UKTeX Digest Friday, 31 Jul 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 29
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Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Re: Co ordination of TeX on multiple systems.
equation builders
Getting to Prague
gopher access to info on UK TeX Archive
Nepali?
Source of PostScript fonts?
More about Prague
Re: More about Prague
{Archive News}:
uktex-specific version of TeX FAQ
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 11:22:00 +0100
From: Max Calvani - Italy <FISICA%it.unipd.astrpd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: Re: Co ordination of TeX on multiple systems.
>as a (very new) beginner to TeX I am trying to coordinate TeX on several
>systems at Leicester - the systems are
>
>Macintosh - OzTeX
>IBM PC clones - EmTeX
>Sun - the standard system
>Silicon Graphics - pass on this one, but I guess the standard unix system
>
>we are trying to standardize on a dvi to ps program, which is ``best''
>
>out of
>
>dvi2ps
>dvitps
>dvitops
>dvips
>
>have I missed any? are any of these regarded as ``standard''.
>to help, I would like to be able to use don wards changebar system
You forgot psprint. My experience (on VMS) is that dvips is the best and
well supported. Max
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 11:35:05 +0000
From: Mark Gallagher <markga@uk.ac.hull.ee.comms>
Subject: equation builders
Dear All,
I am not sure if this should form part of the discussion on UKTeX, but
one utility that is crying out to be on the achive server is a
suitable equation builder.
Obviously, an equation builder under emacs, or a similar editor could
be made with a set of .el macros (no I'm not volunteering to write
them). But a really good equation builder would run under a GUI of
some sort and export as TeX etc.
Ok so, I haven't got an original idea as enterprising souls have
beaten me to the market-place.....! But what about a public domain
equation builder!!!
The commercial ones that I know of are:
MathType (MSDOS/Win 3.x) $250 <---- good
EquationBuilder (NeXTStep) $50+ <---- This is v. good
But I don't know of an X-Windows versions
EquationBuilder is available as a demo (runs for 2 mins) from
nova.cc.purdue.edu, cs.orst.edu and good old uk.ac.doc.src here in the
uk for pad users and those souls who cannot get onto nsf.sun or
ft-relay!!
However, I haven't tried archie yet for PD equation builders, but if
any come to light... how about using some disk space and having them
available on uk.ac.tex!
Mark Gallagher
University of Hull
+44 482 465063
markga@comms.ee.hull.ac.uk
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 17:17:49 +0000
From: Peter Ilieve <peter@uk.co.memex>
Subject: Getting to Prague
As a digression from hard technical questions and lists of wizzo new
things in the archive has anyone done much thinking about getting to
Prague in September?
I am not too keen on going by coach, which leaves plane or train.
I have rung a few people and it seems you can fly from London or Amsterdam
(which are about equally accessible to me in Scotland) for about \pounds180,
with one fare from Campus Travel of \pounds129 Gatwick--Prague.
There is also now an old fogey's InterRail card, \pounds180 for 15 days,
but the catch with this is that it is not valid in the country you buy it in,
and you have to have lived for 6 months where you buy it. This means I
still have to pay extra to get to the UK boundary. I don't have train
times yet.
With the number of people going there ought to be scope for arranging
some sort of group discount, possibly even by joining with Dutch folk
and going via Amsterdam.
Can anyone beat these fares or suggest any more radical alternatives?
Peter Ilieve peter@memex.co.uk
PS. The motivation for cheap fares is that while my firm will pay for the
conference, they don't want to pay for travel for fear of a rush of
claims for exotic foreign holidays disguised as training :-)
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Date: 31 Jul 92 09:47:16 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: gopher access to info on UK TeX Archive
if anyone reading this runs a gopher service, can I ask that they add a
new link somewhere, containing:
Name=UK TeX Archive
Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/archive
Host=ftp.tex.ac.uk
and see what they get? i'd appreciate feedback on the usefulness and
so on, if people get it working.
if you dont have gopher, and have never heard of it, ignore this
message. i will make a proper announcement of interactive browsing of
TeX information from the UK TeX Archive as soon as I am sure things
are working and stable
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:05:40 +0000
From: Tim Bradshaw <tim.bradshaw@uk.ac.edinburgh>
Subject: Nepali?
Has anyone done any work with TeX and Nepali? I'm interested in
both getting TeX to deal with it and getting an editor to do so, both
of which look to be non-trivial, so I don't want to reinvent the
wheel. Even if no-one's done anything with TeX, do there exist any
reasonable quality fonts?
- --tim
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:09:14 +0000
From: Adrian F Clark <alien@uk.ac.essex>
Subject: Source of PostScript fonts?
Having just acquired a PostScript printer with a disc, I'm looking for
a few extra fonts: Baskerville, Bembo, etc. I know there are Adobe
versions of these, but can anyone tell me where to buy them from in
the UK?
Many thanks in advance.
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: Fri, 31 Jul 92 14:17:22 +0000
From: Peter Ilieve <peter@uk.co.memex>
Subject: More about Prague
A point to watch; I discovered that the Czech authorities require that
your passport be valid for 6 months beyond the time when you enter
the country. Mine of course runs out a few weeks short of this.
No visa is required.
British Rail assure me that the quickest route by train from London
to Prague is via Paris, which seems odd if you look at a map.
It is the only route they sell tickets for. Times:
London Paris Prague Prague Paris London
09:15 17:23 13:26 07:04
22:58 15:33 07:56 14:46
I would be interested in hearing from any reader in the Nertherlands
how they would get from say Rotterdam or Amsterdam to Prague by train.
Perhaps the answer is the traditional `I wouldn't start from here.' :-)
Peter Ilieve peter@memex.co.uk
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Date: 31 Jul 92 13:55:06 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: More about Prague
LIST_SERVER@UK.AC.TEX writes:
> British Rail assure me that the quickest route by train from London
> to Prague is via Paris, which seems odd if you look at a map.
it seemed to me when I looked that a typical train price was more
or less the same as the air fare, unless you were a yoof. and then you
have to eat for 24 hours while rumbling through the hinterland
did anyone pay Prague by any clever means other than bank transfer of
funds? that seemed arcane and expensive but i reluctantly did it
anyway.
s
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Date: 27 Jul 92 16:26:06 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: uktex-specific version of TeX FAQ
I have put my UKTeX-specific version of the comp.text.tex `Frequently
Asked Questions' about TeX in the uk tex archive as
[TEX-ARCHIVE.DOC]UKTEX-FAQ.TXT
this is the source of the information promulgated by the Aston WAIS
service for TeX. It can be translated into a (horrible) LaTeX-able
version (called x.tex) with this Unix script:
echo \\documentstyle[]{csart} > x.tex
echo \\begin{document} >> x.tex
echo \\title{Frequently Asked Questions about \\TeX \(UK Specific\)} >> x.tex
echo \\author{Sebastian Rahtz} >> x.tex
echo \\date{July 26th 1992} >> x.tex
echo \\maketitle >> x.tex
echo \\tableofcontents\\small >> x.tex
cat tex.faq | sed 's/@question\(.*\)/\\end{verbatim}\\section\1}\\begin{verbati
m}/' \
| tr '\002' '\012' | tail +2 | sed '/^\}/d' >> x.tex
echo \\end{verbatim} >> x.tex
echo \\end{document} >> x.tex
Comments very welcome
Sebastian
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