UKTeX Digest Thursday, 24 Dec 1992 Volume 92 : Issue 48
UKTeX Digest, Christmas Number
On behalf of the UK TeX Archivists and the UK TeX Users Group,
we wish all our readers a very happy Christmas and New Year
Today's Topics:
{Q&A}:
RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
Re: Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
{Archive News}:
APLWEB and Literate Programming in APL
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David Osborne (University of Nottingham)
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:32:25 +0100
From: Frank Jensen <fj%dk.auc.iesd@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay>
Subject: RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
> \font \mainfont = ps-nbr
> \font \partfont = ps-nbr
> \hyphenchar \partfont = -1
> \def \partno #1{{\partfont #1}}
This code will not work as most users expect. TeX only stores one
copy of a font internally. The \hyphenchar assignment will affect
both \mainfont and \partfont. Try \showthe\hyphenchar\mainfont.
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Frank Jensen, fj@iesd.auc.dk
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Aalborg University
DENMARK
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:02:53 +0000
From: Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax>
Subject: RE: Unhyphenable hyphens
> \font \mainfont = ps-nbr
> \font \partfont = ps-nbr
> \hyphenchar \partfont = -1
> \def \partno #1{{\partfont #1}}
>> This code will not work as most users expect. TeX only stores one
>> copy of a font internally. The \hyphenchar assignment will affect
>> both \mainfont and \partfont. Try \showthe\hyphenchar\mainfont.
My thanks to Frank Jensen for pointing this out; I had worried when I made
the suggestion that this might be the case, but as my esteemed colleagues
in UKTEX-REVIEWERS allowed it to pass without comment, I hoped I was on safe
ground. An experiment confirms that Frank is quite correct in his assertion,
and I therefore offer the following as a work-around (one is usally
recommended to take a renamed copy of the font in circumstances such as
these, but I believe there is a simpler, albeit slightly kludgy, solution):
\font \mainfont = ps-nbr at 655360 sp
\font \partfont = ps-nbr at 655361 sp
\hyphenchar \partfont = -1
\def \partno #1{{\partfont #1}}
Philip Taylor, RHBNC.
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 12:20:00 +0000
From: XRASIMMIE%ie.ucg.bodkin@uk.ac.earn-relay
Subject: Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
Is there a way to include CGM files into LaTeX?
In the same way that one can include encapsulated Postscript via
\BoxedEPSF{} say?
John Simmie: Chemistry Department: University College Galway: Ireland
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 08:11:46 +0000
From: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.westminster>
Subject: Re: Inclusion of CGM files into LaTeX
i recall an article in tugboat by andrews (tb 10(2), 1989)
which described this on a clutch of mainframes, but i
can't recall if it were specifically for latex.
the short answer is 'not exactly'.
anyone got a cgm2ps? it can't be all that difficult.
cgm is not a language in the same sense, although
i recall it does have a fair suite of primitive shapes.
malcolm
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Date: 22 Dec 92 12:02:22 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: (archive availability) APLWEB and Literate Programming in APL
I have put the software described below in the UK TeX
(Internet/Daughter) archive in pub/archive/web/aplweb
sebastian rahtz
Literate programming in APL
and APLWEB
A few years ago, Donald Knuth introduced WEB, a system for
presenting source code and documentation in a single document.
His scheme allows an author to give extended and copious notes
about the intention of the code, along with the code itself, in
a single document.
Most readers will have heard about TeX, the most famous example
of a successful product done this way, and I am sure that there
must be other programming products done with WEB, but I can not
name any others. Now, from the University of Bielefeld comes
APLWEB, a method for presenting APL code in a literate way.
With APLWEB exposition and code may be blended into a single
source document. Two tools, TANGLE and WEAVE, are provided,
which extract the APL executable code and produce TeX source,
respectively.
APLWEB is a means by which one may write an article or book,
and include along with it, in one place, the APL source for the
immediate execution lines and APL functions that accompany it.
The developer of APLWEB is Dr. Christoph von Basum, e-mail
<CvB@erasmus.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>, who has written his Ph.D.
thesis about literate programming in APL. He is the author
of all the C-code and TeX-macros. The ccapl-font was designed
by students at the University of Bielefeld.
This work was communicated to us by Bernhard Strohmeier, whose
e-mail address is <bstrohmeier@erasmus.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>.
Mr. Strohmeier is a Ph.D. student at the University of
Bielefeld, working under the supervision of Professor Peter
Naeve and Dr. Peter Wolf. Mr. Strohmeier is using APLWEB as a
tool to aid in the writing of his doctoral thesis about causal
networks.
The first English language release of this work works with IBM
APL2 and STSC APL. It is designed to run on IBM personal
computers.
Lee Dickey
1992-12-07
- - --
Prof. Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
Internet: ljdickey@math.UWaterloo.ca
ljdickey@math.waterloo.edu
UUCP: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP
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