UKTeX Digest Friday, 12 Mar 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 10
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{Q&A}:
Side-by-Side Setting : Help Wanted
re: tex.ftp
re: tex.ftp
Fixed length records on tex-archive
Re: Fixed length records on tex-archive
Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)
Patching fonts together
Re: Patching fonts together
{Archive News}:
pstricks version 0.93 in uk tex archive
Re: Archive on CD or DAT
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 18:22:31 +0000
From: Stephen Miller <stephen@uk.ac.oxford.vax>
Subject: Side-by-Side Setting : Help Wanted
A colleague wants to be able to set folksongs side by side ie the original on
the left and a translation on the right (his translation is line-by-line so the
number of lines do match). Can anyone advise on the easiest way to do this?
Stephen Miller Oxford University Computing Services
stephen@vax.ox.ac.uk or stephen@oxford.ac.uk
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Date: 08 Mar 1993 12:17:27 -0000
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield>
Subject: re: tex.ftp
Is it the case, or am I misunderstanding this, that tex.ftp is set up
to behave the way that SHSU does, say? Thus, can I retrieve files and obtain
help by communicating with a fileserver?
If so, what address do I send the message to, and what message?
HELP? LIST? GET? SENDME?
What I am getting at is, for the majority(?) of us who don't have FTP and
don't understand FTP-speak, is there any way of communicating with this
machine?
Mike Piff
Dr M J Piff e-mail:
Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Sheffield M.Piff@sheffield.ac.uk
Hicks Building PM1MJP@derwent.shef.ac.uk
Hounsfield Road
SHEFFIELD S3 7RH Telephone: SHEFFIELD (0742) 824431
England
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Date: 08 Mar 1993 12:37:38 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: re: tex.ftp
>
> Is it the case, or am I misunderstanding this, that tex.ftp is set up
> to behave the way that SHSU does, say? Thus, can I retrieve files and obtain
> help by communicating with a fileserver?
yes, you can. but its not very efficient to do so if you have
got any kind of ftp / file transfer access. the mailserver is not
advertised yet, because it (mailserver@ftp.tex.ac.uk) only works with
sites using SMTP, unless they route via Nottingham. Contact Dave
Osborne for details if you really need it
> If so, what address do I send the message to, and what message?
> HELP? LIST? GET? SENDME?
"help" is always a good place to start, and will work with the address
above if your site is talking SMTP
> What I am getting at is, for the majority(?) of us who don't have FTP and
> don't understand FTP-speak, is there any way of communicating with this
> machine?
there are no (?) academic sites in the UK without JANET file transfer
facilities, are there? which is fully suppported by all sites? this
gives you two options
- direct file transfer from uk.ac.tex, which now has a mirror of the
Internet archive (a few problems and gaps, which will be fixed this
week!)
- file transfer via uk.ac.ft-relay
but if your site is not even contemplating a JIPS service, I suggest
you get on the right committee and fight for it. the effort of
learning "FTP-speak" is a) easier than learning JANET rubbish (differs
in each implementation, so far as I can see) and b) applicable to a
much wider domain
and last but not least, do not forget the mail server on uk.ac.tex
which will send you whatever you need
Sebastian
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Date: 09 Mar 1993 11:31:52 -0000
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield>
Subject: Fixed length records on tex-archive
Most of the contents of
[tex-archive.systems.pc.emtex.betatest]
and
[tex-archive.systems.pc.emtex.bonus]
are now inaccessible to PC users because they are in fixed-length record
format---makes sense, when you think of it, that emTeX should only be available
to non-PC users.
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Date: 09 Mar 1993 12:00:42 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Fixed length records on tex-archive
> are now inaccessible to PC users because they are in fixed-length
> record format---makes sense, when you think of it, that emTeX
> should only be available to non-PC users.
they are inaccessible to that portion of the community which is
limited to JANET file transfer, and does not have a Vax (if you do,
use CODE=FAST on the transfer). This has absolutely nothing to do with
their useability by PC users.
sebastian
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 10:59:28 +0700
From: R.A.Reese"R.A.Reese" <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.cc.sequent>
Subject: Subdivisions in list (LaTeX 2.09)
I am by now innured to the fact that if I want to do something that
LaTeX objects to, then I am probably looking at it the wrong way.
Here is the problem and my solution in the hope it may be of use to
someone else or of interest to the LaTeX 3 development.
I am producing a long enumerated list and wanted to put subdivisions
within the list. So I tried
\documentstyle{article}
[...]
\item ...
\subsection*{Next lot}
\item
and found that LaTeX just hangs. Using emTeX (and new LaTeX with NFSS)
it must get into some very tight loop, as there is no disk activity and
I can't break in. I have to reboot and when I go in again the log file
is empty and the dvi has not been changed, so no evidence. I've also
run it on SUN sparc LaTeX and found it is hanging on the \subsection*
but doesn't fill up the log with iterations.
- -----
The pragmatic solution is to make the sections into separate lists but
preserve the list counter. There's no provision for this; I guess that
enumi etc are re-allocated as new counters every time a list is started.
It took a little fiddling as the LaTeX User Guide only mentions \value
in the reference section, not at pp 91/92. However, this works
\newcounter{lastitem} % in preamble
[...]
\setcounter{lastitem}{\value{enumi}}
\end{description}
\subsection*{Next lot}
\begin{enumerate}
\setcounter{enumi}{\value{lastitem}}
\item ...
(R.) Allan Reese Janet: r.a.reese@uk.ac.hull
Head of Applications Direct voice: +44 482 465296
Computer Centre Voice messages: +44 482 465685
Hull University Fax: +44 482 466441
Hull HU6 7RX, U.K.
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Date: 11 Mar 1993 14:42:17 -0000
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@uk.ac.sheffield>
Subject: Patching fonts together
Does anyone know of any tools for taking x.tfm, x.pk, y.tfm and y.pk and
producing xy.tfm and xy.pk containing x\Union y?
And I don't mean virtual fonts!!!!!!
Preferably, the program should map each character to a different character
code. I am thinking of the output of programs like BM2FONT and MFPIC which
is highly fragmented because the number of characters in each font can be
very small.
Mike Piff
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Date: 11 Mar 1993 14:57:56 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Patching fonts together
>
> Does anyone know of any tools for taking x.tfm, x.pk, y.tfm and y.pk and
> producing xy.tfm and xy.pk containing x\Union y?
>
> And I don't mean virtual fonts!!!!!!
why not? because you don't want the lots of little files? there is
little other argument against it. virtual fonts are a Good Thing
> Preferably, the program should map each character to a different character
> code. I am thinking of the output of programs like BM2FONT and MFPIC which
> is highly fragmented because the number of characters in each font can be
> very small.
if i were you, i'd put the effort in persuading Friedhelm Sowa to make
it an option in bm2font itself. i'd imagine it would be trivial for
him, and would save you lots of work in even more little utility
programs
Sebastian
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Date: 08 Mar 1993 10:37:47 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: pstricks version 0.93 in uk tex archive
ftp.tex.ac.uk:pub/archive/graphics/pstricks
tex.ac.uk:[tex-archive.graphics.pstricks]
[will be mirrored to SHSU in a day or so]
X-From: Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU>
[...]
If using this with seminar.sty, you must also upgrade to seminar.sty
v0.93 or the frame styles in semcolor.sty won't work.
There are lots of changes, once again, and you are encouraged to
upgrade, so that you can keep up with the user interface.
[....]
Many of the changes have been distributed previously as
pst-beta.tex, pst-char.tex, pst-grad.tex and pstricks.bug.
Requests for more features will be ignored. PSTricks is already
too big for its own good.
Tim
Timothy Van Zandt (609)258-4050 tvz@Princeton.EDU (NeXTMail)
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Date: 09 Mar 1993 09:06:28 +0000
From: spqr@uk.ac.york.minster
Subject: Re: Archive on CD or DAT
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Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 23 Feb 93 21:02:59 GMT
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