroTeX 92 ? Except for invited talks of leading
specialists you will have a chance to listen lectures on
different TeX applications and meet TeX friends from many
countries. The meeting is the first offering really
extensive contacts with people from former East European
countries ("from behind the iron curtain" -- can you still
remember that?). It takes place in the Golden Heart of
Europe -- Prague, one of the nicest capitals in Europe. You
can visit it for a surprisingly low price: since we would
like to make EuroTeX 92 in Prague accessible to the majority
of TeXfans from all over Europe, we arrange it on a modest
but good level.
We would like to encourage people to submit papers for
EuroTeX 92. Suggested topics of special interest include the
following themes:
- -- Quo vadis, TeX?
- -- National versions and standardization
- -- Non-standard applications
- -- The use of TeX for small/newly emerging enterprises
The above list is by no means complete, and interesting
contributions relevant to TeX are sought.
Important dates for submitting paper proposals:
- -- 1 May 1992: two-page (max.) abstract to be sent to the
address of the Programme Committee chairman:
Jiri Zlatuska
Masaryk University
Buresova 20
601 77 Brno
Czechoslovakia
e-mail: zlatuska@cspuni12.bitnet
- -- 1 June 1992: acceptance/rejection announcement to the
author
- -- 10 July camera-ready papers due to arrive to the
Programme Committee chairman
EuroTeX 92 Programme Committee:
Peter Abbott Jacques Andre
Jana Chlebikova Bernard Gaulle
Karel Horak Joachim Lammarsche
Erich Neuwirth Petr Novak
Stefan Porubsky Phillip Taylor
Jiri Vesely Jiri Zlatuska
Those who are interested in taking part are kindly asked to
fill in the following form and send it via e-mail to the
address:
eurotex at cspguk11.bitnet
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 92 10:42:16 +0000
From: ucgadkw@uk.ac.ucl (Dominik Wujastyk)
Subject: ukhyphen.tex for first public distribution
% File: ukhyphen.tex
% TeX hyphenation patterns for UK English [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!]
% Version 1.0. Released 17 April 1992.
%
% Created by Dominik Wujastyk and Graham Toal using Frank Liang's PATGEN 1.0.
% Like the US patterns, these UK patterns correctly hyphenate about 90% of
% the words in the input list, and produce no hyphens not in the list
% (see TeXbook pp. 451--2).
%
% These patterns are based on a file of 114925 British-hyphenated words
% generously made available to Dominik Wujastyk by Oxford University Press.
% This list of words is copyright to the OUP and may not be redistributed.
% The hyphenation break points in the words in the abovementioned file is
% also copyright to the OUP.
%
% We are very grateful to Oxford University Press for allowing us to use
% their list of hyphenated words to produce the following TeX hyphenation
% patterns. This file of hyphenation patterns may be freely distributed.
%
% These patterns require a value of about 14000 for TeX's pattern memory size.
%
{ The UK English hyphenation patterns are stored in the UK TeX Archive in
[tex-archive.langs.english]ukhyphen.tex
--Ed.}
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 16:27:34 -0600
From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@edu.SHSU>
Subject: TR2LATEX version 2.2 on FILESERV/Niord
In <krischan.704389257@veilchen> (comp.text.tex, 27 Apr 92 15:40:57 GMT),
krischan@veilchen.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Engel) posted:
> This is the new version 2.2 of the troff to LaTeX converter tr2latex. It
> is a compressed tar archive. Follow steps 1 through 6 to unpack it.
Christian's obviously been busy! I caught this while going through the
ctt-Digest receipts and it has been removed from that distribution (and so
noted). The changes between version 2.2 and 2.1 (announced and installed
last week) are listed as follows:
# Revision 2.2 1992/04/27 15:13:51 Christian_Engel
# - Fixed a bug in flip_twice I have brought in with revision 1.02 but didn't
# notice earlier. It lead to wrong translation of nested flipping math
# commands like ``a under hat''.
# Bug reported by Richard Walker <richard@cs.anu.edu.au>.
# - Some modifications to calm down some strange warnings on strange
# compilers reported from the net
# - Fixed bug in getopts: now input of stdin by pure command line argument `-'
# works properly.
# - Fixed bug in main: multiple command line arguments work properly now.
To retrieve the new version, include the command:
SENDME TR2LATEX
in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).
For anonymous ftp users of Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8), a compressed U*ix
tar file, a VMS backup saveset, and a DOS-compatible ZIP file reside in the
directory [.TR2LATEX.FTP] as TR2LATEX-2_2.TAR_Z, *.BCK, and *.ZIP,
respectively.
Regards, George
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Date: 29 Apr 92 14:08:52 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: tr2latex in UK TeX Archive
I have put the latest (April 27th, 2.2) version of tr2latex (troff to
LaTeX converter) into
[tex-archive.utils.tr2latex]
in the UK TeX Archive.
Sebastian
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Date: 01 May 92 07:59:10 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: PStricks package in UK TeX Archive
I have put a copy of Timothy van Zandt's `pstricks' package in the UK
TeX Archive (Internet tex.ac.uk [134.151.40.18], JANET uk.ac.tex) in
[tex-archive.pstricks]
I append the readme file
Sebastian Rahtz
***********************************************************************
**** "readme" file for pstricks package, v0.9, 92/04/28 ****
***********************************************************************
COPYRIGHT 1992, by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.EDU
DESCRIPTION:
pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible
with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX , LaTeX and AmS-LaTeX.
Included are macros for color, graphics, rotation and overlays. It has
several special features:
* There is a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with
a flexible interface and with color support. All lines and outlines
can be solid, dotted or dashed. Lines and curves can have arrowheads,
t-bars, brackets or circles on the ends. Closed regions can be filled
with solid colors, lines or crosshatch.
* With nested rotations, you can specify rotations with respect to
the coordinate system before the previous rotations. For example,
this lets you put a piece of text right side up even though it
is inside a rotated structure.
* There is "\dbox" which lets you use things analogous to \hfill and
\hrulefill, but in any direction.
* There is a powerful loop macro that is useful for making pictures.
* There are macros for coloring or shading the cells of tables.
* There are rotation macros that create a box with the appropriate
dimensions, for any angle of rotation.
FILES:
Inputs:
pstricks.tex : The main macro file.
pstricks.sty : The same as pstricks.tex, but the .sty extension.
pstricks.con : The configuration file for pstricks.tex.
Documentation:
pst-user.ps : User's Guide.
pst-code.dvi : Documented Code.
Sources:
pstricks.doc : Documentation and code for pstricks.tex.
pst-code.tex : For typesetting pstricks.doc.
pst-user.tex : User's Guide.
tvz-hax.sty : Macros for printing documentation.
Other:
pstricks.pro : A PostScript prologue (optional).
pst-read.me : This file.
GETTING STARTED:
1. Put the first three files in a directory where your TeX looks
for inputs.
2. Put the file pstricks.pro where you dvi-to-ps driver looks for
header files, if it supports such inclusion. E.g., dvips might
look in /usr/lib/tex/ps. You can also use pstricks.tex without
the header file. However, using the header file is more efficient.
3. Print pst-user.ps, which is the User's Guide for pstricks.tex.
(Printing pst-code.dvi, which is the documented code and which
is very long, is optional.)
4. Follow the instructions in the configuration file, pstricks.con.
You probably do not have to change anything if you are using
Rokicki's dvips, although you still have to decide whether or not
to use the header file.
PROBLEMS PRINTING THE DOCUMENTATION
pst-user.ps and pst-code.dvi are in 2-up format, with a rule dividing
the pages. This rule is reported to cause problems when using dvips
and an HP LaserJet III, with HP's PostScript cartridge (???). If this
affects you, rerun the documentation sources (pst-user.tex and/or
pst-code.tex) without the \twoup command or with \twoupHPIIIPS. See the
source files for details.
PATCH FOR SUN'S PAGEVIEW:
Sun's Pageview, with OpenWindows 2.0, does integer arithmetic. To
accomodate this, put the line
\def\sunpatch{}
at the beginning of the configuration file pstricks.con or before
inputting pstricks.tex. LaTeX users can put this line before
the \documentstyle command. This is marginally detrimental for
other PostScript interpreters.
SOURCES:
The file pstricks.doc files contains the documentation and code, using
Frank Mittelbach's doc system. The documentation for pstricks.tex
can be typeset by running LaTeX on pst-user.tex and pst-code.tex.
pstricks.tex can be obtained by running LaTeX on Mittelbach's docstrip.tex,
and giving the name pstricks when prompted for the input file. However,
there is no need to do either of these things since the typeset
documentation and stripped style files are distributed with the
pstricks package.
PSTricks is a large package. This should not be a problem on most
systems, but if you need to divide the package, see the first section
of the Documented Code.
If you make changes to pstricks.tex, you may need to generate a new
PostScript header file. See the configuration file for instructions.
PSTRICKS.TEX AND SEMINAR.STY
The PSTricks package grew out of macros originally written for the
Seminar package. seminar.sty is a LaTeX style for slides and notes.
seminar.sty, combined with pstricks.tex and your favorite macros for
inclusion of EPS files make a complete TeX presentation software package.
PSTricks v0.9 works with seminar.sty version 0.93, and maybe later
versions as well. You can probably get the Seminar package from wherever
you got PSTricks (but not before May 5, 1992).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
pstricks.tex borrows some algorithms from PiCTeX, by Michael Wichura.
The author is thankful to Frank Mittelbach for his documentation system.
COPYING:
Copying of part or all of any file in the pstricks package
is allowed under the following conditions only:
(1) You may freely distribute unchanged copies of the files. Please
include the documentation when you do so.
(2) You may modify a renamed copy of any file, but only for personal
use or use within an organization.
(3) You may copy fragments from the files, for personal use or for use
in a macro package for distribution, as long as credit is given
where credit is due.
You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of
these files or modified versions or fragments thereof, except for
a nominal charge for copying etc.
BUGS:
Too many to list, and who knows what they are anyway. These files are all
preliminary and unstable. Not responsible for head injuries.
Please report bugs, enhancements and other comments, especially positive
or negative experiences with DVI-to-PS converters and previewers, to
Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.edu.
Thanks.
CHANGES:
Policy: These macros are preliminary, but it is unlikely that there will
be future incompatible changes to the user interface.
v.9: Much internal code was changed, and additional features were added.
The syntax of \dline has changed several times. With \multido,
the backslash should now be included with variable names in the
variable declarations. See the User's Guide for details.
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Date: 01 May 92 08:44:10 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: OzTeX 1.42 in uk tex archive
I have placed a copy of OzTeX 1.42 in
[tex-archive.mac.oztex142]
note that this is for people who already have .PK files (available
from earlier releases of OzTeX)
I'm sorry, I have no idea what the changes from 1.141 to 1.42 are!
{ See Peter's message below --Ed.}
Sebastian
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Date: 01 May 92 09:10:57 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: harvard styles updated in UK TeX Archive
I have updated the copies of the LaTeX style files and BibTeX styles
in
[tex-archive.latex.contrib.harvard]
to current versions from the author (corrections to harvard.sty to
cope with NFSS were noted, for instance).
Sebastian Rahtz
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 01 May 92 10:24:51
From: CHAA006@uk.ac.tex
Subject: GhostScript V2.4.1 now available
GhostScript V2.4.1 is now available in the TeX archive:
Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
- --------
Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.G-SCRIPT.GS-241]
GS-241.ZIP;1 7031/7032 1-MAY-1992 10:17:30.33
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Date: Fri, 01 May 92 12:20:48 -0100
From: p.abbott@uk.ac.aston
Subject: OzTeX V1.42 changes
Here are the changes
Changes to OzTeX 1.41
=====================
A few problems have been fixed.
\special images will now be previewed at the correct size on monitors
with resolutions other than 72dpi (a scaling bug caused the bitmaps
to appear too small). The printed images will also be the correct size.
The total size of the application stack is guaranteed to be >= 16,000
bytes.
This should avoid any possibility of a stack overflow bomb on older Macs.
The minimum application memory has been bumped up from 870K to 880K.
The "About Box" now displays the following statistics:
- the available amount of stack space (the initial value should never
change).
- the available amount of heap memory.
- the largest contiguous amount of heap memory.
All numbers are in bytes.
The latest versions of BoxedEPS.* have been included.
If the BoundingBox comment in an EPSF file is followed by real numbers
then
OzTeX silently truncates them.
OzTeX tolerates small differences in the size of an EPSF file's
BoundingBox
and its corresponding PICT.
A small change has been made to try and avoid a problem finding OzTeX's
PDEF
resource.
A few minor changes have been made to the OzTeX User Guide; if you
already
have version 1.41 then it isn't worth printing off a new copy.
Tel 44 (0)21 359 5492 direct
FAX 44 (0)21 359 6158
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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 23:10:52 +0000
From: UK TeX Archive Server <TeXserver@uk.ac.tex>
Subject: Aston TeX mail server log analysis at 30-APR-1992 23:10:42.49
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