UKTeX Digest Friday, 11 Dec 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 46
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Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
Re: Thorn and Eth - recent developments?
unix archives
Re: unix archives
Re: unix archives
Re: unix archives
RE: unix archives
Re: unix archives
Re: Updating Latex
canon drivers
TEX for a SparcStation
Re: TEX for a SparcStation
{Archive News}:
additions to UK TeX Internet Archive
{Announcements}:
TeX and TUG News latest issue
First-ever Scottish UK-TuG meeting (March, 1993)
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Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and
David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
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Date: 08 Dec 92 12:16:36 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Thorn and Eth - recent developments?
> I've met a student who wanted to use thorn in his dissertation -
> and had failed with all software so far. Our Word-for-Windows for
> example allows him to pick thorn on a symbol table but then prints
> an entirely different character on the (PS) printer. Have other
> people hit this bug?
Windows is a giant bug in itself
> solution then was to kern a bar and a b together. Has anyone since
> created a font containing thorn, eth and other "furrin" characters
> that I can download and make generally available? Are the DC fonts
> relevant to this? I've seen references to them but haven't followed
i cant recall offhand whether DC has a thorn. i think not. Julian
Bradfield's Old English font has it, though, as do decent PostScript fonts
> of the Lucida Bright and Maths fonts. LBR contains thorn (and eth)
> on the printed description but they get pushed out in the TeX
> encoding vector. As I understand it, an Adobe font contains 253
> characters but a TeX font can't have that many. What is the
> recommended solution? Should I write an encoding vector to select
> the missing characters and generate a "B" font of the one's that
> TeX rejected? Is this where virtual fonts come into their own -
> since the PFB obviously contains all characters but the TFM
> contains only the subset?
sadly, its a two-stage job. you have to
a) tell PostScript the character is available, if its not normally
there; this may mean changing the encoding vector in PS. you can
do this on the fly with a header file, or permanently to (a copy
of) the font (using Y&Y's supplied utility)
b) tell TeX where the thorn is. since there is no `defined' place for
a thorn, virtual fonts are fairly irrelevant there. if the thorn
ends up at character 245, then
\def\thorn\char'245
is all you need
> Finally, re the great on-going debate. I put pages of CM and
> Lucida side by side in the tearoom. Opinions were fairly evenly
> divided, but more people expressed a preference for CM as seen,
> though several said they'd prefer Lucida with increased leading.
were you comparing Lucida Math or Lucida Bright with CM, or the
combination of all the Lucidas?
s
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Date: 08 Dec 92 16:10:45 +0000
From: M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield
Subject: unix archives
I have reason to believe that the bitmapped fonts in
[tex-archive.src.unix-archives]
are corrupt. I cannot check the filename, as TEX is down yet again, but
it is something like psfonts.tar_uue or possibly adobefonts.tar_uue.
I have printed out some of these fonts, and I have noticed the following
when previewed using testfont.tex.
Avant Garde Oblique pagko.300pk j and J malformed
Bookman Light Italic pbkli.300pk H, N, f, j malformed
Bookman Demibold Italic pbkdi.300pk f, j malformed
Palatino Italic pplri.300pk f, j malformed
Palatino Bold Italic pplbi.300pk f looks odd
I have not tried at other resolutions.
Mike Piff
Dr M J Piff e-mail:
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Sheffield M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
Hicks Building M.Piff@pa.shef.ac.uk
Hounsfield Road
SHEFFIELD S3 7RH Telephone: SHEFFIELD (0742) 768555
England Ext. 4431
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Date: 08 Dec 92 16:33:25 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: unix archives
> I have reason to believe that the bitmapped fonts in
>
> [tex-archive.src.unix-archives]
>
> are corrupt. I cannot check the filename, as TEX is down yet again, but
> it is something like psfonts.tar_uue or possibly adobefonts.tar_uue.
if you can unpack the archive, and get *anything* out, this is not our
concern. please report problems with the *product* to its author, Karl
Berry (karl@cs.umb.edu). I suspect he will reply that these fonts are
intended for previewing only, and it doesnt matter about the
malformation.
i'd recommend using ps2pk to create preview bitmaps dynamically,
instead of this canned set of bitmaps
sebastian
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Date: 08 Dec 92 16:40:57 +0000
From: M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield
Subject: Re: unix archives
> if you can unpack the archive, and get *anything* out, this is not our
> concern. please report problems with the *product* to its author, Karl
> Berry (karl@cs.umb.edu). I suspect he will reply that these fonts are
> intended for previewing only, and it doesnt matter about the
> malformation.
Like a "j" that looks like a dotted comma---yes, really comma sized---or an
"f" without an ascender?
I suspect that this archive is corrupted in some way.
> i'd recommend using ps2pk to create preview bitmaps dynamically,
> instead of this canned set of bitmaps
I don't have access to a postscript device, and was hoping to use these
as PK fonts on a laserjet connected to a PC.
What does ps2pk do?
Mike
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Date: 08 Dec 92 16:55:21 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: unix archives
> Like a "j" that looks like a dotted comma---yes, really comma sized---or an
> "f" without an ascender?
> I suspect that this archive is corrupted in some way.
if you can unpack it without warnings from tar or compress, its Karl's
copy which was corrupt before we got it...
> What does ps2pk do?
takes a PostScript Type1 outline font and creates a TeX .pk bitmap
font. you have to have the PostScript font source, of course. the
cheapest way to get the standard ones is to buy a copy of ATM. if you
have Corel Draw, that can export excellent Type1 fonts.
The UK TeX Archive (daughter unix service) stocks ps2pk in various
forms, including DOS binaries.
sebastian
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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 92 10:29:17 +0000
From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <TeX@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs>
Subject: RE: unix archives
In message <MAILQUEUE-101.921208161045.571@hicks1.shef.ac.uk> of 8 Dec 92
16:10:45 GMT, M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield wrote:
> are corrupt. I cannot check the filename, as TEX is down yet again, but
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh? TEX was rebooted with some changed system parameters on Sunday
afternoon. Apart from this 10min interruption, and two others about
5--6 weeks ago due to power outages, TEX has been continually reachable
over JANET for the past three months, since the last scheduled downtime.
Connection from the Internet has been almost as good, although there
have been a couple of occasions on which it was found that the IP server
daemon was being a CPU hog: these have each been fixed as soon as
discovered, certainly within less than a working day.
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs (or System@uk.ac.tex)
BITNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@ac.uk
INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
UUCP: {mcsun,uknet,uunet}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex
Smail: School of Electrical Engineering & Science, Royal Military
College of Science, Shrivenham, SWINDON SN6 8LA, U.K.
Phone: Swindon (0793) 785252 (UK), +44-793-785252 (International)
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Date: 09 Dec 92 11:49:20 +0000
From: M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield
Subject: Re: unix archives
> Huh? TEX was rebooted with some changed system parameters on Sunday
> afternoon. Apart from this 10min interruption, and two others about
> 5--6 weeks ago due to power outages, TEX has been continually reachable
> over JANET for the past three months, since the last scheduled downtime.
Almost every day I tried to call TeX for interactive login
last week I could not connect.
The same has happened on and off this week. For instance, only yesterday
I had trouble in the middle of the day.
Something is clearly wrong somewhere, though I have had no trouble so far today
Mike
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Date: 08 Dec 92 17:45:57 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Updating Latex
> My aim is to make AmsLaTex/AmsTeX available to users of our
[...]
> and run initex to create a new version of lplain.fmt.
>
> The next step is to run virtex to produce a core dump: OK.
not OK. forget this step
> The 'undump' command which follows this fails.
just use the .fmt file you created, with no further ado. note that if
you make an alias of virtex called "latex", and run it, it will look
for latex.fmt automatically. very convenient
sebastian
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Date: 09 Dec 92 09:42:08 +0000
From: A.G.Jones@uk.ac.sheffield
Subject: canon drivers
Is there a driver for Emtex, for canon bubblejet printers (bj10ex,
bj20 etc.), and if so what is the spec in terms of output and which
fonts does it use etc.?
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 15:20:00 +0000
From: SVadera <S.Vadera@mcs.salf.ac.uk>
Subject: TEX for a SparcStation
I'd be grateful if you could tell me how I could obtain
Tex + dvi previewer for a SparcStation (either for Suntools or OpenWindows).
Thanks in advance
Sunil Vadera
Dept of Maths & Computer Science
University of Salford
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Date: 11 Dec 92 09:57:45 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: TEX for a SparcStation
> I'd be grateful if you could tell me how I could obtain
> Tex + dvi previewer for a SparcStation (either for Suntools or OpenWindows).
after Xmas I hope to find time to make a `canned' Sparc TeX setup,
with binaries and everything ready to go. until I, or someone else,
offers such a (tested!) system, you have to roll your own with the
sources.
- if you have never used TeX or installed it before, order a tape
from Dave Osborne (see end of weekly UKTeX mailing) and follow
instructions
- if you have some experience of TeX, acquire using ftp the web and
web2c compressed tar archives from the UK TeX Archive. unpack them
(in the same directory) and get stuck into READMEs. Its pretty easy
these days
JANET: uk.ac.tex:[tex-archive.src.unix-archives]web*
Internet: ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/systems/unix/web2c
sebastian
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Date: 11 Dec 92 11:17:49 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: additions to UK TeX Internet Archive
In the last 6 weeks or so since I last announced additions to the UK
TeX (Internet/Daughter) Archive on ftp.tex.ac.uk, the following
changes have been made:
What Where
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update of sf2pk package systems/pc/sf2pk21b.zip
Latest FAQ from comp.text.tex help/FAQ-of-comp.text.tex-1.32
supplement to same help/FAQ-supplement-Dec.92
All back issues of TeX and TUG News digests/ttn
latest list of Metafonts help/metafonts.lst
(New) package for Swedish TeX languages/swedish/swetex
(New) preprocessor for flow charts into support/flow
LaTeX
(New) latest (3.0?) port of dvitovdu dviware/dvgt
current release of MFPIC graphics/mfpic
(New) clean up BibTeX files bibliography/bibtex/utils/bibclean
current release of PSBOX macros/generic/psbox
latest release of dvips (5.497) dviware/dvips
latest release of Lollipop format macros/lollipop
latest release of eplain format macros/eplain
latest release of Revtex styles macros/latex/styles/contrib/revtex
latest betatest of emTeX drivers systems/pc/emtex/betatest/dvidrv_14s.zi
p
I apologize for the terseness of the descriptions; this is just
intended as a pointer in case you want to look more closely. Most of
these packages have been announced on various lists. The directory
structure should indicate the general aim of these things. Apologies
also, of course, to all the un-named authors!
Various style files for LaTeX have been silently updated.
All of these packages will, of course, filter onto the UK TeX JANET/mail
Archive on uk.ac.tex, but readers should be aware that this process is
not (yet) automatic (the two machines have different filestores), so
it may take a little while.
Sebastian Rahtz
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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 92 15:14:59 -0500
From: Chris Carruthers <CJC@acadvm1.uottawa.ca>
Subject: TeX and TUG News latest issue
The latest issue of TeX and TUG News is now available for anonymous ftp
at rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) as soft/tex/digests/ttn/ttn1n3.*,
at niord.shsu.edu (192.92.115.8), in directory ttn, ttn1n3.* (in VMSSpeak
[FILESERV.TTN]TTN1N3.*)
and at tex.ac.uk (134.151.40.18) as [TEX-ARCHIVE.DIGESTS.TTN]TTN1N3.* (as of
1992.12.7 it is not yet available at tex.ac.uk but should be any day now).
In addition, all previous issues have been slightly modified and renamed
to make it easier to retrieve them with wildcards (e.g. to retrieve all
of volume 1: 'mget ttn1*'). The convention is that all names start with
the letters 'ttn' followed by a number representing the volume followed by
the letter 'n' ('n' for number) followed by the issue number, followed by a
'.', followed by an extension---usually 'tex' or 'sty'. This naming
convention also corresponds with dek's suggestion in the TeXbook (p.278 in
my copy).
Chris Carruthers, Informatics Product Support, University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario Canada and ttn roustabout.
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 19:04:43 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: First-ever Scottish UK-TuG meeting (March, 1993)
TeX for non-American languages
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MetaFont in Theory and Practice
The U.K. TeX Users' Group are pleased to announce their first ever
Scottish Conference, to take place at the University of Glasgow on
March 29th--31st, 1993. The theme of the conference is the use of TeX
and MetaFont for languages other than American English. It is hoped
that Dominik Wujastyk, for example, will talk on the development
of the British English hyphenation patterns produced by himself and
Graham Toal, and on his use of TeX and MetaFont for typesetting Sanskrit
texts; that Bernard Gaulle will present `good typesetting practice' for
French texts; and that Yannis Haralambous will discuss the various exotic
languages which he typesets in TeX and for which he has developed the
most beautiful fonts.
The Conference is scheduled to last three days, but the first of these
is purely for travel and socialisation; we assemble late Monday afternoon,
and adjourn for the Conference dinner that same evening. On Tuesday,
a distinguished panel of invited speakers will present a variety of
papers on the use of TeX and MetaFont for non-American languages, and
there will be plenty of time for discussion and questions. On Wednesday,
we offer for the first time in the U.K. two tutorials on the use of MetaFont,
both in practice (e.g. `how do I build a complete set of Computer Modern
fonts for a new laser printer which we have just acquired?') and in theory
(`How would I go about designing and implementing an entirely new font in
MetaFont, for a language which has never before been printed using TeX?')
In order to get an accurate estimate of potential numbers, which will
allow us to make an early reservaton with the University and keep costs
to a minimum, it would be appreciated if those who would hope to attend
could communicate immediately with the conference organiser, preferably
through the medium of electronic mail: please send a brief message
indicating your interest to:
<P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vax> (JANET/UK)
<P.Taylor@Vax.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk> (Internet/rest of world)
A more formal announcement, including full details of costs, will be
distributed as soon as likely numbers are known.
Philip Taylor, RHBNC, University of London.
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