UKTeX Digest Wednesday, 3 Jun 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 19
``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}:
LaTeX query
Re: LaTeX query
Re: Re: Spelling checkers
Re: Spelling checkers
Re: page number on which an article ends?
page number on which an article ends?
Re: OzTeX 1.4.2
Current version of PLAIN.TEX in the archive ?
Re: KD (K.J. Dryllerakis) Greek LaTeX and fonts
Importing Files
Re: Importing Graphics Files
OzTeX query
Re: OzTeX query
How does one acquire OzTex?
document styles
Re: document styles
Creating format files on HP
Formatting Smalltalk Source Code
{Announcements}:
Future developments of TeX
modes.mf 0.10 available
sauter parameter files version 1.3 available
web2c 5.851c available
{Archive News}:
`seminar' package release
new version of rotating package in UK TeX Archive
dvips5.487 in archive
updates in uk tex archive
emtex bonus disks in uk tex archive
upgrades to Unix Web2c package, eplain, sauter, lucida
modes.mf version 1.10
Administrivia:
Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex
Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests:
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E D I T O R ' S N O T E
Apologies for the non-appearance of UKTeX during my absence
in the USA on my honeymoon during the last three weeks.
Now that I'm back (sigh), this is an extra issue to help
clear the backlog of articles.
--Ed.
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Date: Sat, 02 May 92 16:33:28 +0700
From: rsm@castle.ed.ac.uk
Subject: LaTeX query
I hear from Dave Ingles at lancs.pdsoft that Aston carries a Latex archive.
I have succeeded in installing the basic EMTEX version for the IBM PC
on my personal machine but I also need drivers such as DVIPS and any
other executable which will allow me to include the various graphics
files that I require for my thesis. I would be gratefull if you could
inform me of the method of gaining ac cess to the IBM PC LATEX archive
and any usefull utilities that I may require for it.
Yours
STEVE MOWBRAY
(rsm@ed.ee or rsm@ed.castle)
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Date: 11 May 92 10:19:30 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: LaTeX query
> I have succeeded in installing the basic EMTEX version for the IBM
> PC on my personal machine but I also need drivers such as DVIPS and
> any other executable which will allow me to include the various
> graphics files that I require for my thesis. I would be gratefull
> if you could inform me of the method of gaining access to the IBM
> PC LATEX archive and any usefull utilities that I may require for
please use JANET file transfer or Internet-style ftp to, respectively,
uk.ac.tex or tex.ac.uk (134.151.40.18), and fetch material from Aston.
You can fetch a top level directory by asking for 00directory.list, or
you can log in interactively (as user public, password public) and
browse around.
I recommend you pick up the contents of
[TEX-ARCHIVE.DRIVERS.DVI2PS.DVIPS] (this is a VMS machine), and
proceed from there. If you dont have a C compiler, you will find DOS
executables in the [.pc] subdirectory, in a boo-encoded ZIP archive.
what you need for graphics files depends on how you generate them. if
you can convert them to encapsulated PostScript, that would be best.
the documentation for dvips describes how to pull them in.
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: Fri, 08 May 92 11:30:34 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Re: Re: Spelling checkers
Sebastian writes:
> `ispell' does an excellent job under Unix, including integration with
> emacs. it has British dictionaries in recent versions
Any idea where I can get British dictionaries from? But I was really
looking for a `batch' system rather than a word-at-a-time one; or can
I run ispell in batch mode?
..Adrian
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Date: 12 May 92 10:44:00 +0000
From: Ian Dunkin <imd1707@uk.co.ggr.uk0x08>
Subject: Re: Spelling checkers
> Has anyone out there a spelling checker, preferably compatible to the
> Unix one, that does what I need?
If you're prepared to part with (a small amount of) money there's a very
nice spelling checker put out by the UK Atomic Energy Authority. It
copes sensibly with US and/or UK spellings, has TeX/LaTeX dictionaries
(so you can check and correct spelling in raw TeX source), and much much
more. I use it on Prime/Primos, Unix, and Vax/VMS systems and like it a
lot. And I have no involvment with the UKAEA.
The chap to speak to is..
Mr Timothy Field,
Customer Services Manager,
CFDS, Building 8,
Harwell Laboratory,
Oxon OX11 0RA,
United Kingdom.
Tel (+44) 0235-432956
Fax (+44) 0235-436671
Note, though, that it is *not* compatible with Unix spell.. in the same
way that fillet is not compatible with spam.
I.
- -
Ian Dunkin, GGR.
=
imd1707@uk0x08.ggr.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 08 May 92 12:10:41 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Re: page number on which an article ends?
Rainer writes:
> What about putting a \label on the last page of an article, and using
> \pageref to access the page number?
Stupid me! Of course it does; so the problem reduces to automagically
generating unique \labels.
The attached (plain-in-La)TeX code defines an {article} environment
that fits the bill. The first page of the {article} environment is
referred to by
\pageref{bart:<unique sequence number>}
and the last page of the corresponding article by
\pageref{eart:<unique sequence number>}.
There is probably a more elegant way of doing this; I leave it as an
exercise for the interested reader. :-}
\documentstyle{article}
\newcount\beginseccounter \beginseccounter=0
\def\beginsection{\global\advance\beginseccounter by 1\relax
\protect\label{bart:\number\beginseccounter}}
\newcount\endseccounter \endseccounter=0
\def\endsection{\global\advance\endseccounter by 1\relax
\protect\label{eart:\number\endseccounter}}
\newenvironment{article}{\beginsection}{\endsection}
\begin{document}
\section{First section}
\begin{article}
Words, words, and more words.
\end{article}
\newpage
\section{Second section}
\begin{article}
This section appears on pages \pageref{bart:2}--\pageref{eart:2}.
The first section was on pages \pageref{bart:1}--\pageref{eart:1}.
\end{article}
\end{document}
Dr Adrian F. Clark JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex
INTERNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk FAX: (+44) 206-872900
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex@ac.uk PHONE: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
Dept ESE, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, C04 3SQ, UK.
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Date: Sat, 09 May 92 13:48:31 +0100
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche%no.unit.imf@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: page number on which an article ends?
Rainer says
Adrian writes:
The first page of an article is obviously pretty easy: it's the
current page number; but what about the LAST page of an article? I
presume I'll have to do it by writing something into the AUX file; but
is there any machinery already inside LaTeX to make this easier?
What about putting a \label on the last page of an article, and using
\pageref to access the page number?
Now that is fine for a one-shot case, but if you are writing a style
that regularly needs this feature, below is a solution that automates
this suggestion.
\documentstyle{article}
\makeatletter
\let\lp@enddocument\enddocument
\def\enddocument{\label{LastPage}\lp@enddocument}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Now you can just say ``this document ends on page
\pageref{LastPage}''.
I used to be frustrated by the apparent lack of hooks in LaTeX. But
it is clear that using the above technique you can insert you own in
many different places.
- - Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no> +47-7-593525
Division of Mathematical Sciences
The Norwegian Institute of Technology
N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY
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Date: Sun, 10 May 92 14:34:58 +0000
From: sw@uk.co.network-analysis-ltd
Subject: Re: OzTeX 1.4.2
> > Have any comments been received about this file? I've tried to dehex it
> > several times now with fresh copies ftp'ed from the archive and every time
> > I get a disk error with the message "Unexpected EOF" -- if I remember this
> > was the problm with the 1.4 distribution. Inputs/Formats are okay.
The last line appaers to be missing (proper HQX files have a trailing
":"). If you ignore the error when unhexing the file and try to
extract files from the archive, you will find that the SigmaEdit
folder is corrupt. But that's OK since you kept your copy from 1.4.1,
didn't you?
The remaining files in the Aston OzTeX directory still have file
attributes "fixed length sequential". However, I've discovered that
you can transfer them as binary files to a Unix system because they
appear to have Unix EOL delimiters in them (ie LFs).
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited
178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK
uucp: ...!uknet!nan!sw Phone: (+44) 203 419996
AppleLink: NAN.LTD Internet: sw@network-analysis-ltd.co.uk
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Date: Mon, 11 May 92 11:54:47 +0700
From: Peter Eckel 11-May-1992 1151
<eckel%com.dec.enet.frocky@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Current version of PLAIN.TEX in the archive ?
Hello,
In the announcements of the latest LATEX updates both in TeXhax and UKTeX
Rainer Schoepf mentiones that Don Knuth updated PLAIN.TEX recently.
Is the version 3.0 of PLAIN.TEX that I found in the Aston archive this updated
version, or where can I find it ? I can't tell it looking at the file, because
there is only the version number but no revision date.
Kind regards, Peter
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Date: 11 May 92 09:05:42 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: KD (K.J. Dryllerakis) Greek LaTeX and fonts
Goossens Michel <GOOSSENS%earn.cernvm@uk.ac.earn-relay> writes:
>
> I recently tried to install the KD Greek system (developed by K.J.
> Dryllerakis of Imperial College, UK), but the font directory MFINPUT,
> referred to in the READ.ME file and needed to use his system, which
> refers to those fonts is not present on the archive, while the other
restored today, with many apologies.
Sebastian
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Date: Tue, 12 May 92 13:24:01 +0000
From: "D." Jenkins <apx050@uk.ac.cov.cck>
Subject: Importing Files
Can advise me as to whether it is possible to import graphics files such
as Harvard Graphics charts or Statgraphics charts into LaTex?
If this is possible can you let me know how.
Thanks in advance
David Jenkins
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Date: 12 May 92 12:50:58 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Importing Graphics Files
D. Jenkins <apx050@uk.ac.coventry.cck> writes:
>
> Are you able to advise as to whether or not it is possible to import
> graphics files such as Harvard Graphics charts or Statgraphics charts.
>
it depends on what driver you are using to print TeX files. without
knowing that, its not possible to advise you
s
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Date: Tue, 12 May 92 14:12:16 +0000
From: Peter Abbott <p.abbott@uk.ac.aston>
Subject: OzTeX query
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I have made several attempts to download
the OzTeX 1.42 hqx file (OZTEX142.SIT_HQX)
and I think your file at ASTON is corrupt!
(other things down-load correctly can
be unbinhexed and unstuffed - that file produces
an error in stuffit and produces a corrupted
stuffit directory)
regards
derek andrews
p.s. what chance a MegaOzTeX? - I do a lot of work
with TeX and need a very very big Tex?
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Date: 12 May 92 13:13:26 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: OzTeX query
> I have made several attempts to download
> the OzTeX 1.42 hqx file (OZTEX142.SIT_HQX)
> and I think your file at ASTON is corrupt!
> (other things down-load correctly can
> be unbinhexed and unstuffed - that file produces
> an error in stuffit and produces a corrupted
> stuffit directory)
i hate this cranky Mac sit/hqx stuff and even crankier VMS file formats! I
have just tried a new approach, downloading from Chicago direct to
Aston. try this one and see if it works...
> p.s. what chance a MegaOzTeX? - I do a lot of work
> with TeX and need a very very big Tex?
one is tempted to say `buy a real computer' but that would be unfair.
how big is big? whats the application that needs "very very big"?
sebastian
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Date: Tue, 12 May 92 15:40:29 +0000
From: A.J.George Nurser <agn@uk.ac.nerc-southampton.unixb>
Subject: How does one acquire OzTex?
I would like to acquire the Latex implementation for the MacIntosh, OzTex.
I am at a UNIX site of networked SUN's, with MAcs used as terminals and
for word processing. The SUN network is on JANET, so I am hoping to be able
to bring OzTex from the Aston archive across onto the SUNs and then ftp it onto
the Mac.
1)Is this possible/sensible? - we can do anonymous ftp's, hhcp's but are not ye
t
on JIPS.
2)What are the files that we would need to copy from the TEx archive?
3)Which file explains how the Mac implementation works?
Sorry to bother you with these rather elementary questions.
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Date: Wed, 13 May 92 15:53:21 +0000
From: HUNT TJ MR <ee01th@uk.ac.surrey>
Subject: document styles
I have to do a write a short document for an experiment and need
(i.e. have been asked by the supervisor) to have double line
spacing. That's the only difference from the article style that I
need. How can I do it?
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Date: 14 May 92 07:04:52 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: document styles
HUNT TJ MR <ee01th@uk.ac.surrey> writes:
> I have to do a write a short document for an experiment and need
> (i.e. have been asked by the supervisor) to have double line
> spacing. That's the only difference from the article style that I
> need. How can I do it?
style option `doublespace' will do what you want. from uk.ac.tex in
[tex-archive.latex.contrib]
sebastian
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Date: Wed, 13 May 92 14:57:00 +0000
From: "Ian Ellery " <S121@uk.ac.east-anglia.cpc865>
Subject: Creating format files on HP
Someone at UEA is trying to compile TeX etc on an HP Un*x machine.
Follwing a sucessful 'make', then 'make install' he tried to
'make formats'. This is the part that uses initex to create the
.fmt files. However, nothing happens - he ends up seemingly in
TeX, with a * prompt, but with no response:
- ---------------------------------------------
# make formats
This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3 (INITEX)
(/usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/plain.tex)
*
- ----------------------------------------------
Trying to dump manually fails as does \bye or anything. Eventually
terminate with a ^C.
- ------------------------------------------------
*\dump
*\bye
*
! Emergency stop.
<*> \bye
No pages of output.
Transcript written on plain.log.
- --------------------------------------------------
The file /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs/plain.tex exists and seems OK. I did
the same installation on a SUN and had no problems. On the SUN, after the
plain.tex filename, a lot of information messages were displayed, so
it seems as if plain.tex is not being read - but why not?
Any help gratefully received,
Ian Ellery, i.ellery@uea
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Date: Thu, 14 May 92 23:04:23 +0000
From: Barry Prescott <bp@uk.ac.hull.cs>
Subject: Formatting Smalltalk Source Code
I want to format smalltalk protocol that I have hacked out of a
smalltalk file-out (by removing the actual code). E.g.:
- ----
addSubGrid
"ADDS A SUBGRID OF CLASS 'Grid' -- SEE addSubGrid:"
addSubGrid: gridClass
"PUTS A SUBGRID INTO THIS COMPARTMENT. INQUIRES TO 4 BOUNDARY LINES OF
THIS COMPARTMENT AND SUBTRACTS SO THAT TOP LEFT IS (0,0). FOUR NEW LINES ARE C
REATED AND A NEW COMPARTMENT TO OCCUPY THE SPACE BETWEEN. RETURN THE NEW SUBGRI
D."
boundary: movingLine pushed: amount
"TELL RECEIVER THAT ONE OF ITS BOUNDARIES *HAS* PUSHED BY amount. CONTI
NUE THE MOTION "
- ----
Please forgive the fact that some of the lines are > 80 chars long.
That's what smalltalk gives and I am not going to try to fight it by
manual editing. I'd rather TeX break the lines for me. I wish to do
the minimum of manual editing as possible because the code is rather
long.
I'd like a LaTeX environment that will take one (or all?) of these
smalltalk method `headers' and format it.
The form of the source is a sequence of message headers, separated by
blank lines, where each message header is:
a) a unary message selector e.g. "addSubGrid", with no argument.
OR
b) a keyword selector which has `n' selector sub parts and `n'
arguments in the form of
"selectorSubPart1: argument1: ... selectorSubPartn: argumentn:"
FOLLOWED BY
a comment which may contain characters that are special to TeX (and
which by a lucky quirk of my Smalltalk won't contain an exclamation
mark (bang) (so I can use that for \verb! !).
I wish the environment/macro will intelligently mark-up the code for
me in the form:
{\tt boundary:} {\em movingLine\/} {\tt pushed:} {\em amount\/} \\
\verb(ButWithLineBreaking)! "TELL RECEIVER THAT ONE OF ITS BOUNDARIES *HAS*
PUSHED BY amount. CONTINUE THE MOTION "!
Would some kind soul help me please?
Thanks
Barry
- --
Barry Prescott, Hypermedia Systems Group, Dept. of Computer Science,
INTERNET: bp@cs.hull.ac.uk, ehgabp2@uts.mcc.ac.uk, | The University,
bprescot@nyx.cs.du.edu Phone: +44 482 465016 | Hull, HU6 7RX,
UUCP: ..!ukc!hu-cs!bp Fax: +44 482 466666 | United Kingdom
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Date: Wed, 13 May 92 11:08:09 +0100
From: Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.uknet-relay
Subject: Future developments of TeX
What is to come after TeX?
--------------------------
For quite a while people have been discussing the question of what is
to come after TeX---if there can be something at all. To collect ideas
and to guide these ideas into one effort the german speaking TeX
user's group DANTE e.V. decided to start a project for future
developments of TeX. To avoid misunderstandings right from the
beginning: This is not meant to be a private enterprise or even
something to be led by the germans or even europeans. It is meant as a
cooperation of all those who are interested in such a project. Every
one is invited to contribute ideas and demands and to work in this
direction. It is planned, but not fixed, to have three stages:
1. stage: What should be changed?
2. stage: How can this be realised?
3. stage: Realisation.
At the annual meeting of DANTE e.V. at Hamburg some weeks ago the
project was discussed and officially started by Joachim Lammarsch, the
president of DANTE e.V. He asked me to serve as the technical
co-ordinator of the project, to which I agreed. The name of the
project is NTS, for New Typesetting System. (You might find it funny
to look at the last three words of the very first line in the TeXbook
by Donald E. Knuth. Thanks to Kresten Krab Thorup for pointing this
out to me.)
As a first action, and to open the discussion, we set up a mailing
list at Heidelberg.
To subscribe, send a message to
LISTSERV@VM.URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.De
containing
SUBSCRIBE NTS-L <your name goes here>
To sign off the list, send a message to
LISTSERV@VM.URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.De
containing
UNSUBSCRIBE NTS-L
Messages to go via the list have to be addressed to
NTS-L@VM.URZ.Uni-Heidelberg.De
In a short time, I will send around a somewhat longer message that
contains some ideas, to serve as a starting point in the discussion.
Rainer Sch\"opf
Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de
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Date: Thu, 14 May 92 13:59:45 -0500
From: karl <karl@edu.umb.cs>
Subject: modes.mf 0.10 available
I have released version 0.10 of modes.mf. You can get it by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/modes.mf
You can also get it (soon) by email from George Greenwade's (thanks,
George!) file server if you cannot ftp: mail fileserv@shsu.edu with a
body of `sendme modes'. It is about 46K.
This file is a collection of Metafont mode_def's. It also makes common
definitions for write-white printers and `special' information.
This version has only minor fixes:
* `=' is used in special output instead of ` := ', to conserve space
* new modes for the CG 9600 and Varityper 4300
If you have mode_def's which are not listed below, or corrections to the
existing ones, please send them to me.
karl@cs.umb.edu
mode_def AgfaFourZeroZero = % AGFA 400PS
mode_def amiga = % Commodore Amiga
mode_def AtariNineFive = % Atari 95dpi previewer
mode_def AtariNineSix = % Atari 96x96 previewer
mode_def AtariSLMEightZeroFour = % Atari ST SLM 804 printer
mode_def AtariSMOneTwoFour = % Atari ST SM 124 screen
mode_def aps = % Autologic APS-Micro5
mode_def ApsSixHi = % Autologic APS-Micro6
mode_def bitgraph = % BBN Bitgraph at 118dpi
mode_def boise = % HP 2680A
mode_def CanonCX = % Canon CX, SX, LBP-LX
mode_def CanonLBPTen = % e.g., Symbolics LGP-10
mode_def ChelgraphIBX = % Chelgraph IBX
mode_def CItohThreeOneZero = % CItoh 310
mode_def CItohEightFiveOneZero = % CItoh 8510A
mode_def CompugraphicEightSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 8600
mode_def CompugraphicNineSixZeroZero = % Compugraphic 9600
mode_def crs = % Alphatype CRS
mode_def DataDisc = % DataDisc
mode_def DataDiscNew = % DataDisc with special aspect ratio
mode_def dover = % Xerox Dover
mode_def epsonlo = % Epson at 120dpi
mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroMed = % Epson LQ-500, 360x180dpi
mode_def EpsonLQFiveZeroZeroLo = % Epson LQ-500, 180x180dpi
mode_def EpsonMXFX = % 9-pin Epson MX/FX family
mode_def GThreefax = % 200 x 100dpi G3fax
mode_def HPDeskJet = % HP DeskJet 500
mode_def ibm_a = % IBM 38xx (\#1)
mode_def IBMD = % IBM 38xx (\#2)
mode_def IBMFourZeroTwoNine = % IBM 4029-30, 4250
mode_def IBMFourTwoOneSix = % IBM 4216
mode_def IBMProPrinter = % IBM ProPrinter
mode_def IBMSixOneFiveFour = % IBM 6154 display
mode_def IBMSixSixSevenZero = % IBM 6670 (Sherpa)
mode_def IBMThreeOneSevenNine = % IBM 3179 screen
mode_def IBMThreeOneNineThree = % IBM 3193 screen
mode_def IBMThreeEightOneTwo = % IBM 3812
mode_def IBMThreeEightTwoZero = % IBM 3820
mode_def IBMEGA = % IBM EGA monitor
mode_def IBMVGA = % IBM VGA monitor
mode_def imagewriter = % Apple ImageWriter
mode_def laserjetlo = % HP LaserJet at 150dpi
mode_def LASevenFive = % DEC LA75
mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZeroLo = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 635dpi
mode_def LinotypeOneZeroZero = % Linotype Linotronic [13]00 at 1270dpi
mode_def LinotypeThreeZeroZeroHi = % Linotype Linotronic 300 at 2540dpi
mode_def LNZeroOne = % DEC LN01
mode_def LPSFourZero = % DEC LPS40
mode_def lview = % Sigma L-View monitor
mode_def MacMagnified = % Mac screens at magstep 1
mode_def MacTrueSize = % Mac screens at 72dpi
mode_def NEC = % NEC
mode_def NEChi = % NEC-P6 at 360x360dpi
mode_def Newgen = % Newgen 400dpi
mode_def NeXTprinter = % NeXT 400dpi
mode_def NeXTscreen = % 100dpi NeXT monitor
mode_def OCESixSevenFiveZeroPS = % OCE 6750-PS
mode_def okidata = % Okidata
mode_def OneTwoZero = % e.g., high-resolution Suns
mode_def PrintwareSevenTwoZeroIQ = % Printware 720IQ
mode_def qms = % QMS (Xerox engine)
mode_def RicohFourZeroEightZero = % e.g., the TI Omnilaser
mode_def RicohLP = % e.g., the DEC LN03
mode_def SparcPrinterBlack = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/black
mode_def SparcPrinterWhite = % Sun SPARCprinter -- write/white
mode_def StarNLOneZero = % Star NL-10
mode_def sun = % Sun and BBN Bitgraph at 85dpi
mode_def supre = % Ultre*setter at 2400dpi
mode_def toshiba = % Toshiba 13XX, EpsonLQ
mode_def ultre = % Ultre*setter at 1200dpi
mode_def VarityperFiveZeroSixZeroW = % Varitype 5060W
mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroLo = % Varityper 4300P at 1200dpi
mode_def VarityperFourThreeZeroZeroHi = % Varityper 4300P at 2400dpi
mode_def VarityperFourTwoZeroZero = % Varityper 4200 B-P
mode_def VarityperSixZeroZero = % Varityper Laser 600
mode_def VAXstation = % VAXstation monitor
mode_def XeroxEightSevenNineZero = % Xerox 8790 or 4045
mode_def XeroxFourZeroFiveZero = % Xerox 4050
mode_def XeroxNineSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 9700
mode_def XeroxThreeSevenZeroZero = % Xerox 3700
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Date: Thu, 14 May 92 14:23:08 -0500
From: karl <karl@edu.umb.cs>
Subject: sauter parameter files version 1.3 available
I've updated my packaging for Unix of John Sauter's Metafont files
to make Computer Modern fonts at any point size.
You can get version 1.3 by ftp from
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/sauter.tar.Z.
This release adds parameter files for the Glonti/Samarin Cyrillic,
contributed by Glenn Thorbe and Wayne Sullivan (wsulivan@irlearn.ucd.ie).
For all of the standard Computer Modern fonts, these files produce the
same TFM files as Knuth's sources. So it is ok to call the output from
these `cm...'.
The distribution includes an lfonts.tex for LaTeX and a MakeTeXPK for
dvips which take advantage of these fonts. You can get LaTeX from
archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]:TEX/TEX3/latex, and dvips from
labrea.stanford.edu:pub/dvips*.
Let me know if you have questions or suggestions.
karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Date: Thu, 14 May 92 20:42:56 -0500
From: karl <karl@edu.umb.cs>
Subject: web2c 5.851c available
I have released a new version of web2c, the port of the basic TeX
project web programs (TeX, Metafont, GFtoPK, etc.) to Unix. You can get
it by ftp from (at least):
(Boston) ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.26.23]:pub/tex/{web,web2c}.tar.Z
(California) ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1]:TeX/{web,web2c}.tar.Z.
Send bug reports to me.
There are no new features in this release, just bug fixes.
I've updated my modified xdvi and dvips which use the same path
searching code. They are on ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex also.
Some people have asked me about the relationship between my releases and
the Unix TeX tape available from the Northwest Computing Support Center
at the University of Washington. The answer is that my directory
`src-5.851<version>/' which the tar files unpack into becomes the
directory `TeX3.141/' on the tape; there are not two diverging ports.
The UW tape also includes all the fonts, macros, DVI drivers, and other
good stuff that you need to have a working TeX system. The Northwest
Computing Support Center is supported only by the revenues from the
preparation and distribution of tapes, and is required to be fully
self-supporting. It receives no support from the University of
Washington. I urge you to order a tape if you can afford it, so that
NWCSC can continue to afford to organize and distribute UnixTeX. Send
email to elizabeth@u.washington.edu for the details.
karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write league@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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Date: 11 May 92 14:59:54 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: `seminar' package release
I have placed Timonthy van Zandt's seminar package in the UK TeX
Archive in
[tex-archive.latex.styles.contrib.seminar]
The readme file follows. Please treat this as experimental still for
the present (ie dont get it unless you are prepared to spend some time
getting into it.). Timothy will no doubt announce any release he
considers *completely* reliable! From now on, I will attempt to keep
the UK TeX Archive copy up to date.
Sebastian Rahtz
***********************************************************************
**** "readme" file for seminar.sty package, v0.92, 92/05/08 ****
***********************************************************************
COPYRIGHT 1992, by Timothy Van Zandt, tvz@Princeton.EDU
DESCRIPTION:
seminar.sty is a LaTeX document style for typesetting slides or
transparencies, and accompanying notes. It has many advantages over
SliTeX. Here are some of the style's special features:
* You can use any fonts that work with LaTeX, including PostScript
fonts and AmSFonts.
* Slides can be landscape and portrait within the same file.
* Color is supported through PostScript.
* It is a LaTeX style, rather than another format.
* It is compatible with AmS-LaTeX.
* The slides can have a frame and a colored background.
* The magnification can be changed with a single command.
* Overlays can be produced from a single slide environment.
* Accompanying notes, such as the text of a presentation, can be put
outside the slide environments. The slides, notes or both together
can then be typeset in a variety of formats.
Some of these features require a PostScript output device.
FILES:
Inputs:
seminar.sty : The main style file.
xcomment.sty : The macros for omitting notes.
portrait.sty : The portrait style option.
semhelv.sty : The semhelv style option.
semlcmss.sty : The semlcmss style option.
semcolor.sty : The semcolor style option.
semrot.sty : THe semrot style option.
sem-a4.sty : The sem-a4 style option.
slidesec.sty : The slidesec style option.
2up.tex : Macros for printing documents two-up.
2up.sty : The same as 2up.tex, but with .sty extension.
npsfont.sty : Macros for defining new PostScript fonts with the NFSS.
Documentation:
sem-user.dvi : User's guide for seminar.sty.
sem-code.dvi : Documented code for seminar.sty.
xcomment.dvi : Documentation for xcomment.sty
semsampl.tex : A sample document for seminar.sty
sem-read.me : This file.
Sources:
seminar.doc : Documentation and code for seminar.sty
sem-code.tex : For typesetting seminar.doc
sem-user.tex : User's guide for seminar.sty
xcomment.doc : Documentation and code for xcomment.sty
xcomment.tex : For typesetting xcomment.doc
tvz-hax.sty : Hacks for printing the documentation.
GETTING STARTED:
1. Put the input files in a directory where your TeX looks for inputs.
2. Print sem-user.dvi, which is the User's Guide for seminar.sty.
(This should be printed in landscape mode; happens automatically
with dvips.)
(Printing sem-code.dvi, the documented code, is optional.)
3. Read the preface "Getting Started". Follow the instructions carefully.
4. Typeset semsampl.tex.
SOURCES:
The .doc files contain the documentation and code, and use Frank
Mittelbach's doc system. For example, the documentation for seminar.sty
can be typeset by running LaTeX on seminar.man, which inputs seminar.doc.
seminar.sty can be obtained by running LaTeX on Mittelbach's docstrip.tex,
and giving the name seminar 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
seminar.sty package.
MORE ABOUT XCOMMENT.STY:
xcomment.sty, for use with LaTeX v.2.9, permits one to typeset only
selected environments, omitting input outside these environments. The
selected environments become "inverse" comment environments, since
a comment environment such as the one defined in verbatim.sty omits
the material inside the environment and leaves the material outside the
environment. The selected environments also retain their original meaning
with xcomment.sty. The typeset documentation, xcomment.dvi, is included,
but everything you need to know about xcomment.sty in order to use the
seminar document style is including in seminar.dvi.
SEMINAR.STY AND PSTRICKS.TEX:
pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible
with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX and LaTeX. Included are
macros for color, graphics, rotation and overlays.
seminar.sty, combined with the semcolor option, the PSTricks package,
and your favorite macros for including EPS files, make a complete
TeX presentation software package.
You can probably obtain the PSTricks package from wherever you got
the Seminar package. You must install the PSTricks package before
using the semcolor option.
seminar.sty v0.92 will work with pstricks.tex v0.9, and maybe later
versions.
MORE ABOUT NPSFONT.STY:
npsfont.sty contains macros that make it even easier to define new
PostScript fonts with the New Font Selection Scheme. npsfont.sty is
input by the semhelv style option, but it can be used on its own.
The documentation is contained in npsfont.sty.
MORE ABOUT 2UP.TEX:
2up.tex contains macros for printing documents two-up. dvidvi is
generally more sensible tool for this purpose, but 2up.tex is implemented
with TeX macros and allow more flexible hacking, and it is easy to use.
2up.tex is input by seminar.sty's \twoup command, but it can be used
on its own, with most TeX macro packages.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
xcomment.sty borrows much inspiration and some code from Rainer Sch\"opf's
verbatim.doc.
The author is thankful to Frank Mittelbach for his documentation system.
Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz for bits of advice.
COPYING:
Copying of part or all of any file in the seminar.sty 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 neck 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:
Pre v0.91:
Entirely rewritten. Too many changes to list. Note especially
that system of formats and selections has changed.
v0.92:
Mostly bug fixes, plus some extra options. The PSTricks package
is no longer distributed with seminar.sty.
- ------- End of forwarded message -------
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Date: 12 May 92 08:27:09 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: new version of rotating package in UK TeX Archive
Rotation package v1.6
- ---------------------
I have updated the code of my LaTeX `rotating' style (in response to,
most recently, Thomas Liew) to make the rotation of entire floats work
better. This version:
- rotates floats so that they always take a full page (centred
horizontally) and asssume that they are working on an internal
width of \textwidth (for the placement of captions etc)
- contributes normally to the list of tables and list of figures when
floats are rotated
- offers a separate \rotcaption command for when you want to rotate
float contents and caption by themselves
If you want to read my article on the subject, acquire first the
PostScript file `rotating.ps' and print it out. These rotation macros
only work on PostScript devices using dvips or Textures.
The distribution is stored in [tex-archive.latex.contrib.rotating] on
tex.ac.uk (151.143.40.18). All the usual copyleft conditions apply.
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: 12 May 92 09:11:53 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: dvips5.487 in archive
I have placed a copy of the latest dvips in the UK TeX Archive as
[tex-archive.src.unix-archives]dvips5487.tarz_uue
I will not update the `exploded' directory until 5.5 is released.
soon, hopefully
sebastian
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Date: 12 May 92 11:05:35 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: updates in uk tex archive
with apologies to those who have left stuff for the archive in its
CONTRIBUTIONS area and been waiting for it to move, I have just
updated or created the contents of
[tex-archive.drivers.dvipage]
[tex-archive.web.latexspider]
[tex-archive.drivers.xdvi]
[tex-archive.utils.texinfo]
from recent contributions. Dont get excited about dvipage or xdvi, I
think these are not radical new versions. I have also added
[tex-archive.src.unix-archives]xfig2-1-3.tarz_uue
[tex-archive.src.unix-archives]transfig.tarz_uue
and deleted the corresponding exploded directories (since they are
useful only for Unix people)
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: 13 May 92 07:40:54 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: emtex bonus disks in uk tex archive
The contents of the `emTeX bonus disks' prepared for the UK TeX
Archive have been placed online in:
[tex-archive.tex.ms-dos.emtex.bonus]
There are 9 packages which provide some of the commonly-requested
facilities. These are not as well-tested or documented as emTeX
itself, but are packaged in exactly the same way, and should be useful
to many PC-based TeX users. All these packages are supplied as .zip
archives (BOO-encoded) which are unpacked following the same procedure
as the emTeX ones. A .REM file is supplied for use with the `remove'
utility for each package.
The packages are:
dvips Tom Rokicki's dvips program, to translate .dvi files to
PostScript.
morefont If you have installed DVIPS, you will want access to
all the PostScript fonts in your printer from within \TeX\ and
\LaTeX. This package provides the necessary font files.
moremf In March 1992, there was a new release of all the
Computer Modern Roman fonts. This package contains the \METAFONT\
sources.
morebin A selection of useful ancillary programs.
wp2latex WordPerfect 5.0 to \LaTeX\ translator
bm2font Bitmap to Font. Convert eg .PCX files to \TeX\ .pk fonts
for inclusion in \TeX\ documents.
dvi2tty ASCII viewer for dvi files
dviselec Write a subset of a dvi file to a new dvi file
dvidvi Rearrange pages of a dvi file
dviconca Join dvi files together
dvibook Rearrange pages of a dvi file
lacheck Syntax checker for \LaTeX\ documents
moresty A large selection of extra style files for \LaTeX,
including some which can be used with plain \TeX\ as well.
newlatex The current version of em\TeX\ is slightly out of date with
respect to \LaTeX. This package provides new copies of all the
\LaTeX\ files for those who wish to be totally up to date.
nfss As part of the development of a new \LaTeX\ for the 1990s,
this is the New Font Selection Scheme, by Frank Mittelbach and
Rainer Sch\"opf.
psnfss This package builds on the NFSS package by providing a
complete drop-in system for using PostScript fonts with the NFSS.
drivers The source in C of all the dvi driver programs
supplied in MOREBIN. Only for those who need to alter the programs.
A fuller description of the packages can be found in the
LaTeX file *emtex.tex*, which is an expanded and LaTeX-ed copy of the
basic installation guide for emTeX. A prepared PostScript version is
in emtex.ps.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
All these packages are supplied with no warranty or support.
The UK TeX Archive will endeavour to assist with problems, but the user
is advised to treat them in the same spirit as the betatest versions of
the emTeX package proper. Suggestions for additions, changes, etc are
welcome.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: 15 May 92 09:12:29 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: upgrades to Unix Web2c package, eplain, sauter, lucida
I have just upgraded the following compressed tar archives stored in
[tex-archive.src.unix-archives]
in the UK Tex Archive
eplain.tarz_uue Karl Berry`s eplain package 2.1
lucida.tarz_uue Lucida font metrics 1.0
sauter.tarz_uue `Sauter' package for creating new cm fonts 1.3
web2c-5851c.tarz_uue web2c package for Unix compilation of TeX 5.851c
web-5851c.tarz_uue web sources for TeX, MF, to go with previous
I have also updated the exploded directories for Sauter and Eplain
sebastian rahtz
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Date: 15 May 92 09:21:39 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: modes.mf version 1.10
I have installed the latest release of Karl Berry's set of
Metafont mode definitions in
[TEX-ARCHIVE.METAFONT.CONTRIB]
as modes.mf
Sebastian Rahtz
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